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  Abubakar Shekau’s faction of Boko Haram, has released a video claiming responsibility for the killing of at least 43 rice farmers in Zabarmari. In the video obtained by HumAngle, Shekau said the farmers were killed for collaborating with the Nigerian army. According to him, some of the farmers arrested...

The second stream of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) would take off from Thursday, December 3, 2020, the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on coronavirus has announced. Chairman of the PTF and Secretary to the Government of the Federation SGF Mr Boss Mustapha, disclosed this during the task force’s media...

Unimpressed by the Federal Government’s efforts to fight Boko Haram, the Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, has made six recommendations to the apex authority, one of which is to recruit foreign mercenaries to help resolve the Boko Haram reign. Zulum made his suggestions while receiving a federal government delegation...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced that beneficiaries of diaspora remittances through the International Monetary Transfer Operators (IMTO) will now receive such inflows in foreign currency (US Dollar) through the designated bank of their choice. CBN in a statement signed by O.S. Nnaji, Director of Trade and Exchange,...

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said he has directed the nation’s Armed Forces to take the anti-terrorism fight to the insurgents. According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President disclosed this in a message he sent through his Chief of...

 The nation’s bourse closed for the last trading day in November with a growth of 0.45 per cent following price appreciation posted by Airtel Africa and 16 other stocks. Specifically, the All-Share Index on Monday rose by 156.63 points or 0.45 per cent to close at 35,042.14 compared with 34,885.51...

  reinforcing innovation and enterprise   Central Securities Clearing System (CSCS) Plc, Nigeria’s capital market infrastructure, was decorated with the Securities Services Company of the Year award at the eight edition of the reputed Banks’ and Other Financial Institutions (BAFI) Awards 2020. The Judges’ decision, a product of a rigorous...

The Ekiti State Government has resolved to put measures in place to address the problem in hike in the prices of goods and services across the state. The resolution was part of the decisions reached at a meeting the state governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi held with leaders of Transport Unions...

The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC0) on Monday, November 30, 2020, arraigned Osita Ojeah, his company, Homeland and Overseas Limited, and Anthony Nwosu before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos State on a two-count charge bordering on stealing...

Justice T. B. Adegoke of the Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State today November 30, 2020 sentenced Onus Osagie Amahian, a former staff of Access Bank, to five years imprisonment. Amahian was prosecuted by the Benin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a...