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..plan comes after Lagos said it’s ending the practice Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, has said he will initiate measure to repeal the law that awards pension to all former governors and their deputies who have served in the state.   Abdulrazaq disclosed this in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye, […]

First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider has announced that its mobile banking application, FirstMobile, has been awarded the 2020 Best Mobile Banking App award 2020 in the Global Finance Best Digital Bank Awards 2020. The achievement of this feat is largely attributable to the Bank’s relative strength and […]

Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, who has just been reinstated as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, has debunked rumours going rounds that he had compiled a list of workers to sack or punish.   Ogundipe received a rousing welcome from the university community as he resumed work following his  reinstatement on the orders of President Muhammadu […]

China on Friday broke its silence on the American 2020 presidential election, as it congratulated Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on their victory at the polls.   “We have been following the reaction on this US presidential election from both within the United States and from the international community,” Bloomberg quoted a Chinese Foreign Ministry […]

There are indications that the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic may have pushed Nigerian households further below the poverty line, due to the increase in unemployment rate resulting from the impact of the pandemic, the National Bureau of Statistics has said.   “Individuals from across the consumption distribution have been affected by the crisis but the reduction […]

The Petroleum Products Marketing Company, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, has increased the ex-depot price of petrol to N155.17 per litre from N147.67 per litre.   The PPMC disclosed this in an internal memo with reference number PPMC/C/MK/003, dated November 11, 2020, and signed by Tijjani Ali.   The memo was addressed […]

Jerry John Rawlings, Ghana’s former President, has died of complications from the Covid-19. He was aged 73.    Rawlings had been hospitalized at Korle Bu, the Teaching Hospital of the University of Ghana, Legon, for a week, after he was infected with the Covid-19 virus, before his death on Thursday   He was born in […]

  Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, Philip Shaibu, were on Thursday sworn in for a second term in office.   The Oath of Office was administered around 12 noon by the Chief Judge of the State, Justice Esther Edigin.   In attendance at the inauguration which took place on Thursday at the […]

Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta State, has said that said  that  there sis no Nigerian law that permits Zamfara State to control and manage  gold deposits in the state.   The governor said that  governors of South-South region would soon take up the matter with the Federal Government.    Okowa, who spoke at his 2020 […]

The recent clampdown on #EndSARS protesters by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is an ignominious and reprehensible act of violence against social and political activism and, by extension democracy. It is shameful, embarrassing and unacceptable that in a supposedly democratic government, demonstrators exercising their constitutional rights to peacefully protest against police brutality, could be […]