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MoneyGram International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MGI), a global leader in cross-border P2P payments and money transfers, today announced a new partnership with Airtel Africa PLC, a leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money services with a presence in 14 countries across Africa.   The partnership enables Airtel Money’s 19 million customers to quickly and conveniently receive […]

  The Nigerian government has said it will apply the principle of reciprocity as the resumption of international flights in the country approaches.   Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, said this on Thursday in Abuja at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19.   The government explained that this means that only […]

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday appointed former Super Eagles striker, Daniel Amokachi, as a Special Assistant on Sports.   The Ministry of Youth and Sports Development announced this in a statement.   The statement. titled, ‘PMB appoints Amokachi Special Assistant, Sports’, was signed by John Akanji, Special Adviser on media to the Minister of […]

A group of lawyers under the aegis of the Open Bar Initiative have petitioned the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to withdraw its invitation to Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, to speak at the association’s annual general conference, saying it would amount to rewarding bad behavior.   “As Governor, Mallam el-Rufai has shown no regard […]

Although the Judiciary never ceases to amuse Nigerians with its controversial positions on important national issues, the July 31, 2020 controversial court verdict that acquitted the psychopathic Adamawa thug called Senator Elisha Cliff Abbo from the gender-based assault and violence charges brought against him by Ms. Osimibibra Warmate, is bizarre and ridiculous; and certainly a […]

Fayemi Kayode, the EKITI State governor, is not aware of the 2023 presidential campaign posters purporting to be his, and currently circulating on the social media, according to his Chief Press Secretary, Yinka Oyebode.   “The attention of Governor Kayode Fayemi has been drawn to news reports of a campaign poster being purportedly circulated on […]

Nigeria’s Senate Joint Committee on Finance and National Planning on Wednesday threatened to sanction heads of some revenue-generating agencies of the Federal Government if they fail to appear before it on Thursday (today).   Senator Solomon Adeola, chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, gave the warning at the opening session of a five-day public […]

…as Nigeria calls for speedy activation of a regional standby force   The  Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has suspended Mali from the body’s decision-making bodies with immediate effect, the regional body said Tuesday.   The action was in response to a military coup on Tuesday that toppled the government of that country. […]

About 500 people have signed a new petition asking the Nigerian Bar Association to remove Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, from the list of speakers in the upcoming Annual General Conference of the NBA, Punch has reported.   This is just as some lawyers called on the NBA leadership to remove el-Rufai from the list […]