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Fire is currently raging inside the headquarters of the Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Finance in Abuja. The Ministry’s building located within the Central Business District is also adjacent Federal Secretariat in the nation’s capital. An witness disclosed that operatives of the federal fire service are yet to arrive as at …

Gbenga Daniel Abosede Ogunsola, the wife of a police officer who died at the home of the former Ogun State governor, Gbenga Daniel, has said the family does not believe the official account of how her husband died. Ogunsola, said the family also rejected a N1 million offered them. The …

Students in the Niger Delta region have called for a permanent solution to the incessant strike action by university lecturers in the country, and demanded the inclusion of students in negotiations by the Academic Staff Union of Universities ( ASUU). ASUU on February 14th embarked on a one-month strike over the …

Gbenga Daniel Adeleke Ogunsola, a police sergeant, on Saturday died in the compound of the former governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel, in the Sagamu area of the state. The police officer reportedly died after one of the drivers of Mr Daniel knocked him down while he (the police officer) …

Sarah Ochekpe, a former Minister of Water Resources, has been sentenced to imprisonment by a Federal High Court sitting in Jos over a N450 million money laundering scandal. Ochekpe, who served as Minister under former President Goodluck Jonathan, was sentenced alongside a former chairman of the People Democratic Party in …

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday granted permission to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, to keep the suspended DCP, Abba Kyari for two more weeks to enable the agency complete its investigation. Justice Zainab Abubakar issued the order for Kyari’s further detention while ruling in an …

  There are indications that the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, will next week convene a meeting aimed at resolving issues surrounding the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Those expected to be part of the meeting are the leadership of the Nigeria Inter-Religious …

  Africa focused fintech startup, Social Lender has been announced as the 2022 winner of Rising Stars 4.0 in London region Social Lender, a digital financial service startup was among the top five early stage scale up in the region. Tech Nation’sRising Stars 4.0 is United Kingdom’s most exciting competition …

CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele Between January and December 2021, the Nigerian banking sector’s credit to the private sector rose by N5.1tn or 16.67 per cent, according to data obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria. This was contained in the Money and Credit statistics released by the regulator. The report …

• Ngige: Union has been paid N100b   Education Minister Adamu Adamu yesterday expressed shock over the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to go on strike. He said the contentious issues between the Federal Government were being sorted out. Adamu said this while responding to …