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Over 50 per cent of Nigerian women are offline, with no access to the internet, while 20 per cent were less likely than men to own smart phones, creating an exclusion gap, the United Nations Children’s Fund lamented on Monday. The organisation also expressed concern over the rate at which adolescent girls in Nigeria drop […]

Nigerian naira on Monday opened the week’s trading at N570 per dollar at the market – as vice president Yemi Osinbajo called for the devaluation of the currency. Street traders across forex markets in Lagos quoted the naira at N570 to a dollar. Since the suspension of trading information by abokiFX — citizens have resorted to street […]

A former governor of Anambra State and vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 general elections, Peter Obi, has said he was a trader who ventured into banking before he became a governor. Obi said this during an interview on The Morning Show, an Arise TV programme that aired on Monday. This is amid […]

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says President Muhammadu Buhari is Nigeria’s most popular politician in generations. The Vice President said this during an interactive session with top officials of Nigeria’s High Commission in the United Kingdom on Saturday. Osinbajo said the popularity and credibility of Buhari are crucial factors needed in galvanising the entire system to resolve […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday said improving security, the economy and fighting corruption are still the core priorities of his administration, six years after the triad of promises first won him the presidential election. The President made the remark in Kaduna at the Passing Out Parade for Cadets of 68 Regular Course (Army, Navy and […]

Marketers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, well known as cooking gas, on Saturday, expressed worry over the supply shortage leading to persistent increase in the price of the commodity. They warned that 12.5kg of cooking gas currently selling between N7,500 and N8,000 could rise to N10,000 before December if nothing was done to address the crisis. […]

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed says he is “yet to see a leader as patient, tolerant and understanding as President Muhammadu Buhari”, especially in the running of affairs of the country. The Minister stated this on Friday in Abuja when he received a delegation from African Union Development Agency – NEPAP  […]

Governor Willie Obiano met with President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday during which they discussed the security situation in Anambra State and the November 7 governorship election in the state. Their meeting came a day after the attorney-general of the federation, Abubakar Malami, said the federal government was contemplating declaring a state of emergency in Anambra. After […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigerians have a right to be concerned about recent borrowings by the Federal Government. He, however, stated that the debt level of the present administration was within sustainable limits. The President said this on Thursday while presenting the 2022 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of lawmakers at the […]

President Buhari on Wednesday met with former President Goodluck Jonathan. The meeting was held behind closed doors inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja, after the meeting of the Federal Executive Council presided over by Buhari. The former President arrived for the meeting at about 4pm. He did not speak with State House correspondents at the end […]

The clamour by the South East for an opportunity to produce the next President in the February 2023 general election may have eventually materialized. Former Governor of Abia State and the Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu on Wednesday revealed that he was been pressured to be the South East candidate for […]

The Nigerian Communications Commission has disqualified anyone below the age of 18 from registering and owning a Subscriber Identity Module in Nigeria. This is according to the draft copy of the modified Registration of Telephone Subscribers Regulations published on the commission’s website. In the modified regulations, NCC limited telecoms subscribers to only include anyone above […]

As a way of encouraging more Nigerians to take up career in teaching, the Nigerian government has announced the payment of N75,000 per semester for every student of public universities studying education programmes. Similarly, students of colleges of education are also billed to receive N50,000 per semester. The minister of education, Adamu Adamu, made the […]

Ikeja Electric (IE), has announced the planned reconductoring of 132KV lines embarked upon by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), aimed at expanding the capacity to wheel more power. Jide Kumapayi, the Chief Technical Officer, Ikeja Electric (IE), who made the disclosure while addressing journalists, said the upgrade by the TCN could not have come […]