The Nigerian Army says the troops of Operation Lafiya Dole, have eliminated scores of the Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists on Saturday in Borno. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Yerima, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said the...
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Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, Minister of Communications, Dr Isa Pantami, and the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Communications Commission, Prof Umar Danbatta, would on Monday meet banks and telecoms operators over threat by telcos to disconnect Unstructured Supplementary Service Data to banks today. The...
MTN Nigeria has announced the acquisition of additional 10MHz spectrum in the 800MHz band from Intercellular Nigeria Limited. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) approved the transaction and assigned the frequency to MTN Nigeria. The leading mobile telcoms operator said the acquisition will significantly improve customer experience, in line with...
A Nigerian firm, Zenith Carex, has been blacklisted by Global Fund for an alleged $3 million fraud. Zenix was accused of systematically inflating invoices for the distribution of health commodities to warehouses and health facilities throughout Nigeria. In its latest report published March 9, the Office of the Inspector...
Popular Nigerian music star, Davido, has finally reacted as his colleagues, Burna Boy and Wizkid, won their first Grammy Awards A number of fans were anticipating the Risky’s crooner’s reaction to the news seeing as there are tensions between them Davido said that their Grammy achievement was a big...
None of the six states in the Northeast region of Nigeria is contributing for the pension of its workers under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS), a record has shown. According to the record from the National Pension Commission (PenCom) obtained on Sunday, the states were at various stages of...
Many pro-Biafra groups, at the weekend, gathered at Port Harcourt, Rivers State, to form a self-indigenous government called Biafra De facto Customary Government, headed by Mujahid Dokubo Asari and other estranged associates of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu. The new group,it was gathered, would take care...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered 120 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 160,657. As at Sunday (14th, March 2021), the public health agency also recorded no COVID-19-related deaths, leaving the total fatalities...
Beyonce made Grammys history Sunday by becoming the winningest woman in the history of the music industry’s top awards gala, and its most decorated singer. She secured the record after winning Best R&B Song for her hit “Black Parade,” a single celebrating Black culture and activism that dropped in...
Ayo Balogun popularly known as ‘Wizkid’ has won his first-ever Grammy Award. The Nigerian superstar won his first-ever Grammy Award for his collaboration with Beyoncé and Blue Ivy on the song “Brown Skin Girl”. This was announced at the Premiere Ceremony of the 63rd GRAMMY Awards. The song ‘Brown...
Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Femi Falana says the Federal Government earlier frustrated the trial of former Governor, James Ibori, in the United Kingdom. On Sunday, the rights advocate alleged that the Nigerian Government through its Attorney-General of the Federation, Michael Aondoakaa, challenged the investigation of Ibori in the...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi- The Police in Bauchi have express anger over an attack by gunmen who attacked Naborodo Safer Highway Patrol Axis of the State Command along Bauchi – Jos road, killing a 35-year old Inspector and one other person. The Bauchi State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP...
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...
Nigeria music star, Burna Boy has won The Best Global Music Album at the 2021 Grammy Awards. His album Twice as Tall won the award over records by Antibalas (FU Chronicles), Bebel Gilberto (Agora), Anoushka Shankar (Love Letters), and Tinariwen (Amadjar). The win marks Burna Boy’s first Grammy Award...
Police have shot dead two kidnappers in the Naharati community, in Abaji Area Council, FCT. They were killed during an exchange of gunfire with the police, who were aided by members of a vigilante group, when they attempted to abduction 4 persons in the area, including a minor. The...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court in Abuja “to restrain and stop President Muhammadu Buhari and the Federal Government from borrowing an estimated N895bn of Nigerians’ money in the form of their unclaimed dividends and balances in dormant accounts, under...
President Muhammadu Buhari has been asked to honour international obligations on corruption so as to strengthen the various anti-corruption laws and improve the capacity for citizen participation. The request was made on Sunday during a one-day summit on Assessing Key Development in the Anti-Corruption Regime-Focusing on the Proceeds of...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Ibrahim Attahiru has commended troops of Sector 2 Operation LAFIYA DOLE for their exploits and achievements in dislodging the Boko Haram insurgents and Islamic States West Africa Province criminals from their claves within the Timbuktu Triangle during the first phase of Operation...
In my precious write up, the piece centered on ways by which the youths contribute to the societal unrest such as getting themselves involved in banditry, kidnapping, cultism, internet fraud and such like. Nevertheless, it will not be irrelevant to ascribe the youths’ misbehavior to the failure of the...