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Director-General, National Information and Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kasheem Inuwa, has said full implementation of the digital economy will make Nigeria globally competitive.Inuwa noted that...
It’s not every day that an organization runs a cost-intensive promo across-the-board as a compensatory move of gratitude. Access Bank, Nigeria’s leading retail bank, is doing that in an amazing way.
The bank is offering its customers, who...
Apple on Wednesday reported stronger-than-expected profits for the past quarter, fueled by growth in digital services and wearables that helped offset slower iPhone sales.
Profit in the quarter ending in September dipped four percent from a year...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday condoled with the Government and people of Lagos State over the death of a former Military Governor of the state, Brig.-Gen Mobolaji Olufunso Johnson (retd).
Johnson was the first military governor of the...
Nigerian universities are not short of drama. Examples are students’ ‘uprising’ against the institutions, teachers’ exploitation of the former as well as lecturers’ revolt against the government to the former’s internal wrangling over...
Nnamdi Kanu, Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on Thursday, told the Federal High Court, Abuja, that he was ready to face trial if his safety would be guaranteed by the court.
Kanu told the presiding judge,...
The Court of Appeal Sokoto Division on Wednesday returned Ibrahim Danbaba and Balarabe Kakale as Senator and House of Representative member in the National Assembly, respectively.
In a short judgement read by Justice Frederick Oho, the court said...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has adjourned till November 18, 2019 to adopt written addresses in a suit between Ecobank Plc and Obat Oil and Petroleum Ltd over an Abuja Hotel.
Justice H. B. Babangida fixed the date on Tuesday, October 29 after...
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele says smuggling must be dealt with to effectively and successfully revive Cotton, Textile and Garment (CTG) sub-sector.
Emefiele said this at the signing of Memorandum of...
Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and First Bank Plc have opted for out of court settlement in an N25 billion damages suit filed against them by an indigenous company, Biatemp Ventures Ltd over alleged account manipulation.
The company had...
GOVERNORS on Tuesday sought the variation of the budget support loan repayment, which they said will compound the state governments’ burden.
They rejected the proposed monthly repayment of N164billion, stressing that the states could not...
Nigeria’s Supreme Court has named the seven man panel constituted to hear the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar.
Listed in the panel is the Chief Justice of Nigeria Justice Ibrahim...
Google parent Alphabet on Monday reported a sharp drop in profit over the past quarter as it ramped up spending for a wide array of new gadgets and services.Profit dipped 23 percent from a year ago to $7.1 billion as revenue grew 20 percent to $40.5...
Modern humans emerged 200,000 years ago in a region of northern Botswana, scientists claimed Monday, in what appeared to be the most precise location of mankind’s “ancestral homeland” yet discovered.While it has long been known anatomically...
The Indigenous People of Biafra on Tuesday alleged that 17 of its members sustained gunshot injuries when they were attacked by a combined team of security agencies on Sunday in Ebonyi State.
But the Police debunked the allegations stating that...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission on Monday gave a breakdown of how the Secretary General of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, Mr. Amaechi Akawu, collected the excess $135,000 mistakenly sent by the...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday made a fresh push to get lawmakers to back his plan for a pre-Christmas election after a third Brexit delay.
The Conservative leader is trying to lead Britain through a three-year crisis that was...
Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo believes his “healthy rivalry” with Barcelona counterpart Lionel Messi during his time in LaLiga made him a better player.
Both men have won the coveted Ballon d’Or five times and are considered to be two...
Men load a truck at the cereal market of Maradi, near Niger’s southern frontier on October 19, 2019 after the Nigeria closed its border with Niger on August 20, 2019 to defend against smuggling. – The closure of the border by Nigeria...
Less than a quarter of the 445 aircraft registered by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) are airborne. A raft of unfriendly government policies pegging the age limit on operating aircraft, prohibitive offshore maintenance cost, rising...
Former Deputy President of the Senate, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, has called on the International Parliament for Tolerance and Peace (IPTP) holding in Ethiopia, to pay special attention to the xenophobic attacks on the African continent.
Mr Uche...
The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) yesterday said it had reviewed current progress in the implementation of the new minimum wage law and resolved that consequential increments will depend on the capacity of individual state government.
Chairman of...
A LEBANESE Hamza Koudeih and two other suspected accomplices of social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha (a.k.a. Mompha), have been arrested in Lagos.
Koudeih was arrested at the weekend after a three-hour stand-off at his N1.8 billion luxury...
Rivers State Government and Real Madrid Football Club have signed a ratification agreement for the development of Real Madrid Academy, Port Harcourt into an international football academy.
The agreement signing ceremony took place on Monday at...
The governor of Nigeria’s central bank Godwin Emefiele Monday said Nigeria’s land borders will remain shut until the country’s neighbours agree to implement mutual anti-smuggling policies.
“Before the borders are reopened, there must be...
The Koton Karfe custodial centre in Kogi has collapsed under heavy flooding, loading to escape of 228 inmates.
The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Correctional Service, Mr Jafar Ahmed, who confirmed this while speaking with newsmen in Koton Kafe...
It's easy to forget we live in a modern world where preposterously expensive technology is flying somewhere above our heads at all times. Until one comes crashing down in your backyard, that is.
That's what happened in Michigan on Saturday...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigeria Interbank Settlement System (NIBSS) are working for the application of remittance processes to ensure the seamless collection of stamp duty charges for PoS.
Many filing stations and supermarkets...
Jeff Bezos is back as the richest man in the world after Bill Gates briefly earned the title as reported by TMZ.
After the markets closed Friday, Forbes says Jeff is now worth $109.9 billion, moving him back ahead of Bill and his $105.8 billion...
Experts have revealed that Nigeria is losing millions in foreign exchange due to the activities of the informal sector collectors of electronic waste. They urged the government to sanitise the informal e-waste recyclers through proper legislation...
The Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) on Monday said that the trial of 5G, the fifth generation network technology, would be on trial for three months in the country before actual approval and rollout.
The Executive Vice Chairman of NCC,...
Top officials of the Federal Ministry of Power are facing enquiry over the payment of N1.68 billion to a firm whose parent company is indebted to the government and in receivership.
The Assets Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON), which...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has set up committees to investigate eight judges for alleged judicial misconduct.
This was disclosed at its meeting held in Abuja on Thursday while recommending the appointment of four Supreme Court...
Ex-militants have threatened to return to the creeks if the Amnesty Office failed to give them starter packs snd other entitlements within seven days.
The ex-agitators lamented that despite completing their training and skill acquisition under...
A member of National Youth Service Corps ( NYSC) serving in Bebeji local government area of Kano state,has allegedly beaten a young boy (Almajiri) to death
However, the police have barricaded the area to prevent irate mob from attacking the corps...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a gang of fraudsters who specialise in exploiting personal data of foreign-based Nigerians to defraud their friends and relations back home.
In a statement by the commission said,...
Multinational technology giant, Google, is celebrating the 119th birthday of late Nigeria teacher, political campaigner, women’s rights activist and traditional aristocrat, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti with a Doodle.
The Doodle, illustrated by...
The gulf created between banks and telecommunication companies over an ‘attempt’ by telcos to start the deduction of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) is widening by the day.
The operators have accused the Body of Bank...
Closing Nigeria’s borders to stop smuggling of rice and other goods into Nigeria from neighbouring West African countries is one of the most crude and retrogressive decisions and actions of the Buhari government in recent times.
A rational and...
Some 16 lucky candidates have been selected from among 50 contestants, who made it to the Bootcamp for The Next Titan Season 6, after the auditions that saw thousands of Nigerian young entrepreneurs jostle for selection at centres in Lagos, Port...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has declared the former Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel on the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Okoi Obono-Obla, wanted.
The anti-graft...
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday likened the impeachment investigation against him to a “lynching,” a racially charged word from the darkest days of America’s slavery legacy.
There was an immediate backlash to Trump’s tweet in which...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday has ordered the temporary forfeiture of 23 properties linked to a former Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina.
The judge Justice Folashade Ogunbanjo ordered the forfeiture...
The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), Yewande Sadiku said two firms with total investment valued at N185.63billion and staff strength of 3085 have obtained presidential approval for extension for two...
Former Senate President Bukola Saraki has faulted the court ruling, which ordered the interim forfeiture of two of his properties in Ikoyi, Lagos State.
He said the court must have been misled into granting the order, as neither him nor his...
A retired military officer, Colonel Hassan Stan-Labo says the border closure operation has helped Nigeria’s economy and security greatly and he wishes the closure will remain for the next 25years.
Stan-Labo disclosed this on Monday during an...
Some youths in Niger State have shut down the Minna-Suleja Road to stage a protest.
The demonstrators stormed the road in large a number on Monday morning to protest what they called neglect by the Federal Government.
They accused the Federal...
Egypt on Saturday unveiled the details of 30 ancient wooden coffins with mummies inside discovered in the southern city of Luxor in the biggest find of its kind in more than a century.
A team of Egyptian archaeologists discovered a “distinctive...
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Ibrahim Magu, says the agency is planning to rehabilitate young people who are engaged in Internet fraud, popularly known as Yahoo Yahoo boys.
Magu stated this in Lagos on...
Nigeria needs to begin to seek out alternative sources of funding for the health sector, especially in the area primary health, care which is at the epicenter of achieving the Universal Health Coverage for all.
This was the focus of discussion...