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  The Central Bank of Nigeria is reported to be preparing to retire approximately 1,000 employees as part of a strategic workforce realignment. A severance package worth over N50 billion was said to have been allocated as the payoff for ...

  The General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, MFM, Daniel Olukoya, has declared that Nigeria needs divine intervention through prayers. Olukoya said God is showing that man kind is helpless with the issue of insecurity in Nigeria. The ...

  Dozens of people have reportedly been k!lled in Guinea after a clash between football fans at a match turned violent. Unverified reports from N’Zerekore, Guinea’s second largest city, have claimed that around 100 people are de.ad and local hospitals ...

  A fire incident, which occured in the early hours of Monday razed shops and destroyed property worth millions of Naira at the Moniya Garage in Ibadan. Mr Yemi Akinyinka, the General Manager, Oyo State Fire Services Agency, made this ...

  Republicans accused President Biden of lying and corruption after the president’s stunning Sunday night reversal to pardon his son Hunter – but the deeper cut came from a prominent member of his own party. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a ...

  A fire broke out at Trademore Estate, a well-known neighborhood off the Umar Musa Yar’Adua/Airport Road in Abuja, early Monday morning. The cause of the fire is still unclear, but a resident named Joe reported being alerted to the ...

  Pastor Enoch Adeboye has spoken to his congregation about the importance of staying true to their faith. He shared a shocking story about a pastor who was arrested for using a common greeting. This incident showed how quickly the ...

  Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has alleged that only Lagos and Rivers states stand the chance of benefitting from President Bola Tinubu’s tax reform bills. The governor who appeared as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, said the ...

Human Rights lawyer Deji Adeyanju has accused Grammy-winning Nigerian artist Burna Boy of using oppressing Speed Darlington with his influence. Adeyanju raised these allegations while addressing the detention of Speed Darlington, who was reportedly arrested shortly after returning to Nigeria. ...

  Belgian s3x workers have gained the right to sick days, maternity pay and pension rights under the first law of its kind in the world. Lawmakers voted in May to give s3x workers the same employment protections as any ...

  President Bola Tinubu has said that Nigerians were living a “fake good life” prior to the removal of the fuel subsidy. Speaking at the 34th and 35th combined convocation ceremonies of the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) in ...

  Wema Bank Emerges Overall Winner for the Third Time at Nigeria Bankers Game 2024 Wema Bank, Nigeria’s most innovative bank and pioneer of Africa’s first fully digital bank, ALAT, has reaffirmed its dominance by emerging as the Overall Winner ...

  President Bola Tinubu is set to depart France on Monday for Cape Town, where he will co-chair the 11th session of the Nigeria-South Africa Bi-National Commission (BNC) alongside President Cyril Ramaphosa. According to a statement on Sunday by Bayo ...

  The Lagos State Government has neither banned sachet water nor plans to do so, Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, clarified on Sunday. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Wahab responded to a viral video showing ...

  Former Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, has urged Nigerian youths to embrace meritocracy and performance while rejecting tribalism and religious divides. Speaking as the keynote speaker at the 16th Annual Founder’s Day and 20th Anniversary of the ...

  The Federal Government has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Republic of France aimed at enhancing and diversifying the critical mineral value chain in Nigeria’s solid minerals sector. This was revealed in a statement on Sunday ...

  The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) at Sa’adu Zungur University (SAZU), Bauchi State, has initiated an indefinite strike to demand better conditions of service from the university management. The chairperson stated that the congress observed the university administration’s ...

  A Magistrate Court sitting in Oye Ekiti, Ekiti State, has sentenced a passenger, Kazeem Abdullahi, to a month in prison for attacking patrol operatives of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC). The officers were assaulted while performing their lawful ...

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the World Trade Organization (WTO) chief, was reappointed for a second term on Friday, amid concerns over the potential return of Donald Trump and his opposition to international trade rules. Okonjo-Iweala, the first woman and first African ...

  A devastating boat accident occurred in the early hours of Friday along the Dambo-Ebuchi sections of River Niger, resulting in the loss of multiple lives According to eyewitnesses, the boat, which belonged to one Musa Dangana, was carrying over ...

  The operational capacity of the newly rehabilitated Port Harcourt Refining Company came under intense scrutiny on Thursday. This was following claims that petroleum products loaded from the facility on Tuesday were not newly refined but products stored in the ...

  NOVA Bank has received the globally recognised ISO 27032 Cybersecurity Standard certification. The new commercial bank said that the achievement was a major milestone in its commitment to safeguarding customer data and digital operations. The ISO 27032 certification focuses ...

Parallex Bank has rewarded customers with cash prizes, airtime, and other exciting gifts in the first draw of its nationwide Save and Win Promo, held in Warri, Delta State. According to a statement from the bank on Tuesday, the first ...

A 16-year-old student of Everest Heights Int’l Academy, Gwagwalada-Abuja, Tehilah Isimah, has emerged as the overall winner of the 14th edition of the National Essay Competition of UBA Foundation. Isimah emerged the winner at the grand finale of the contest, ...

A total of 54 exhibitors are expected to showcase at the inaugural Design & Build Expo organised by Ecobank and its partners. This was disclosed by the Head, SME, Partnerships and Collaboration, Omoboye Odu, at a media briefing at its ...