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  Protesters hold a Russian flag and a banner with images of (from L to R): General Abdourahamane Tiani, Niger’s new strongman, Burkina Faso’s junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traore, leader of Mali’s junta, Assimi Goita, and Guinea’s junta leader, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, during a demonstration on independence day in Niamey …

The Federal High Court Headquarters, Abuja, on Sunday denied a media report titled “Controversy Surrounds Flying of Judges to London for training by Nigeria’s Asset Recovery Agency, AMCON.” The report claimed that judges, who are currently observing their vacation, were allegedly funded by Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria to attend …

Banks have begun to increase interest rates on deposits in line with the sustained hike in the Monetary Policy Rate, MPR, by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. At its last Monetary Policy Committee, MPC, meeting previous week, CBN raised MPR by another 25 basis points the sixth consecutive raise …

•As NERC grants license to Ekiti IPP Consumers in the country paid N247.1 billion for electricity in the first quarter of 2023, an increase of 1.14 percent compared to N243.65 billion paid in the fourth quarter of 2022, the latest report from the Nigerian Electricity Commission, NERC, has shown. In …

Britain’s Foreign Secretary James Cleverly walks outside Number 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, October 18, 2022. REUTERS/Toby Melville UK Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, has announced a new partnership between Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) and the UK government in Mobilising Institutional Capital Through Listed Product Structures (MOBILIST). Cleverly disclosed this …

Following the withdrawal of her name from the list of ministerial nominees by President Bola Tinubu, Dr. Maryam Shetty blamed life with its characteristic unpredictability for the action, saying, however, she bore no ill will towards anyone. She said being nominated was a validation of her capabilities and a sign …

•Ask President, ECOWAS to tread with care The Senate and the Jama’atu Nasril Islam, JNI, led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, have asked the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, and President of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, and other leaders of the region to …

“It is quite impossible for those who want to gain power to avoid getting rid of those who are most likely to form the opposition” – Critias, 404 BC, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 196. In addition to those in opposition, power-grabbers abhor those likely to form a rival …

  Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has hinted his administration would soon establish a Commission on the Ease of Doing Business. The Governor who disclosed this when he received in the audience a team from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), led by the Abia State Branch Controller, Mr …

Stakeholders in the education sector, including the West Africa Office of the Association of African Universities (AAU), the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the National Universities Commission (NUC) have launched a Framework of Action for Accelerating Academic Excellence (FAAAE) in the Nigerian higher education system. This was unveiled at …