Ambassador Meets With Professionals, Business Community in Hungary
The Nigerian Ambassador to Hungary, Ambassador Abass Ogwime Braimah, recently held an engagement with members of the Nigerian professional and business community in Budapest, Hungary. The delegation was led by Dr. John Sessi, a PhD holder in Chemical Engineering with over 42 years of professional experience and a respected leader among Nigerian professionals in Hungary. […]
Nigeria Retains Africa’s Top Spot as 89 Students Get EU Erasmus Scholarships
Nigeria has retained its position as Africa’s leading beneficiary of the European Union’s prestigious Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s scholarship programme, with 89 students securing fully funded scholarships for postgraduate studies across Europe this year. The latest feat also saw 163 Nigerians admitted into the highly competitive master’s programme, reaffirming the country’s dominance on the continent […]
EU Accounts for 31% of Nigeria’s Trade, Expands Investment Push
The European Union (EU) currently accounts for 31 per cent of Nigeria’s foreign trade and remains the country’s largest source of foreign direct investment, as it moves to deepen economic ties under a newly strengthened strategic partnership. Both partners pledged to drive more investments, expand trade and strengthen private sector collaboration at the 10th Nigeria-EU […]
Nigeria, UK Partner on Digital Skills to Prepare Youths for Global Jobs
The Federal Government has deepened its education and skills development partnership with the United Kingdom as part of efforts to prepare Nigerian youths for global employment opportunities through technical training, digital skills and apprenticeship programmes. Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, disclosed this during a bilateral meeting with the UK Minister of State for Skills, […]
Nigeria, Italy Meet Over Upcoming Education Summit
Nigeria and Italy have agreed to form a Working Group to implement the proposed Global Partnership for Education (GPE) financing campaign aimed at mobilizing Five billion United States Dollars for Education. The initiative, tagged the Multiply Possibility Campaign, seeks to transform learning for 750 million children and will culminate at the Global Education Summit in […]
Why I am taking Nigeria’s problems to the United States Policy Makers
The Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has stated that his decision to visit the United states of America to engage with policy and institutional stakeholders in that country was to draw attention to draw attention to “the alarming deterioration of security, governance, and economic stability in Nigeria” In a statement signed by his […]
Sixty-Two Piercing Annotations to Nigeria’s Restless Story
By Friday Inalegwu Ejilogo In the long arc of a poet’s life, each collection becomes not merely a new book but a fresh annotation to the unfolding manuscript of existence. Footnotes For A Native Land, appearing recently in 2026, marks Emman Usman Shehu’s fifth major poetry collection—a milestone that invites us to pause and trace […]
African Energy Bank Begins operations in June as Nigeria hands over HQ
The Africa Energy Bank is set to commence operations in June as Nigeria formally hands over its corporate Headquarters on Tuesday. The ceremony was held on the sidelines of the ongoing Nigeria International Energy Summit (NIES), where the President of the African Petroleum Producers’ Organisation (APPO) and Côte d’Ivoire’s Minister of Mines, Petroleum and Energy, […]
Nigeria, Türkiye strengthen diaspora ties through landmark MoU
Nigeria and the Republic of Türkiye have reaffirmed their commitment to deepening diaspora engagement through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at strengthening bilateral cooperation on diaspora affairs. The agreement, was signed on behalf of Nigeria by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, while Türkiye’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs signed on […]
Nigeria in Peril, Needs Collective Salvation — Tambuwal
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives and Senator representing Sokoto South, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has warned that the country was far from the democratic promise envisioned by its founders and was now in desperate need of national salvation. Tambuwal spoke on Saturday while explaining why activities marking his 60th birthday were deliberately framed around […]