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…. Osinbajo, Emefiele, Prof Benedict Oramah,Dabiri-Erewa To Attend    Fidelity Bank Plc, top Nigerian bank has concluded plans to host its Diaspora Webinar Series with the inaugural edition slated for Saturday, March 06, 2021 by 2pm. This virtual session seeks to enlighten Nigerian citizens’ resident abroad on recent policy measures by the Central Bank of […]

Prominent economist and former Nigerian finance minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, became the first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization (WTO), after members of the global trade body appointed her as director general. Her appointment removed a key obstacle to the functioning of the WTO, which has been leaderless at a time […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday directed the Nigeria Immigration Service to up its surveillance and control around the nation’s borders. Buhari directed the service to ensure that criminals do not find Nigeria as a safe haven to hide and perpetuate their criminality. The directive comes against the background of reports linking the current wave of […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has given specific orders to military commanders to shoot non-security personnel armed with AK-47 rifles, his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, has said. Shehu disclosed this in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service on Wednesday. “The president has ordered security forces to go into the bushes and […]

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo will on Saturday receive the COVID-19 vaccine publicly, as part of steps to convince Nigerians that the vaccine is safe. The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this at the second edition of the State House weekly briefing on Thursday. […]

  The Zamfara state government has imposed a curfew on the troubled Jangebe town, following civil unrest after the return of the 279 abducted schoolgirls. Reports said one person was shot by security operatives who allegedly opened fire after an angry mob kicked against the insistence on a formal handover before parents could leave with […]

Marauding gunmen continued to unleash terror in South West Nigeria as abducted a Chinese engineer in Ekiti and killed a traveler and abducted others in Osun States. The Chinese expatriate was abducted by the gunmen, who are suspected to be herdsmen at Igbemo-Ekiti in Irelodun/ Ifelodun area of Ekiti State. The Chinese was idenfified as […]

Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, has declared that the State will not provide land for ranching as it believes it is a private business. The governor made the declaration to clarify a tweet by him, which had been misinterpreted to be his support for the Rural Grazing Area, or RUGA policy. He had, after a […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday ordered a stay of proceedings in the trial of former Head of Service (HOS) of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, and eight others on an 18-count money laundering charge preferred on them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The order was given by Justice Taiwo Taiwo, who […]

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has stepped up its probe into All Progressives Congress National Leader, Bola Tinubu. Pursuant to this, the EFCC has written a letter to the Code of Conduct Bureau, requesting copies of Tinubu’s asset declaration form. A copy of the letter which was published by an online publication, The […]