archiveApril 25, 2023

  Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Garu Technologies Limited/Gfud and Buka Limited, Lukman Abiodun Garu, has reiterated the need for the Federal Government to immortalise human rights activist cum democrat, Gani Fawehinmi, who until his demise, was a well-known personality in the country for his kind generosity to the downtrodden.  ...

Unions in the university system may rise against the Federal Government over alleged exclusion of their members in the 40 per cent pay rise for peculiar allowance and arrearsor workers .   The Federal Government had recently approved 40 per cent increase for civil servants in federal ministries, agencies and...

A report from the World Bank has revealed that the Nigerian Diaspora community remitted $168.33 billion to the country in the past eight years.   The remittance was made even as the foreign investments inflow into the country remained unstable during those years caused by a scarcity of foreign currency...

  A fresh motion on notice seeking to stop Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu from being inaugurated as Nigeria’s new President on May 29, 2023, has been instituted at the Court of Appeal in Abuja.   The fresh suit marked CA/CV/259/2023 is instituted by a Presidential candidate in the 2019 Presidential...

  cites Africa's endowments, renewable energy, natural resources, young workforce as compelling channels VP says continent offers solutions for global net zero ambitions global progress in battle against climate change needs Nigeria’s partnership-- UPENN Provost   In order for African countries to attain middle-income status, and societal and individual prosperity...

  Kenyan investigators on Tuesday exhumed 10 more bodies from mass graves linked to a starvation cult, bringing the total number of victims to 83, an AFP journalist at the scene said, as fears grow of the toll spiking even further.   Police have spent days scouring the Shakahola forest...

  The Board of Directors of Unilever Nigeria Plc has considered and approved the resignation of Mr. Carl Cruz as Managing Director with effect from May 4, 2023, and has appointed Mr. Tim Kleinebenne as the new Managing Director with effect from May 5, 2023. This was disclosed in a...

United States President Joe Biden has officially announced his campaign for re-election in 2024 on the Democratic platform. He automatically becomes the frontrunner in a race that could feature his predecessor and Republican opponent, Donald Trump. The American leader’s declaration on Tuesday came on the fourth anniversary of his first...

    Data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed that Lagos, Kano, Ogun, Oyo, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) were the top five states with mobile Internet subscriptions in Nigeria in 2022.   Collectively, the five states accounted for 33.52 per cent (51.90 million) of the...

  Nigerian flag carrier, Air Peace airline, has offered to airlift Nigerians trapped in Sudan back home free of charge. Chairman of the airline, Allen Onyema, on Monday, said the cries of Nigerian students angling to return home to safety were too harrowing to ignore.   While he acknowledged the...