archiveJuly 2019

  A senior official of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), Henry Adewunmi, on Wednesday clarified that the Cambridge University International Assessment Education Result said to have been awarded to President Muhammadu Buhari was not the same as a certificate. One of the grounds that candidate of the Peoples Democratic...

  The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (FGN) has confirmed the 43 ministerial nominees that were screened for appointment into the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari. After the screening that began on Wednesday, July 24 and ended on Tuesday, July 30, the Senate took the next step of...

The Nigeria civil society situation room comprised of 63 organisations that monitored the 2019 elections has said that the polls were not credible. The coalition said that the incredibility of the last general elections speaks of serious questions about the future of polls in the country and its quality of...

The Federal Government on Tuesday officially proscribed the activities of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) otherwise known as Shiites. The announcement was made by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) at a news conference in Abuja. He declared that anyone found associating with them will be declared, and treated,...

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Data from the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) has revealed that 19 per cent of the declined transactions on Point of Sales (POS) terminals all over the country are traceable to customers’ errors. This decline also listed failed PoS transactions at 256,228, indicating a high failure rate of 18.9 per...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned hearing until Aug. 20, in an application filed by the PDP and its candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, challenging the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal’s rejection of their request to access the INEC “central server”. NAN reports that the PDP and Atiku alleged that the ”server”,...

A former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Tunde Lemo, has resigned from the board of GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Nigeria Plc (GSK) as a non-executive director. A disclosure notice sent to the Nigeria Stock Exchange on Monday said the resignation took effect from June 30. “Please be informed...

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