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Some bank customers have frowned at their banks for not complying with the new CBN guidelines for charges on Automated Teller Machine (ATM), released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Some of the customers who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja, regretted that banks had now devised a means of […]

Pope Francis’s attempt to wrest himself from the grasp of an ardent follower this week have left some asking – where was the pontiff’s security detail? Often dubbed the “People’s Pope,” Francis’s ability to engage with crowds – and his apparent relish in doing so – puts him in close proximity with the throngs who […]

The travel measures taken against Nigeria by the United States last year are starting to have a clear and, potentially, long-term effect.   Data from the US travel and tourism office shows Nigeria recorded the largest global drop-off in visitors to the US. As of October 2019, 34,000 fewer Nigerians traveled to the US compared […]

The Federal Government has assured Nigerians that there is no cause for alarm over the country’s debt profile both domestic and external as being speculated by scaremongers. Former president Olusegun Obasanjo had claimed Nigeria’s external debts have grown to N24.947 trillion or $81.274 billion in the last four years. Obasanjo, last Friday in Lagos at […]

The Nigeria Christian Graduate Fellowship (NCGF) yesterday said the alleged lopsided appointments by President Muhammadu Buhari were more threatening to the unity of the country than the activities of the Boko Haram Islamic sect in parts of the federation. Reacting to the execution of 11 Christians on Christmas Day by ISWAP insurgents in Borno through […]

Former governor of Oyo State and the Osi Olubadan of Ibadan, Chief Rashidi Ladoja, has read the riot act to 21 Ibadan chiefs; warning the 21 monarchs sacked by a high court to desist from parading themselves as kings or risk jail. In a statement signed on his behalf by former Commissioner for Justice and […]

The Federal Government said the nation’s non-oil exports doubled from about N1 trillion to N2 trillion between 2018 and 2019. Information and Culture Minister, Alhadji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this at a media briefing in Lagos on Monday where he presented the major achievements of the Muhammadu Buhari’s administration for the outgoing year Mohammed said while […]

The federal government, Monday reacted to the change of name of the UEMOA, Communaute Financiers d’Afique (CFA) currency to ECO by eight French-speaking West African countries, saying it was studying the situation and would respond in due course. A statement issued by Yunusa Tanko Abdullahi on behalf of the Minister of Finance, Budget and National […]

The Joint Task Force (JFT), code named Operation Delta Safe, and the Nigerian Navy on Monday visited former President Goodluck Jonathan’s residence in Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa. The visit was to ascertain the level of damage following attack on the former president’s residence by unknown gunmen on Christmas Eve. They said the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday met with Pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare at the presidential villa, Abuja. No official reason was given for the meeting and the Lagos pastor also did not speak to newsmen on the outcome. Pastor Bakare ran as running mate to President Buhari in the 2011 presidential election […]

What was billed as an attempt to regulate motorcycle-hailing companies aka Bike-Uber, which had become mainstream in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, has quickly turned into something much greater; a vast and intricate web of political and corporate racketeering, involving millions of naira being extorted and funneled to Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his cronies […]

Barely 48 hours to the New Year, more troubles seem to be coming the way of the embattled former Edo state Governor and National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole; who has come under fire for rejecting Christmas gifts from Edo State Government.The conventional Christmas presents reserved for former governors […]