Nigeria

Nigeria’s foreign reserve has depreciated by $544million in the last one week. According to Daily Independent, figures posted on the website of the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN shows the nation’s foreign reserves stood at $35,740,495,640 as at December 11, but fell to $35,196,352,296 as at last week, December 18. ...

A Nigerian tissue seller is being praised in Spain as a good Samaritan after he returned 16 thousand Euros he found in a briefcase that fell from a car. 35 year old Peter Angelina, who makes a living selling tissue paper at a traffic light junction at the corner of ...

These two are both popular artiste are single, they are having a conversation on groupies they slept with… Can you guess who?

The United Nations revealed that, the infected UN peacekeeper was tested positive to the disease on Wednesday, December 3, 2014 and the diagnosis was announced by the organization the next day. UN said the infected soldier will be flown to Netherlands for treatment. Inge Freriksen, a spokesperson for the Dutch ...

The United States has announced the cancellation of the training of a battalion of the Nigeria Army, at the request of the Federal Government. It said that the first two phases of the training were conducted between April and August, 2014, noting that it had provided untrained civilian with basic ...

The Federal Executive Council yesterday approved the purchase of N9.2bn worth of cooking stoves and ‘wonder bags’ for rural women under the National Clean Cooking Scheme. Speaking with state house correspondence after the FEC meeting, the Supervising Minister of Information, Dr. Nurudeen Muhammed said the scheme which is a federal ...

Nigerians in Uyo pictured struggling to buy the N500 ticket for the Nigeria-South Africa match happening in Uyo, Akwa Ibom this evening.

Following the continued drop in oil price in international market, the Federal government yesterday announced the introduction of some austerity measures such as tax introduction on luxury goods such as champagne, jets, amongst other, to be implemented to reduce the effect of the continued oil price decline on the Nigerian ...

The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, a body of Nigerian priest, paid a visit to Pres. Jonathan yesterday at the State House to express concern over increasing attacks by Boko Haram members in the North East. The groups president and Archbishop of Jos diocese, Bishop Ignatius Kaigama, who spoke with ...

The Body of Benchers, whose responsibility is to admit and call successful students of the Nigerian Law School to the bar, has warned Nigerians to desist from begging for the students who failed their final Bar examination. The Nigerian Law School had recorded mass failure in her 2013/2014 final Bar ...

The Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Professor John Idoko, announced that about 3.2 million Nigerians are living with the HIV virus but that about 40% of that number are not aware of their status. He said this at the 2014 NACA/MDG medical outreach ...

A surprising country�has�topped Google’s rankings for searching for pictures of gay sex. Anti-gay laws and strong social stigma appear to be doing nothing to abate the curiosity of everyday people�� with Kenya’s searches for gay sex outranking those of all Western countries. Kenya�tops the Google trends rankings for both ‘gay ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is hoping to announce later on this week that Nigeria and Senegal are free of Ebola after 42 days with no infections. The 42 days is the standard period for declaring an outbreak over, twice the maximum 21-day incubation period of the virus. � According ...

South African authorities have confiscated yet another US$5.7 million arms money from Nigeria. And this is happening nearly three weeks after seizing $9.3 million in cash transported by two Nigerians and an Israeli for arms purchase. A transaction that the news�sparked outrage in Nigeria after it emerged the private jet ...

The Federal government has declared Monday October 6th and Tuesday October 7th as public holidays to mark the Islamic celebration, Id-El-Kabir

Investigators in South Africa have dismissed Nigerian government’s explanations of the purpose of the $9.3 million cash seized from two Nigerians and an Israeli as �flawed and riddled with discrepancies”. The suspects told South African authorities that the money was meant for the procurement of arms for Nigerian intelligence agencies. ...

South African police are investigating two Nigerians and an Israeli citizen who tried to bring $9.3 million in cash into the country illegally, a spokesman said on Monday. There were suspicions that the money could be meant for arms. The Nigerians, coming from Abuja, were not identified, according to a ...

The Super Falconets of Nigeria have lost�the Under 20 Women’s World Cup to Germany. An extra-time winner by Lena Petermann was enough to deny them the FIFA U20 Women World Cup trophy which took place in Montreal’s Olympic Stadium in Canada as they were beaten 1-0. . This is the ...

Davido was turned back last week from Cameroon, for fear of Ebola, which has killed and infected several people in Nigeria. The chartered aircraft of the ‘Skelewu‘ crooner was turned back because flights originating from Nigeria were not cleared to land in that country. ‎A source told NaijaVibe that, his ...

On May 7, 2015, a Nigerian, Chuka Umunna, could make history by becoming the first black Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Born in London in 1978, Chuka was bred in the UK. His late father, Bennett, hailed from Anambra State while his Irish mother, Patricia, is a solicitor. Co-incidentally, ...