archiveApril 3, 2024

  Following some amendments to the Student Loans Access to Higher Education Bill, President Bola Tinubu has signed it into law. The Presidential assent is sequel to separate considerations by both the Senate and the House of Representatives of the report of the Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund. It...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will, on Thursday, arraign Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, two top officials of Binance Holdings Ltd, on five counts of money laundering charges. It was gathered on Tuesday that Binance, Mr Gambaryan and Mr Anjarwalla, who escaped from lawful custody on March...

  The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) collected N1.3trillion in the first quarter of 2024 (Q1 2024), according to its Comptroller General, Adewale Adeniyi. He attributed the feat to the dedication of the officers and cooperation with stakeholders, besides the suppression of smuggling and accelerated trade facilitation. Addressing reporters in Abuja...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the Federal Government to make retirement easy for Nigerian workers, especially now that the country is facing economic challenges. NLC President, Joe Ajaero, made the appeal on Wednesday when he received a delegation from the XEM Consulting Limited, a subsidiary of XEM...

  Nigerian commercial banks have instituted withdrawal limits on their automated teller machines (ATMs), with variations observed across different banks, according to an investigation by TheCable. This development traces back to the cash scarcity episodes experienced in parts of Nigeria in the latter half of the previous year. The Central...

A former President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ali Chiroma, is dead. Chiroma died on Tuesday night at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital in Borno State after a brief illness. He died at the age of 91. President Bola Tinubu has since sent his deepest condolences to the...

The Federal Government, through the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), has announced an upward review of electricity tariffs for customers in the “Band A” category. NERC Vice Chairman, Musiliu Oseni, who announced this during a press conference in Abuja, on Wednesday, said the new rate taking effect from Wednesday, April...

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has apologized to the Christian community in Nigeria over its Easter advertorial on the resurrection of Jesus Christ. “Our attention has been drawn to a statement by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) about a flier posted on our social media platforms with the...