Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Nigeria wins US green light for $1 bn attack helicopters

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The US State Department has confirmed  the sale of 12 Viper attack helicopters which worth almost one billion dollars to Nigeria, despite concerns over basic human rights. The buying  of AH-1Z Vipers consists of guidance and night imaginative and prescient imaging structures in addition to training  for an predicted 997 million bucks. It “will better … Read more

Due to a power outage, huge regions of Nigeria are without electric service.

Energy crisis

Nigeria’s president apologized a few weeks ago for the previous time the country had a power outage. For a few hours, many Nigerians were without energy provided by the government. An advisor to the president claims that a “act of vandalism” on a transmission tower is to blame this time. On Friday evening, distribution companies … Read more

Nigeria ‘investigating’ deadly air strike in Niger

Niger

ABUJA – Nigeria’s military said Monday that it was probing reports from neighbouring Niger that it accidentally killed children in an air strike targeting an armed group at the border. Troops have been deployed to northwest Nigeria, where heavily-armed criminals known as bandits terrorise communities, forcing more than 70,000 to flee into southern Niger, according … Read more

Nigerian artist uses her body as a canvas to create portraits

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Oni Mary Ayomide, a talented makeup artist, uses a variety of mediums to express her talent around the world, Ayomide of Nigeria uses her body as the canvas. She prefers to use eyeliners, foundation, and other cosmetics instead of pencils and paint. Ayomide stated while speaking to the media, “I don’t get all my paintings … Read more

Fed says central bank digital dollar could offer benefits

Fed

WASHINGTON: An official US digital currency could offer potential benefits to American consumers and businesses, but it is not clear they would outweigh the potential risks, the Federal Reserve said. In a long-awaited report on central bank digital currencies (CBDC), the Fed stressed that it is not taking a position nor does the paper signal … Read more

West donated vaccines going waste

West donated vaccines going waste

At a time when global cooperation and help are most needed, many countries on the African continent are facing “vaccine nationalism” from the West. Several countries have been forced to discard more than 3 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccines because the vaccines expired within months of being received as donations. The situation is “regrettable” … Read more

Twitter back in Nigeria after seven-month blackout

Twitter

ABUJA: Twitter was accessible in Nigeria on Thursday after the government lifted a seven-month ban on the social media giant for deleting a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari. Nigeria halted Twitter operations in June, provoking an international outcry over freedom of expression. The government and Twitter have been in negotiations since over restoring the service based … Read more

Premier League trio to feature in Africa Cup of Nations

Premier League

Premier League trio Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Riyad Mahrez will be star attractions in Cameroon at the Africa Cup of Nations, which promises to be “exceptional” according to the top football official in the continent. The 36-match group phase kicks off on January 9 at the newly built Olembe Stadium in Yaounde and the tournament concludes … Read more

Osimhen forced to sit out Africa Cup of Nations

Osimhen

ABUJA: Nigeria have been forced to make four late changes to their final Africa Cup of Nations squad with Napoli striker Victor Osimhen and Watford winger Emmanuel Dennis missing the tournament. Defender Shehu Abdullahi and Leon Balogun are the other two players who will sit out the biennial African football showpiece being hosted by Cameroon and which … Read more

Nigeria select recuperating Osimhen for Africa Cup

Victor Osimhen

ABUJA: Nigeria have selected Napoli striker Victor Osimhen, who is still recovering from a serious injury, as part of its 28-man squad for next month’s Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. Osimhen looked certain to miss the tournament, which is scheduled to kick off in Cameroon on January 9, after initially being ruled out for … Read more

Napoli’s Osimhen ‘available’ for Nigeria at Africa Cup of Nations

Victor Osimhen

MILAN: Victor Osimhen said Tuesday that he will be available to play for Nigeria at the Africa Cup of Nations despite currently being out of action while recovering from a smashed cheekbone. Napoli forward Osimhen looked certain to miss out on the continental tournament, which is scheduled to kick off on January 9, after initially … Read more

Ghana requires proof of vaccination for travellers

Ghana

ACCRA: Public health authorities in Ghana have introduced new travel guidelines requiring visitors to show proof of vaccination against Covid-19 from next week as the government tries to avert a fourth wave of infections. Under new rules coming into effect from midnight on Sunday, travellers “will be required to provide evidence of full vaccination,” Ghana’s … Read more

Zimbabwe’s Central Bank studies digital currency, rejects cryptocurrency

Zimbabwe’s Central Bank

RIYADH: Zimbabwe’s Central Bank is exploring using its own digital currency instead of allowing cryptocurrency as legal tender, its Governor John Mangudya told Bloomberg. “As a central bank we don’t believe in cryptocurrencies,” Mangudya said in an interview on Monday. “We believe in central bank digital currency which is basically trying to say how do we … Read more

‘No need to panic’ over Omicron variant: Africa CDC

'No need to panic' over Omicron variant: Africa CDC

NAIROBI, Dec 2, 2021 (AFP) – The African Union’s health watchdog on Thursday appealed for calm over Omicron, the new, heavily mutated Covid-19 variant which has prompted many governments to impose new restrictions. The new variant was first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) by South Africa a week ago, and has quickly showed up across … Read more

Promoting trade with African countries, govt’s top priority: Razak Dawood

Razak Dawood

ISLAMABAD: The present government is giving foremost priority to promote and expand business and trade with African countries, a senior official said. Addressing the Pakistan-Africa Trade Development Conference in Lahogs, Nigeria, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Commerce Abdul Razak Dawood said that Africa is “a promising continent and land of opportunities”. He also called … Read more

Napoli’s Osimhen to have operation on Tuesday

Osimhen

ROME: Napoli striker Victor Osimhen faces an operation on Tuesday after suffering multiple face fractures following a clash of heads during the weekend defeat at Inter Milan, the Seria A leaders announced on Monday. The Nigerian, who had to spend Sunday night under observation in a Milan hospital after the match at the San Siro, … Read more

‘It kills me inside’: Activists sound alarm on climate anxiety

HONG KONG: From Bangladesh to Britain to Nigeria, many young campaigners on the frontlines of the global fight for climate justice now face a new problem: the impact the crisis is having on their mental health. As thousands of delegates converged at the COP26 summit in Glasgow to discuss ways to tackle the environmental emergency, … Read more

Northwest Nigeria facing humanitarian crisis: UNICEF

SOKOTO: If donors and the international community are not interested in doing what needs to be done today, in a few years Nigeria will be dealing with a situation that a lot of people will regret, Maulid Warfa, chief of UNICEF’S field office said on Thursday. “I am worried about this brewing humanitarian crisis.” There … Read more

Death toll from cholera outbreak in Nigeria rises to 2,323

ABUJA: The cholera outbreak in Nigeria has killed 2,323 people in the country since its onset in January, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) said on Tuesday. In a statement on Tuesday, the NCDC said 46 new deaths were linked to the outbreak across the country between August 30 and Septembner 5. The public … Read more

Over 2,000 people killed in cholera outbreak in Nigeria

LAGOS:  The death toll from the cholera outbreak in Nigeria since January has hit 2,141 among more than 65,000 suspected cases, said the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC). In the latest update on the cholera outbreak reaching Xinhua on Tuesday, the health agency said a total of 65,145 suspected cholera cases have been reported … Read more

Securities regulator of Nigeria has set up a fintech team to research crypto

BTC TO PKR

Due to the government limits, several of the crypto markets of Nigeria goes underground, the country’s securities regulator are trying to make investors safer.

In 2021, financial organizations working in Nigeria have been the pedal of a government restriction on cryptocurrencies, start with February’s infamous central bank prohibition on investors providing services to crypto exchanges in the country.

With several of the Nigerian crypto market of need peer-to-peer, Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) now purposes to present regulations that could legalize the business and offer investors healthier safety.

Nigeria’s SEC, which reflects that all crypto assets ”are securities, unless proven otherwise,” will only be capable to create a regulatory background if crypto is once more integrated into the country’s banking system.  The agency is also apparently seeing to operate with fintechs to support the national market for safeties to put off the capital flight, which remains to affect many sectors.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is too joining with a Barbados-based fintech as a technical partner for its projected e-naira digital currency.

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Nigerian expert warns against ‘political virus’ in Covid-19 origins tracing

COVID-19 Pakistan

ABUJA: The US report on origins tracing of Covid-19 can at best produce a ‘political virus,’ said a Nigerian expert, urging a science-backed endeavour and global collaboration on this issue. “The Covid-19 pandemic is too serious and of tremendous global concerns for its origins tracing to be trivialised by politically cooked up innuendoes designed mostly … Read more

Gunmen abduct over 70 high-school students in northwest Nigeria

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The Nigerian police have stated that gunmen have seized more than 70 students in the country’s northwest, in the latest attacks against targeting school-going students. Zamfara state police spokesman Mohammed Shehu said in a statement that a large group of assailants captured the Government Day Secondary School in the remote village of Kaya, clutching 73 … Read more

Cryptocurrency adoption globally increased

Cryptocurrency

Globally the adoption of cryptocurrency is increased by 880% in the last year as Vietnam, India, and Pakistan have become the quickest crypto adopters.

“Geography of Cryptocurrency,” the company’s 2021 Global Crypto Adoption Index, differentiated the countries’ cryptocurrency adoption based on three main parameters, on-chain retail value transferred, the on-chain crypto value received, and peer-to-peer(P2P).

The number one country on the overall index is Vietnam in the adoption of cryptocurrencies, And India(0.37), Pakistan (0.36), Ukraine (0.29), and Kenya (0.28) followed it.

Pakistan and India come in the top ten on the list.

Economies play a great role in the increase in the adoption of crypto.

The report wrote “Several countries in emerging markets, including Kenya, Nigeria, Vietnam, and Venezuela rank high on our index in large part because they have huge transaction volumes on peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms when adjusted for PPP per capita and internet-using population,”

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Cholera death toll rises to 1,178 in Nigeria

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LAGOS: The cholera epidemic has killed 1,178 people in 23 states and Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, since it broke out in January, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) said Tuesday. In an update of the cholera outbreak in Nigeria, the health agency said 37,819 suspected cases of cholera were reported from 23 states … Read more

16 kidnapped after gunmen attack college in NW Nigeria: police

Nigeria attack

LAGOS: Nigerian police confirmed on Monday that 16 persons were kidnapped after a group of unidentified gunmen attacked a college in northwest Nigeria’s Zamfara state. Mohammed Shehu, a police spokesperson in Zamfara, told Xinhua in a telephonic conversation that gunmen in large numbers invaded the College of Agriculture and Animal Sciences in the Bakura area … Read more