archiveAugust 2020

  Imo State highest with 48.7%, Anambra lowest with 13.1%   The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday released unemployment figures showing that 27.1 per cent of able-bodied and willing-to-work Nigerians were unemployed as at second quarter of 2020. The figure of unemployed Nigerians was 23.1 per cent when...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly seized assets in form of cryptocurrency of up to $2 million used to fund terrorism campaigns, namely the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, al-Qaeda, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), of which includes millions worth of cryptocurrency stashed...

The Board of National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has said that the new Nigeria Broadcasting Code (NB Code) recently announced by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, is illegal and cannot be utilised in regulating broadcasting in Nigeria. However, relying on the new code, the NBC Thursday fined...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday commissioned the 10MW power plant built by Eni Companies in Nigeria and its partners, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The plant will power the headquarters building of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), and other major government and industrial facilities in the State. The power...

The President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said Nigeria was making progress in its efforts to ensure the reversal of the United States’ suspension of the issuance of “immigrant visas” to Nigerian passport holders. His Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, in a statement quoted the President as saying...

The Kano State Council of Jamaat Mosques Imams has mandated the State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, to as a matter of urgency sign singer Yahya Aminu’s Death Warrant, which is before him after an Upper Sharia Court passed the judgement. A Kano Upper Sharia Court had sentenced Yahya Aminu to...

Financial and Tourism Experts have urged the Lagos State Government to ensure the N1 billion seed capital loans approved for MSMEs operating in the hospitality sector of the state are accessible to the right businesses. The N1 billion seed capital loan for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) is an...

Mr Promise Amahah, the President Nigerian Young Farmers Network (NYFN) has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to include more regional and agro-ecological crops in its Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP). Amahah gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday. He...

Amnesty International has called on Kano State government to quash the death sentence on Yahaya Sharif Aminu for blasphemy. It described the sentence as a travesty of justice, saying that there were serious concerns about the fairness of the trial. Aminu, a musician, was recently sentenced to death by a...

The National Association of Seadogs (NAS), Pyrates Confraternity has called on the Federal Government to urgently arrest the insecurity situation in southern Kaduna. A statement signed by NAS Capoon, Mr Abiola Owoaje, and issued to newsmen in Abuja on Thursday said that the Federal Government needed to urgently avert further...