MTN Nigeria reported a loss of N400.44 billion after tax for the year ending December 31, 2024, primarily due to the devaluation of the naira, which increased foreign exchange losses and negatively impacted the company's earnings. This loss, revealed in the company's audited financial statements on Thursday, marks a 192% increase from the N137.02 billion loss recorded in 2023. The...
Pope Francis is hospitalized with double pneumonia. His condition remains serious, though he is responding to treatment. The Vatican confirmed that the 87-year-old pope’s health has worsened. He is now "more unwell than yesterday" after a prolonged asthma-like respiratory crisis. Despite this, he remains alert and spent the day in an armchair, though in more pain than before. Doctors...
The Federal High Court 1 in Owerri, Imo State, has ruled in favor of Chika Edoziem, the Head of the Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The court, presided over by Hon. Justice I.N. Oweibo, dismissed charges against Edoziem related to terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping, and violent crimes. In Suit No: FHC/OW/FHR/29/2024, filed by Edoziem against the...
The race for the Anambra 2025 governorship election is heating up as the Anambra Coalition for Progressive Change, a group comprising lecturers, traders, activists, and professionals, has thrown its weight behind aviation mogul and APC stalwart, Prof Obiora Okonkwo. On Wednesday, the coalition made a bold statement by purchasing the N50 million Nomination and Expression of Interest...
Senator Monday Okpebholo has once again made a public error, this time incorrectly referring to Senator Adams Oshiomhole as the representative of Edo South in a trending video on social media. The mistake occurred during the flag-off ceremony for the dualization of sections two to four of the Ekpoma-Auchi-Okpella-Okene-Ajaokuta Expressway, a major federal project aimed at improving connectivity...
