archiveJanuary 11, 2022

Mali’s ruling junta has announced the recall of ambassadors and the closure of borders with West African nations after the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) announced tough sanctions against the government on Sunday. In a statement read on national television on Monday, the military regime’s spokesman Colonel Abdoulaye...

The Federal Government and the United Nations World Food Programme have agreed to scale up the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme as schools reopen in Nigeria. Both parties said they would take the programme to the next level and that the decision came from a joint assessment conducted in the...

Chief Ayo Adebanjo, leader of Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, on Tuesday, said that the group won’t support any candidate for President in the 2023 general election until the current 1999 constitution is changed to reflect true federalism and regional autonomy. The 93-year-old statesman also said there was no big deal...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has endorsed the establishment of the Nigerian Diaspora Investment Trust Fund (NDITF), a private sector investment window with Nigerians in the Diaspora to support direct investments in the country. Speaking on Tuesday at the presentation of a compendium entitled +600 Diaspora Icons ay 60, published by...

spent about N1.4bn on electric bills last year The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, will deliver the 52nd convocation lecture of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Akoka coming up next Monday, January 17, with a total of 12, 217 students from both undergraduate and postgraduate studies graduating....

By Ola Awoniyi When Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan graduated from the University of Maiduguri in 1984 with a B.Sc. degree in Geography, taking an active role in partisan politics was not on his mind. The young man did not consider himself cut for the "dirty game." Rather, his focus was firmly...

The National Universities Commission has said universities should be isolated from the Federal Government’s circular on new employment owing to the shortage of lecturers. The commission also stated that 100,000 academic staff members were attending to 2.1 million students in Nigerian universities. This was disclosed by NUC in its latest...

Former Head of the Interim National Government (INC), Chief Ernest Shonekan, is dead. He died in Lagos at 85, according to sources. Shonekan was chairman of the INC, which succeeded the military junta of General Ibrahim Babangida. He ruled from August 26 to November 17, 1993 until he was overthrown...

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has noted that its servers were not breached and have been fully optimised at the highest international security levels. The NIMC Director-General, Aliyu Aziz, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday and signed by the NIMC Head of Corporate Communications, Kayode Adegoke. The statement...

Standard Chartered Plc is closing about half its Nigerian branches in a pivot to digital banking, according to people familiar with the matter, as the finance industry comes under pressure from mobile money providers. The London-listed lender’s local unit has already started to shut some offices in December and will...