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Nigeria’s Currency in circulation (CIC) in Nigeria dipped by 235.03 per cent to 982.09 billion at the end of February 2023 from 3.29 trillion announced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in October 2022 on the heels of the Naira redesign policy. The latest figures from the apex bank...

Unilever Nigeria has disclosed that it will be exiting the home care and skin cleansing markets to reposition its business for sustained profitability. This was revealed in a corporate notice to the Nigerian Exchange Limited and signed by its Company Secretary, Abidemi Ademola. The company said that it was changing...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has set guidelines for the registration of the 2023 Direct Entry (DE) nationwide to check the high level of forgery of the A Level certificate used for the registration. In a press briefing on Monday in Abuja, JAMB’s Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede announced...

Legal luminary and respected elder statesman, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN) has charged newly elected senators and members, House of Representatives from Ekiti State to use their new status to attract development to the state, using necessary connections and lobbying processes. Aare Babalola, who gave the charged in Ado Ekiti on...

Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, has likened attacks by thugs allegedly affiliated to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the March 18 governorship election in Lagos to war crimes. The PDP leader, in a statement on Monday, said the attacks were crimes...

  Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has congratulated his counterparts in Oyo Seyi Makinde; Lagos, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Bauchi, Senator Bala Mohammed on their re-elections. Wike,in a statement by his Special Assistant, Media, Kelvin Ebiri, said their re-elections in a free and fair processes spoke volume of the country’s advancing democracy....

The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Oyo State, Sen. Teslim Folarin, has congratulated Gov. Seyi Makinde on his victory in the March 18 governorship election in the state. Folarin’s congratulatory message is contained in a statement personally signed by him and made available to newsmen on Monday in...

Popular musician and lawyer, Folarin Falana aka Falz has tackled Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu over his re-election as Governor of Lagos State. It would be recalled that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday declared Sanwo-Olu winner of the governorship polled having polled a total of 762,134 votes to win...

    A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has described Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly elections in Lagos State as a disgrace to the country. The governorship election was a three-horse race among incumbent Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress; Olajide Adediran of...

Two researchers in the Department of Food Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, University of Ilorin, Professor J. O. Olaoye and Dr. M. O. Sunmonu, have won £141,959 (about N788, 862,483.27k) grant from Innovate UK for the 2022/2023 Africa AgriFood Knowledge Transfer Partnership (AAKTP). The award was granted to the...