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Forex Crisis: Patronise Made-in-Nigeria Goods to Strengthen Naira, Presidency tells Nigerians

The Presidency has advised Nigerians to buy made in Nigeria products with the belief that such a move will strengthen the naira. The...

Water scarcity can fuel conflicts around the world, UN warns

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has warned that water scarcity can fuel conflicts around the world and also pose...

Just in: Two Nasarawa varsity students die, several others injured in palliative-sharing stampede

A stampede at the convocation square of Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK) has claimed the lives of at least two students. Persecondnews gathered...

Nigeria ranks as 102nd World’s happiest country – Report

Nigeria has ranked as the 102nd happiest nation in the world out of 143 countries, the World Happiness Report released on Wednesday disclosed....

Reps extend 2023 supplementary budget implementation by two months

The House of Representatives has passed a bill seeking an extension of the 2023 supplementary budget. This comes after President Bola Tinubu had...

Goods worth millions of naira destroyed as fire guts popular Idumota market in Lagos

An early morning fire on Wednesday destroyed goods worth millions of Naira, razing some shops in the Nnamdi Azikiwe and Docemo sections of...

Senate Increases FCT 2024 Budget To ₦1.3trn

The Senate has increased the 2024 Federal Capital Territory (FCT) budget to about ₦1.3 trillion after the bill scaled third reading. Persecondnews reports...

Delta Military Killings: Flags To Fly At Half-Mast, Begins Three-Day Mourning

Nigeria’s Armed Forces have begun a three-day national mourning for the 17 soldiers killed by angry youths in Okuama, Ughelli South Local Government...

Release data of Nigerian users to EFCC, court orders Binance

A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the cryptocurrency trading platform, Binance Holdings Limited, to provide the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...

NDLEA Nab Hairstylist, Dispatch Rider For Allegedly Selling Drug-Laced Chin-Chin To Students, At Parties

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has detained a 20-year-old hair stylist named Josephine Odunu and a 30-year-old dispatch rider named Edesemi...

Delta military killings: ‘Cowardly’ perpetrators won’t go unpunished, says Tinubu

President Bola Tinubu has condemned the killings of some Army officers and troops at Okuama, Delta State, on March 14. This is as...

Telcoms, banks, media hit as undersea cable damage causes internet outages in Nigeria, West, South Africa

Following damage to the international underwater cables that provide them with connectivity, Nigerian banks and telecommunications companies are experiencing internet outages. The damage...

Food production: CBN donates 2.15m bags of fertilizer to Fed. Ministry of Agriculture

In a bid to boost food production across the country, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has handed over N100 billion...

Just In: N3.7trn budget padding allegation: Senate suspends Ningi for three months

The Senate on Tuesday suspended the senator representing Bauchi Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Mr. Abdul Ningi, over an allegation of...

Food Security: FG secures €995 million deal to create agric mechanization hubs in 774 LGAs

The Federal Government has secured a deal worth €995 million with the Brazilian Government and the German Deutsch Bank Group to finance a...

“Japa”: UK bans foreign health workers, caregivers from bringing families

The UK government has released a statement prohibiting foreign healthcare professionals and carers from entering the country with their dependents on work visas....