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Deputy Governor (Operations) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Adebisi Shonubi has advocated enabling infrastructure that would improve the growth of financial technology in the country. He said financial technology (Fintech) is still in its embryonic stage in Nigeria ...

Absence of Justice Yusuf Haliru of a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has stalled the arraignment of Bauchi State governor-elect, Bala Mohammed. The governor-elect, who was elected on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform, was to be arraigned on ...

The Ekiti State government has disclosed that three Nigeria Army will soon establish three command secondary schools in the state. Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Foluso Daramola, who made this known in Ado-Ekiti, said arrangements have almost been concluded ...

Nigeria and the Pakistani Navy have agreed to partner in their effort to end piracy and other maritime crimes on Nigerian territorial waters to improve ease of doing business in the country’s seaports. Both countries made the commitment when Pakistani ...

The Northeast zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has disclosed that it convicted 41 persons for corruption related cases out of 81 petitions it received between January and April. Zonal Head of Operations, Michael Wetkas, stated ...

After years of political bickering, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has finally indicated readiness to accept Governor Nyesom Wike’s peace proposal to bring greater development to the state. Senator Andrew Uchendu, who spoke on behalf of state APC members, told ...

Law will worsen poverty, group insists as HURIWA seeks EFCC’s probe Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson has declined signing the bill seeking life pension for former lawmakers as proposed and passed by the state House of Assembly last week. The ...

The Election Tribunal sitting in Kano has struck out a fresh application by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate, Abba Kabiru Yusuf, seeking to extend inspection of election materials. Counsel to Abba, Bashir Yusuf Mohammed, had filed the application in ...

A member of the Presidential Committee on North East Initiative (PCNI), Dr. Sidi Ali Mohammed has disclosed that Boko Haram fighters receive $3000 (an equivalent of N1, 080,000 daily) as allowance, while Nigerian soldiers get a paltry N1000. He spoke ...

The quest to realise the president of Igbo extraction for the country in 2023 may have started in earnest as sons and daughters of the ethnic group gather today in Enugu to inaugurate a pressure group, “Southeast for President 2023 ...