archiveDecember 2021

Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Leo Irabor has ordered 50 Generals in the Nigerian military to tender their resignation with immediate effect, Daily Post exclusively reported. They cut across the Air Force, Army and Navy; around 25 of the senior officers are in the Army. According to the online...

The BudgiT, a data-driven Nigerian civic organisation hasfaulted the Federal Government statistics claiming that 7.9 per cent, representing N1.29 trillion is the allocation to the education sector. BudgiT stated that, instead, 7.2 per cent which is N1.18 trillion was allocated to the education sector in 2022 budget. The organisations who...

At least one person has died in the United Kingdom after contracting the Omicron Coronavirus (COVID-19) variant, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday, the first publicly confirmed death globally from the swiftly spreading strain. Since the first Omicron cases were detected on Nov. 27 in the United Kingdom, Johnson...

  Access Bank Plc will be rewarding its customers with cash prizes, mobile phones, bags of rice and hampers in the XtraWin 12 days of Christmas offer.The Group Head, Products and Segments, Access Bank, Mrs Adaeze Ume, disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria...

The Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed says there might be introduction of new tariffs and levies in 2022 as the economy was now on a recovery path. Ahmed made this known while addressing stakeholders at a public hearing on the 2021 Finance Bill organsied by the House of Representatives...

 The Kogi Government has finally dragged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)  to court over unsubstantiated allegations that it fixed N19.3 billion bailout funds received from the Federal Government.This is just as Justice J. J. Majebi of a Kogi State High Court, also granted an interim injunction restraining the...

The President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, says the National Assembly will pass the proposed 2022 budget before the end of the legislative week. He disclosed this on Monday in Abuja while giving a lecture at the maiden Distinguished Parliamentarians Lecture Series organised by the National Institute for Legislative...

  Leaders of West African countries have agreed to the reopening of all land borders in the region by January 1, 2022. They also welcomed the reopening of already opened borders. This was part of the resolutions reached at the 60th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State...

 The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says only Computer Based Centres that were 100 per cent prepared will be used for its 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The board disclosed this in its Weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar, made available to the News Agency of...

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami, has assured that by 2022, Nigeria would have the largest Fifth Generation (5G) coverage in Africa. Pantami gave the assurance at the auction of the 3.5 gigahertz (Ghz) spectrum organised by Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Monday in Abuja. The...