Lagos, Nigeria – Leading the charge in mobile-based payments, OPay has pledged to implement a thorough removal process for accounts lacking a Bank Verification Number (BVN) and/or National Identification Number (NIN) starting March 1, 2024. This commitment follows the recent directives from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Know-Your-Customer …

World Bank The World Bank has predicted that Nigerian Gross Domestic Product will grow by 3.7 per cent in 2025. The World Bank in its latest report titled “Global Economic Prospect: Subdued Growth, Multiple Challenges”, projected that the African largest economy will improve by 3.3 per cent up from a …

The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) said the explosion that occurred near a refuse dump outside the Bureau of Public Enterprise premises in the Maitama area of Abuja was not bomb-related. The Police Public Relations Officer in the FCT, SP Josephine Adeh, said this in a statement …

•I have no comment —Adebanjo   AKURE—THE crisis rocking the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, yesterday, deepened, as the Reuben Fasoranti group abolished the position of Acting Leader and Deputy Leader of the group, presently occupied by Pa Ayo Adebanjo and Oba Oladipo Olaitan. But when contacted for his reaction to …

File image of late Whitney Adeniran, the 12-year-old Chrisland School student Mrs Blessing Adeniran, mother of a late student of Chrisland Schools, Opebi, Lagos, testified on Wednesday at the trial of the school and four others for involuntary manslaughter before an Ikeja High Court. She was led in evidence by Lagos …

Leadway Capital & Trusts Limited has enjoined adult Nigerians to discard the phobia associated with writing a Will, stressing that writing a Will is not a death sentence. The company, at a media interactive session in Lagos, explained that a Will is a legal document that outlines how a person’s …

Clem Agba A governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State, Clem Agba, said a former governor, Adams Oshiomhole, led the APC pruning committee to announce that 29 aspirants have been trimmed to six without. The Independent National Electoral Commission fixed September 21, 2024, for …

In this interview, Mr Kunle Adegoke, SAN, dissects the recent judgment of the Supreme Court which reversed the Appeal Court’s nullification of the electoral victory of Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang with emphasis on the miscarriage of justice occasioned by sacked lawmakers in the state and declared that the glaring …

Undercover journalist, Umar Audu, who received his certificate from a Cotonou-based University in Benin Republic like a pizza within six weeks. As the investigative panel constituted by the Federal Government to probe fake universities selling credentials to Nigerians begins its work, critical stakeholders in the sector have called for a …

EFCC officers The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday demanded to see the death certificate of a former Director of Legal, Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Grace Taiga. Taiga’s lawyer, Daniel Alumun, had on November 4, 2023, informed the Federal Capital Territory High Court that his client had died. Taiga …