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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has said that it expects all operators in the Nigerian financial system especially bankers to declare their assets latest June 1, 2021. The Commission’s Executive Chairman, Abdulrashed Bawa, gave the ultimatum yesterday March 16, while speaking with journalists at the State House, Abuja after a meeting with President […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has imposed ₦6.98 service charge on Nigerians for all USSD transactions. Customers will pay a flat fee of N6.98 per transaction every time they use USSD services from March 16, a statement jointly signed by the apex bank and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said. The deal was part […]

The United States mission has said that it was prioritising immigrant visa applicants in Nigeria affected by the travel restrictions under Presidential Proclamations 9645 and 9983 signed by former President Donald Trump last year. This followed the Presidential Proclamation signed by President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021, titled, ‘Ending discriminatory bans on entry to […]

The Vatican said Monday that the Catholic Church would not bless same-sex unions, in a combative statement approved by Pope Francis that threatens to widen the chasm between the church and much of the LGBTQ community. Explaining their decision in a lengthy note on Monday, the Holy See referred to same-sex unions as a “choice,” […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged countries not to pause Covid vaccinations, as several major EU member states halted their rollouts of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab. It said there was no evidence of a link between the vaccine and blood clots. Germany, France, Italy and Spain joined smaller nations in halting vaccinations as a precaution […]

The Nigerian government has temporarily banned Emirates airline from operating in the country over its continuous refusal to fly passengers without a pre-boarding rapid diagnostic test (RTD’s). The chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 (PTF), Boss Mustapha, while speaking at its weekly briefing on Monday said the ban will take effect from midnight […]

Ireland suspended the use of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine on Sunday, following reports of blood clots in adults who received the shot in Norway. “The administration of COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca is temporarily deferred from this morning, Sunday 14th March,” a health ministry spokesman told AFP. The move came after Ireland’s National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) […]

Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, has received his first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine was administered by Tomi Coker, Ogun state commissioner for health, on Friday. This was disclosed by Olaokun, Soyinka’s son, in a post via his Twitter handle.     – The Cable

The World Health Organization said Friday there was no reason to stop using AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine after several European countries suspended the roll-out over blood clot fears. The WHO said its vaccines advisory committee was currently looking at safety data and stressed that no causal link had been established between the vaccine and clotting. Denmark, Norway, […]

The family of George Floyd, the Black man who died while being arrested by a white police officer in Minneapolis, has reached a $27 million “wrongful death” settlement with the Minnesota city, lawyers for the family announced Friday. The settlement is the “largest pre-trial settlement in a civil rights wrongful death case in US history,” the […]

A sales attendant, Stephen Akinseloye has told a Customary Court in Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State that his wife, Opeyemi, cooking skill is so poor that she cannot make simple ‘eba’ Akinseloye, who lives in Elewura-Challenge area in Ibadan spoke before the court agreed to his request to divorce his wife of 15 months. “Opeyemi cannot […]

The United Kingdom has introduced a new policy in a bid to curb the recruitment of doctors from Nigeria and other developing countries. The policy does not, however, bar Nigerian doctors from migrating to the UK. This is according to a statement by the UK government titled, ‘UK to strengthen its ethical approach to the […]

Israel Adesanya has been handed a medical suspension for six months, Punch reports. The Nigerian-born New Zealander suffered the first defeat of his professional career on Saturday night to Jan Blachowicz in Las Vegas. As a result of the injuries Adesanya sustained against Blachowicz, it may take as long as September before he is cleared […]

The United Arab Emirates has extended its ban on Nigerian flights till March 20. A statement from the public relations firm for Emirates made available to Punch correspondent said customers from both Abuja and Lagos would not be accepted for travel prior to or including this date. The statement said, “In line with government directives, […]

Two out of every five people working in Nigerian banks are contract staff, analysis of data provided by the National Bureau of Statistics has shown. According to the NBS, as of the end of September 2020, 23 banks operating in employed a total of 95,888 workers. Out of this number, 40,382 of them were contract […]