Diamond Celebrities

Former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is still feeling the pain of his loss to Oleksandr Usyk in their title rematch when he failed to win back the WBO, WBA, IBO and IBF titles. Joshua has been out of action since his rematch with Usyk in August. Their first encounter nearly a year prior saw the […]

Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi has told Nigerians not to vote for him based on ethnic or entitlement sentiments, but on the competence he comes with. The former Anambra State Governor stated this during the Presidential Town Hall series organized by Arise TV on Sunday. According to Obi, he has the capacity to take […]

The sharp fall of the naira against the foreign currencies continues over the weekend with the British Pound crossing N1000 in the parallel market. There are fears that the dollar which has also been on a steep rise in value against the naira may cross N1000 any moment from now. The current black market rate […]

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar says one of the three naira notes about to be redesigned should have the image of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Atiku, in a string of tweets on Saturday, also saluted the 85-year-old elder statesman and African Union’s mediator for […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, ordered an interim forfeiture of 40 landed properties belonging to the embattled former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who is currently in custody in the United Kingdom. Justice Inyang Ekwo made the order following an ex-parte motion filed and moved by Ibrahim Buba on behalf of the […]

Nigerians have been warned by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) against use of some Toyota Lexus vehicles over “faulty programming”.  The alert was issued in a statement released on Friday, November 4, by Bisi Kazeem, FRSC’s public education officer.  The agency said the warning became necessary after Toyota’s recalled 14,799 “defective” Lexus vehicles. It was also noted that some Lexus […]

The Federal Government has revealed that Jigawa State is worst hit in terms of the number of deaths recorded during the devastating floods across the country. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouk, made the revelation while featuring in the Ministerial Media Briefing organised by the Presidential Communications […]

A woman of Nigerian descent, Amanda Azubuike, has been promoted from Lieutenant Colonel to Brigadier General of the United States Army at a military base in Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA. Born in London, United Kingdom, to Nigerian parents, Azubuike joined the US Army in 1994 and became an aviator after passing the Army Aviation Officer […]

There is no plan to print the proposed new naira notes outside Nigeria, a Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Board member has said. “All the new currency notes are printed in Nigeria by the Nigeria Security, Printing and Minting Company (NSPMC), so I do not envisage printing outside the country,” the Board member told The Nation in […]