The global population of the world is now at a staggering 8 billion, the United Nations revealed on Tuesday. The United Nations said the global milestone signals major improvements in public health that have lowered the risk of death and increased life expectancy but the moment is also a clarion call for humanity to look…
Twitter has announced it will be removing the “twitter for iphone & twitter for android” watermarks. The announcement was made by Twitter owner, Elon Musk on Monday. He called the watermarks ‘a waste of compute power’. His tweet read: “And finally we will stop adding what device a tweet was written on (waste of screen…
Popular socio-political activist, Deji Adeyanju has revealed the people the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN targeted with its naira redesign policy. He said the policy was targeted at the opposition political parties. Adeyanju said the CBN policy makes it difficult for the opposition to move money around with the elections around the corner. Speaking with…
Governor Nasir El-Rufai has called on the federal government to remove fuel subsidy immediately. The Kaduna state governor spoke at the “State-of-the-State” session at the on-going NESG, yesterday in Abuja, according to DailyPost. When asked during the session that what should be the priority of the government, the governor said, “remove fuel subsidy immediately.” The…
A 24-year-old man identified as Clement Joseph of Koropka, Chanchaga, suburb of Minna have been arrested by the Niger State Police Command for allegedly posing as a medical doctor and impregnating four females in the state. Joseph was arrested on Saturday, 6th of November, 2022 based on a tip-off to the police. The state Police…
Five persons, including a traditional ruler, Ignitus Asor, were killed as gunmen stormed Obudi Agwa community in the Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State on Monday, November 14. Armed youths stormed the king’s palace where a community matter was being discussed and opened fire indiscriminately. The traditional ruler, two palace chiefs, and two other…
The naira exchanged N780/$1 on Monday, 14th November 2022. This comes after the naira had last Friday recorded significant gains exchanging N680/$1. This is according to information from black market traders who spoke to Nairametrics. Meanwhile, the exchange rate still varies across various locations and also depends on the volume of transaction. Some FX traders…
Goods worth N19.5m were destroyed following a fire outbreak at a shopping complex in Ilorin in the early hours of Monday, November 14. The fire burnt 15 shops in a shopping complex comprising 20 shops at Atiba-Iyalamu Oja-Tuntun Area, in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State. The spokesperson of the state fire service,…
King Charles III has celebrated his first birthday as monarch after turning 74 on Monday. He was greeted with ceremonial gun salutes booming across the British capital to mark his first birthday as monarch. The former prince of Wales has thrown himself into his new role following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II,…
A tricycle operator was allegedly beaten to death by his colleague during a misunderstanding between the operators in the Oke-Aro Community of Akure South Local Government Area of Ondo State over the weekend. According to reports, the unidentified tricycle operator and his colleague had a heated argument that degenerated into a fight leading to one of…