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  As part of efforts to promote financial inclusion among the unbanked and underbanked population in Nigeria, innovative telecoms brand, 9mobile, joined Ecobank, Vanguard Newspapers, Sanef, and other stakeholders in the financial sector to brainstorm the germane issues and plot a roadmap to actualizing the cashless policy of the Central...

Ghana’s main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) said on Wednesday that it will not accept the results of the general elections announced by the Electoral Commission (EC) that gave victory to incumbent President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Media reports quoted Haruna Iddrisu, Minority Leader in Parliament, as saying the NDC...

Some candidates that had earlier sat for the Post – Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)  of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) have been recalled to rewrite the examination following the  collapse of the university’s server. The university, in a terse Short Messaging Service (SMS) sent out on Wednesday afternoon, directed...

    The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Mohammed Umar Abba, has called for the deepening of cooperation among anti-corruption agencies in the country towards improved outcomes in the fight against corruption. Abba made the call on Wednesday, December 9, 2020, in a webinar hosted...

Mr Gbenga Lufadeju, the Chairman, Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society  (NMGS) Lagos Chapter, has called for establishment of satellite offices of the Nigerian Mining Engineers and Geosciences (COMEG) within the country and most importantly in the major four geographical zones. Lufadeju made the call during the visit of COMEG Registrar...

Sen. Babafemi Ojudu, Special Adviser on Political Matters to the President, Office of the Vice President, has decried attempt by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to twist a 2015 tweet by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Ojudu, in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, also described the call by PDP Caucus’...

Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, Pensions Reform Task Team (PRTT), collapsed in court on Thursday as his trial resumed at the Federal High Court, Abuja. The drama began when Anayo Adibe, counsel to Maina,  told the presiding judge, Justice Okon Abang, of the Federal High Court, that he would be unable...

  Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, has assured Nigeria and other African countries of access to COVID-19 vaccines as from the end of January through the first quarter of 2021, a statement by the Ministry of foreign Affairs said on Wednesday. The statement quoted Okonjo-Iweala as disclosing...

  Justice C.A. Balogun of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Wednesday, December 9, 2020, adjourned to December 16, 2020 to rule on the admissibility or otherwise of two documents sought to be tendered in evidence by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against Abubakar Ali...

  The Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) has inducted a total of 571 new members as certified chartered practitioners in the field of taxation. Mrs Gladys Simplice, President of CITN, said at the 43rd induction ceremony of the institute in Lagos that the exercise was a mechanism to...