archiveJanuary 2022

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...

  *NSIA to fund Solar Power Naija with N10B as part of 5m households' connections target *250,000 new business names registered, certificates issued all free of charge *All States on course to get N1.7B minimum from Survival Fund, Lagos, Kano & Abia ahead. *Thousands of farmer-exporters trained in food safety,...

Dowen College has appealed to those that have continued to spread alleged malicious information against it over the death of its pupil, Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, to “allow our dear Sylvester’s soul to rest peacefully in our Lord’s arms”. The school made its position known in a statement on Monday after...

  Operatives of the Lagos Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have re-arrested a suspected internet fraudster, Ismailia Mustapha, for laundering funds obtained through unlawful activities and retention of alleged proceeds of crime. Mompha was arrested on Monday, January 10, 2022. The suspect is currently standing trial...

  The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, says he has informed President Muhammadu Buhari of his decision to run for the office of President in 2023. Tinubu revealed this to State House correspondents on Monday after a private meeting with Buhari at the Presidential...

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Cheif Olabode George, has said that the National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu will not become Nigeria’s president. George, in a statement on Monday, disclosed that Tinubu’s ambition to be Nigeria’s leader was a...

  OPENING ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PROF. YEMI OSINBAJO, SAN, GCON, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, AND CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL BOUNDARY COMMISSION AT A MEETING WITH DEPUTY GOVERNORS REGARDING BOUNDARY ISSUES HELD AT THE OLD ASO VILLA BANQUET HALL ON THE 10TH OF JANUARY 2022 PROTOCOLS...

As Nigeria, like other countries, continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, the country continues to record daily fatalities from the disease. On Monday, Nigeria recorded eight deaths from the virus, the country’s disease control centre, NCDC, said. The NCDC disclosed this in an update on its official Facebook page, adding...

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has formally declared his intention to run for the country’s president in 2023. He disclosed this to journalists after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja on Monday. In his interview with State House reporters, Tinubu...