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  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 …

By Akinwale Kasali 24 hours, after calling out All Progressives Congress, APC, National Leader and Presidential Aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and former Interim APC National Chairman, Bisi Akande, over the re-election ambition of Governor Gboyega Oyetola, Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, is swimming in troubled waters. Speaker of the …

Prof. Tunde Samuel, a close ally and top political strategist of the Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is dead. Sameul, a chieftain of the APC in Lagos State is also a prominent member of the influential Governor Advisory Council (GAC), the elite group …

Hon. Abdullahi Mahmud Gaya,  the chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum (Downstream),  has assured Nigerians that his committee will ‘handle’ companies that imported methanol-blended Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) into the country. The chairman was responding to a question during the committee’s engagement with management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company …

Mele Kyari, group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPC), has  said that fuel queues will normalize in a few days. Kyari gave the assurance when he addressed the House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), on Wednesday on the situation which was caused by methanol-blended Premium …

Adamu Adamu, Minister of Education Adamu Adamu, minister of Education, has said that he is not sure if federal government could meet the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The union had declared a 30-day warning strike on Monday over the federal government’s failure to honour the …

Given the phenomenal promise and the prospects of Nigeria as an anticipated leading light of the black and African world back in the day, many are at a loss as to how low the nation has sunk presently. On the other hand, there is also the glaring challenge of who …