Category : National

FULL LIST: INEC Unveils List Of Elected Rep Members, Delists Name of Rep Majority Leader.

NigGalMarch 7, 2023March 7, 2023

The Independent National Electoral Commission has released the full list of members-elect of the 10th House of Representatives. The National Assembly elections were held last...

Elections

March 11 Polls: INEC to seek court permission to reconfigure BVAS.

NigGalMarch 6, 2023March 6, 2023

THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will on Monday approach the Appeal Court for an order to allow it reconfigure its Bimodal Voter...

Innovations

NSIA Set to Open Application Portal for $225,000 Innovation Prize Scheme

NigGalMarch 6, 2023March 6, 2023

The Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), managers of the Nigeria sovereign wealth fund is set to open the application portal for its NSIA Prize for...

Prizes & Awards

FGC Lagos beats 27 countries to win African coding competition.

NigGalMarch 6, 2023March 6, 2023

Ten students of the Federal Government College (FGC) in Ijanikin, Lagos have won a coding competition, contested by 178 schools nationwide. NAN reports that the feat placed the...

Finance National

Supreme Court delivers judgement on naira redesign suit

NigGalMarch 3, 2023March 5, 2023

The Supreme Court is set to deliver judgement on the suit filed by some state governments to challenge the federal government’s naira redesign policy today...

Elections

Aregbesola congratulates Tinubu, Shettima.

NigGalMarch 3, 2023March 3, 2023

The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has congratulated the President elect, Ahmed Bola Tinubu and his Vice, Kashim Shettima over their victories in last...

Prizes & Awards

Nigerian Saheed Aderinto wins ‘largest history prize in the world’

NigGalMarch 2, 2023March 2, 2023

The Dan David Prize is a major international award that recognises and supports outstanding contributions to the study of history and other disciplines that shed...

Elections

INEC declares Tinubu winner of presidential election

NigGalMarch 1, 2023March 1, 2023

The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, as the president-elect. Tinubu, a former Lagos State governor, was...

Elections

Labour Party’s Attah Thadeus defeats Banky W, Obanikoro’s son.

NigGalMarch 1, 2023March 2, 2023

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Mr Thaddeus Attah of the Labour Party (LP) as the winner of the Eti-Osa Federal Constituency seat...

Elections

Atiku, Tinubu, Obi, in tight race as run-off looms.

NigGalFebruary 28, 2023February 28, 2023

•Tinubu polls 4.1m, Atiku 3m, Obi 1.6m in 14 states •APC wins in Ekiti, Kwara, Ondo, Oyo, Ogun, JIgawa. •PDP in Osun, Yobe, Gombe, Adamawa,...

Elections

Banky W, Obanikoro Lose As Labour Party Wins Eti-Osa Federal Constituency Seat.

NigGalFebruary 27, 2023February 27, 2023

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Mr Thaddeus Attah of the Labour Party (LP) as the winner of the Eti-Osa Federal Constituency seat...

Elections

APC National Chair Loses Senatorial Seat To SDP.

NigGalFebruary 27, 2023February 27, 2023

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Adamu has lost his senatorial seat in the Nasarawa western zone to the candidate of the...

Elections

Obi Leads Tinubu With Over 1,000 Votes In 17 Lagos LGAs

NigGalFebruary 27, 2023February 27, 2023

At the moment, APC’s Bola Tinubu has won in 10 local government areas while Obi clinched Ikeja, the state capital, and half a dozen other...

Elections

Presidential Candidates Sign Peace Pact In Abuja.

NigGalFebruary 23, 2023February 23, 2023

Ahead of Saturday’s election in Nigeria, Presidential candidates of 18 political parties have signed a peace Pact. Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku...

Elections

Projection Series II: Atiku, Obi, Tinubu Consolidate Positions Few Days to Polls.

NigGalFebruary 20, 2023February 20, 2023

by AMOS ESELE with Ukandi Odey, Amos Owei, Bassey Aniekan, Udeme Utip, Tunde Omolehin, George Martins, Sampson Uhuegbe, Sunday Ogbu, Maimunatu Ibrahim & Segun Ayinde...

National

Old N200 Remains Legal Tender Till April, As Old N500, N1,000 Lose Out – Buhari.

NigGalFebruary 16, 2023February 16, 2023

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to continue to accept the old N200 note as legal tender up to April...

Prizes & Awards

Babcock University Students Win Agriculture, Advertising Awards

NigGalFebruary 15, 2023February 15, 2023

A final year student of Agriculture and Industrial Technology, Heman Gabriel Zakaria and a 400-level student of Mass Communication, Oluwatoyin Ajewole of Babcock University, Illishan...

National

Buhari, CBN will speak after Supreme Court hearing on Naira notes says the Presidency

NigGalFebruary 15, 2023February 15, 2023

The Presidency has said President Muhammadu Buhari will speak on the controversies over the withdrawal of old naira notes after the hearing of the suit...

Elections

“Election will not hold in 240 polling units” – INEC, gives reason.

NigGalFebruary 14, 2023February 14, 2023

12 days to the 2023 general elections in Nigeria, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said voting will not hold in 240 Polling Units...

National

UK-Nigeria trade volume hits £5.5b.

NigGalFebruary 13, 2023February 13, 2023

The British Deputy High Commissioner in Lagos, Mr. Ben Llewelyn-Jones, has said the United Kingdom (UK) exports to Nigeria amounted to £3.3 billion in the...

Brands/CSR Prizes & Awards

UBA emerges Champion Newspapers’ 2022 Bank of the Year.

NigGalFebruary 13, 2023February 13, 2023

United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has emerged Champon Newspapers’ 2022 Bank of the Year thus setting the stage for the formal presentation of the...

National

Nigeria generated $4.8b revenue from non oil exports in 2022 – NEPC

NigGalFebruary 10, 2023February 10, 2023

The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) says the country generated a total of $4.8b dollars as revenue from non oil exports in year 2022. The...

Elections

BVAS technology, elections and democracy.

NigGalFebruary 10, 2023February 10, 2023

Democracy thrives on the willingness and ability of the people to participate in the political process. The political environment is expected to be free of...

Prizes & Awards

First Female Winner Emerges At InterswitchSPAK.

NigGalFebruary 9, 2023February 9, 2023

Orevaoghene Whiskey of Top Faith International School, Akwa Ibom State, has been crowned the best STEM student in Nigeria, following the conclusion of the fourth...

Innovations

Google unveils its ChatGPT rival “Bard”

NigGalFebruary 7, 2023February 7, 2023

Google on Monday unveiled a new chatbot tool dubbed “Bard” in an apparent bid to compete with the viral success of ChatGPT. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google...

Elections

Buhari Declares Tinubu Next President Of Nigeria At Lafia Rally.

NigGalFebruary 6, 2023February 6, 2023

Amid concerns about division within the seat of power over his fate at the coming polls, President Muhammadu Buhari has declared the All Progressives Congress...

Prizes & Awards

Tems Wins Her First Grammy Award For ‘Wait For U’

NigGalFebruary 6, 2023February 6, 2023

Nigerian sensational singer, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems has bagged her first ever Grammy award. The “Free mind” singer who was nominated in the...

National

Nigeria, 6 other countries to benefit from AfDB’s $1 million technical grant for sustainable transport.

NigGalFebruary 2, 2023February 2, 2023

Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone and South Africa will benefit from a $1 million technical assistance grant from the African Development Bank (AfDB)....

Brands/CSR National

Flour Mills of Nigeria Records N1.1trn Revenue in Nine Months.

NigGalFebruary 1, 2023February 1, 2023

Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc (FMN), Nigeria’s leading food and agro-allied business yesterday released of its unaudited financial results for the nine months((9M) ended December 31, 2022....

National

Buhari unveils Imota Rice Mill, biggest in Africa.

NigGalFebruary 1, 2023February 1, 2023

Buhari with Sanwo-Olu at the unveiling of Imota Rice Mill. President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday unveiled the Imota Rice Mill, the biggest of its kind...

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