President Bola Tinubu has revealed his plan for the agricultural sector. He said his administration will create agricultural hubs throughout the nation to increase production and engage in value-added processing. Tinubu disclosed this Monday while delivering his inaugural address at Eagle Square, Abuja. He said rural income will be secured by commodity exchange boards, guaranteeing…
A young man identified as Christian Ugbede Abuka, has d!ed in an auto crash two days after he completed his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) program in Kwara State. It was gathered that Christian collected his NYSC certificate on Thursday, May 25, 2025. The accident was said to have occurred in Yagba West Local Government…
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday signed into law a controversial anti-gay bill, his office, and the country’s parliament said, introducing draconian measures against homosexuality that have been described as among the world’s harshest. Museveni “has assented to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023. It now becomes the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023,” a statement posted on the…
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has slammed the death penalty on phone snatchers in Kano State. Ganduje, through the Kano State Security Council, on Sunday, declared phone snatching as armed robbery, and any individual or group caught in the act will be treated with the death penalty. The outgoing Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Malam Muhammad…
GIOTV reports that the Lagos branch of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria has named Aransiola Kudus as the acting Chairman. Kudus was named the acting chairman following a court ruling. Earlier, the Lagos state government had suspended RTEAN activities in the state, dissolved its elected leadership, and established a 25-member park management committee…
GIOTV reports that the Nigerian Senate has amended the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) act — increasing the “ways and means borrowing” threshold for the federal government. During an emergency session held on Saturday, the senate raised the limit from a 5 percent threshold to a maximum of 15 percent that the government can get…
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has described the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), as the worst in the history of Nigeria, saying the outgoing president “must be told that he failed woefully and Nigerians are feeling the impact of that failure because we are all suffering.” He said the president plunged…
Barely 48 hours to the May 29 inauguration of the incoming administration, the federal government on Friday unveiled the long-awaited Nigeria Air, five years after its launch in London. Haidi Sirika, the outgoing Minister of Aviation, speaking at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja said the operation of local and international flights will commence…
Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former minister of petroleum resources, has made some revelations about herself. She told an Abuja High Court that she has not been in Nigeria since May 2015 because of cancer treatment. This was revealed in a writ of summons against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the attorney-general of the…
Seun Kuti, the Grammy-nominated afrobeat musician, has recounted his experience in police detention. The singer was remanded at the State Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department, SCIID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos on the orders of the Yaba Chief Magistrate Court for assaulting a police officer in a viral video. Giotv reported that Kuti was finally granted bail…