archive2023

  Fearless Energy Drink, the number one energy drink in Nigeria, is celebrating its recent recognition at the BrandCom Awards 2023, where it was awarded the “Most Outstanding Energy Drink in Consumer Engagement.” The event was hosted by Brand Communicator, one of Africa's most esteemed brands and marketing publications, and...

Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Thursday, November 9, 2023, admitted, in evidence, more documents tendered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against Mamman Nasir Ali and Christian Taylor, who are being prosecuted for an alleged N2.2bn oil subsidy fraud. They...

Osun State Government says its attention has been drawn to the purported N25,000 allowance to workers in November currently in circulation. According to a press statement signed on Saturday by the State Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment,  Oluomo Kolapo Alimi, and made available to Business247News, the Commissioner said against...

  intercepts N11, 040,000   Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrested 14 suspected vote buyers in Otueke, Adawari playgrounds in Bayelsa State and at various polling units in Imo and Kogi States. According to a press statement by Mr. Dele Oyewale, the Commission’s Head of Media...

  Around half of Nigerian workers who earn the minimum wage in the country allocate their entire income towards covering their fundamental food requirements. This is according to a survey conducted by SBM Intelligence, a Nigerian geopolitical intelligence platform, and published on their website to highlight Nigeria's escalating inflation and...

  Elections: TMG hails INEC, electorates, security agencies’ performance   The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) hailed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) electorates, and security agencies’ performance during the off-circle governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi States, held Saturday. This was contained in a statement signed by the Chairman,...

Connected Development (CODE) has shed light on significant development raised by its observers during the ongoing off-cycle elections in Bayelsa and Imo states. CODE is using its election intelligence tool – UZABE, to monitor the elections in the three states through thousands of its volunteer observers. The head of deployment...

He hinted that the government would construct a pedestrian bridge in front of the varsity’s main gate to end the knocking down of students by motorists. Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has charged the University of Ibadan to start the process of regaining its position as the intellectual capital...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called on the National Assembly to take appropriate legislative measures to stop off-cycle elections in the country. Jonathan said after casting his vote in the ongoing governorship election in Bayelsa, that it was important for Nigeria to unify its electoral calendar. Jonathan who voted at...

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the November 11, 2023 governorship election in Kogi State, Dino Melaye, on Saturday, raised the alarm over “filled result sheets” in the Ogori/Magongo Local Government Area of the North Central state. The PDP candidate alleged that results sheets were filled in...