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Nigeria’s inflation rate rose to its highest level in four years at 17.33% in February, from 16.47% a month earlier, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. This had little impact on the Naira, which remained stable at 485 to the dollar on the parallel market, according to AZA,  Africa’s largest non-bank currency broker by […]Read More

A convoy of the 73-year-old Emir of Birnin Gwari, Alhaji Zubairu Jibril Mai Gwari II, was attacked by some bandits along the dreaded Kaduna-Birnin Gwari Highway. The State Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan confirmed the incident in a statement, saying that, the incident happened at about 4:30 pm on Tuesday. The […]

A lecturer in the Department of Business Management, Covenant University, Ota, Dr Stephen Ukenna, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly raping a 17-year-old student of the institution. Arrest of the 41-year-old lecturer followed a complaint lodged by the parents of the victim at the Ota area command.   The state […]

The Nigerian government has approved the sum of $1.5bn for the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt Refinery, the junior minister in charge of the oil ministry has said.   Timipre Sylva, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, announced this to journalists at the end of the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President […]

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arrested a former Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Dibu Ojerinde, for allegedly misappropriating N900 million.   Ojerinde, who was arrested on 15th March, 2021 in Abuja by operatives of ICPC, is alleged to have committed […]

The protracted disagreement between banks and telecom services provided over the pricing of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) has come to a head, with the  Central Bank of Nigeria,  and the Nigerian Communications Commission agreeing that customers are to pay N6.98 kobo per transaction. The new price, which came into effect today, Tuesday, replaces the […]

Alleged notorious Fulani herder, Abdullahi Wakili, was on Tuesday  remanded in in a correctional facility by an Iyaganku Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Ibadan. Wakili, 70, was charged by the Police along with his sons, Abu, 45; and Samaila, 27, and  another person, identified as Aliyu Manu, 20 before Chief Magistrate Emmanuel Idowu, on a […]

It is a black Monday in Nigeria, as gunmen turn their dragnets on educational institutions, kidnapping university students in South West Ogun State, and teachers and pupils in Kaduna in the north-central. The Kaduna State Government on Monday said it has received security reports of kidnapping of some pupils and teachers in a primary school […]

First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider, has announced the launch of First Global Transfer (FGT) to promote international transfer of funds across its subsidiaries in sub-Saharan Africa. The Bank’s subsidiaries in Africa include FBNBank DRC, FBNBank Ghana, FBNBank Gambia, FBNBank Guinea, FBNBank Sierra-Leone, FBNBank Senegal.   The First […]

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities have threatened to resume their strike over non-payment of salaries which they suspended three months ago. Ayo Akinwole, chairman of ASUU at the University of Ibadan, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. Akinwole said Nigerians should blame the Federal Government if universities are shut down again. […]

  An attempt by a gang of bandits to kidnap students of the Government Science Secondary School, GSSS, Ikara in Kaduna State was foiled averted by the intervention of federal troops in the early hours of Sunday.   Mr. Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs in the state, who spoke at a […]

In one of the most humiliating episodes yet in the kidnapping saga in Nigeria, kidnapped students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization Kaduna, have appeared in videos Saturday appealing to the government to come to their rescue but not with force. The gunmen are demanding a ransom of N500 for the 39 students  – […]