Aboubakar Kamara plays for the Mauritanian National team who knocked out one of the pre tournament favourites Algeria at the ongoing AFCON 2023. The 28 year old currently plies his profession at Al Jazira football club in the Dubai Football League, but between the 2017/18 and 2020/2021 seasons, he played for Fulham Football Club in the English Premier League where his squad number was No.47....

President Bola Tinubu has urged Nigerians to join hands to fix the country and have a change of mindset towards money. Tinubu spoke on Monday when he received a delegation of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) led by its president Archbishop Daniel Okoh at the State House in Abuja, asking the body to help in preaching against corruption and related matters. “We have no other country...

Abdul Rabiu Samad, the Nigerian billionaire and CEO/Chairman of BUA Group, has surpassed Mike Adenuga to claim the position of the second-richest person in Nigeria. This shift in rankings is attributed to the significant surge in Rabiu’s fortune, now estimated at $7.2 billion, according to Forbes’ list of global billionaires, where he ranks 343rd. The remarkable increase in Rabiu’s net worth...

A new report has projected that the Central Bank of Nigeria may ask commercial banks with international banking licence to raise their capital base to over N900bn. This came a few months after the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Olayemi Cardoso, said the apex bank would be asking lenders to raise more capital in order to support the Federal Government’s vision to grow the economy to $1tn....

The reigning Miss Tourism, Ebere Joy on Monday survived a ghastly road accident in Abuja the nation's capital AbujaPress reports. The crash happened at about 2:47pm along Umar Musa Yar'Adua Expressway way, popularly known as Airport Road while on her way to Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport to pick her sister. Joy, the Tourism Ambassador of the Nigerian Tourism Development Authority (NTDA) was in the c...

The Lagos State Government has warned against indiscriminate handling and storage of combustible items. In a joint statement issued by the Honourable Commissioner for Special Duties and Intergovernmental Relations, Mr. Olugbenga Oyerinde and Director General Safety Commission, Mr Lanre Mojola at the weekend affirmed the commitment of Babajide Sanwo-olu's administration to safety of lives and pr...

Africa Cup of Nations AFCON 2023 Group stage Match 3 Nigeria vs Guinea-Bissau Date: Mon.22nd January 2024 Time: 6pm WAT Venue: Stadium:Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Unilever Nigeria says it has stopped production and sales of home care and skin cleansing products — 10 months after the company announced plans to exit both markets. The company disclosed this in its unaudited interim financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023, published on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) on Wednesday. On March 17, 2023, Unilever Nigeria revealed its inte...

Tope Awotona is the founder and CEO of scheduling software company Calendly. Awotona, a former salesman for tech firms including EMC (now Dell EMC), founded Calendly out of his own frustration with the back-and-forth emails required to schedule meetings. He bootstrapped Calendly for years before taking on a $350 million investment in 2021 that valued the firm at $3 billion. Born in Lagos, N...

Dangote Cement has returned 81.4 per cent in the last 52 weeks. Billionaire tycoon Femi Otedola has racked up shares worth N6 billion of Dangote Cement Plc, a source with knowledge of the transactions told PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday. Mr Otedola, the source said, acquired the shares in his name. Sub-Saharan Africa’s largest cement maker Dangote Cement recently leapfrogged telecommunicatio...

Ace singer, Tiwa Savage, has been robbed in the United Kingdom, where she is currently. The singer revealed this in a post via her Instagram story, on Thursday. Although the Somebody’s Son crooner didn’t give much information regarding the robbery, she expressed pain over the incident. “Damn London, una show me pepper o. Got robbed yesterday,” she wrote in a combination of pidgin and Engl...

A Nigerian man shares his touching Japa story. He shared how his travel agent refused picking his call and was left to sleep on the road for months begging for food to survive. Luck eventually smiled on him when he got a tailoring job but this was short lived because he was "roped" in a crime he didn't commit because he is a Nigerian. After spending months in prison, he was found not guilt....

Me: NO If they can leave their parents,who am I that they can’t leave?

The government of Cote d’Ivoire has declared Thursday, January 18, a public holiday for students. It also said that some government parastatals will work half a day in the country as they are expected to close work by 1 pm. The gesture is to drum more support for the Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire ahead of their second group A game against the Super Eagles of Nigeria slated for 5:45 pm (Nigerian t...

The reverberations of the explosion echoed through various parts of the city, including Agbowo, Sango, Orogun, Bodija, UI, Akobo, Mokola, Secretariat, and other areas. As of this report, the cause of the explosion remains unknown. Glimpse TV has obtained videos showcasing the aftermath of the blast, revealing houses in ruins due to the impact of the explosion. Notable buildings like Ace M...