archiveMarch 16, 2021

 Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has decided to raise the minimum wages of government employees, according to Egyptian Presidential spokesperson Bassam Rady.Rady said in a statement that Sisi gave the directive for the increment of wages at a meeting with the prime minister and finance minister late on Monday. The Egyptian...

 Dr Wale Adegbite, a former Chairman, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Ogun Chapter, has advised the Federal Government to formulate  policy to check population growth in the country.Adegbite, who gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Ota, said that this was...

  The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has warned Nigerians against a third wave of the virus that is already being experienced by some countries. Speaking at the briefing of the taskforce in Abuja on Monday, Secretary to the Government of the Federation and PTF Chairman, Boss Mustapha, said...

Following continuous refusal of Emirate airlines to fly out passengers from Nigeria, the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Monday announced it will ban it from inbound and outbound flight. The ban is expected to take effect from midnight on Wednesday. Emirate and KLM had in the past few weeks...

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has written to security agencies, demanding the tracking down and arrest of some scammers who have been extorting from the public with a view to influencing the posting of corps members. While exonerating its staff, the organisation said the scammers would place advertisement in...

Statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed that Nigeria’s inflation rate rose to 17.33 per cent in February 2021, from 16.47 per cent recorded in January, even as the food inflation up by 108 per cent since 2015. The figure represents the highest inflation rate recorded in...

  As the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) launched NQR payment solution on Monday, the apex bank has directed Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) to commence the adoption of the contactless payment service option in the country. With the new initiative, instant value is generated by simply scanning generated digital code...