By Kayode Tokede Naira at the Investors & Exporters Foreign Exchange (I & EFX) window, gained by 0.01 per cent and 0.19per cent against the Dollar and Euro closing at N411.63 and N482.73 respectively. It dropped by 0.14 per cent…
By Kayode Tokede The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) with its stakeholders outlined its digital currency initiative via a private webinar held today. The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele had earlier announced that the bank will be working on a central…
By Kayode Tokede Fidelity Bank Plc on Thursday splashed N39 million on 15 customers in the final draw of its Get Alert In Millions (GAIM) Season 4 savings promo. The cash prizes were in the categories of N10 million grand…
A medical expert, Prof. Caleb Mpyet, has decried the dearth of ophthalmologists in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa. Mpyet, of Department of Ophthalmology, College of Health Sciences, University of Jos, said this while delivering the 97th inaugural lecture series of the university…
Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday sentenced a self-styled customs officer, Yakubu Azeez Afolayan, to twenty years imprisonment having found him guilty of offences bordering on impersonation and job scam. The convict, posing…
The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday arraigned one Ahmed Soetan Adebola before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos. He was arraigned on a six-count charge bordering…
By Tobi Adetunji Two officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have testified against a former Vice Chairman of Lagos Island East Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Mr. Sakiru Kehinde Ashekun. The former council chief was charged with…
At least 3,133 Nigerians were reportedly killed in Nigeria in the second quarter of the year in violent incidents, including attacks by Boko Haram terrorists, militia herdsmen, bandits, armed robbers and others. This is according to SBM Intelligence, a socioeconomic…
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has unveiled 99 metering service providers for the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI). The Commission explained that some of the licenses of the providers were new while it renewed some expired ones. This notice…
The Nigerian Export Promotion Council has disclosed that the N50 billion Export Expansion Facility Programme (EEFP) would increase Nigeria’s non-oil exports to West Africa, building on ECOWAS Trade Promotion Organisations (TPOs) network. This revelation was made known by the Executive…
