The United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has disclosed that it has been globally recognised as the African Bank of the year 2021 by the Banker Magazine, a leading global
President Muhammadu Buhari departed Abuja on Wednesday to attend EXPO 2020 Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and
Preventing the transmission of HIV from mother to baby is a major challenge in Nigeria. To mark World Aids Day the government is boosting its commitment to ending this by
Governor Babajide Sanwo Olu of Lagos State Tuesday announced that the White Paper on the reports of the state judicial panel on police brutality and the Lekki tollgate shooting of
Content company, BBC Studios on Wednesday, announced that it has secured a major deal with streaming service, ARISEPlay, in Nigeria. The commercial subsidiary of the BBC disclosed this a few
Rihanna smiled under her face mask as she heard her name called in the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday, but hesitated before she stood up. Before her, top Barbadian government officials
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Wednesday morning confirmed the first case of the Omicron coronavirus variant in the country. This was contained in a press release issued by
Telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria, Tuesday announced that its N97 billion public offer to retail investors for the sale of 575 million shares held in the local company by the MTN
Canada on Tuesday banned travellers from Nigeria, Egypt, and Malawi over fears of the spread of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, bringing to 10 the number of African countries targeted
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The minister of state for labour and employment, Festus Keyamo, announced on live television on Monday, that microblogging platform Twitter has agreed to all of the federal government’s conditions, for
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Africa’s leading payments technology company, Flutterwave has announced the launch of its new e-commerce service, Flutterwave Market – an extension of its Flutterwave Store service – that will bring together
Prosecutors urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction, complaining in a petition released Monday the verdict was thrown out over a questionable agreement that the
Following its launch on October 25, 2021, the eNaira applications have registered almost 600,000 downloads. This was revealed by the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele at
Some of the most illustrious names in soccer’s long history only managed to win the Ballon d’Or, the sport’s most prestigious individual prize, once. George Best, Zinedine Zidane and Eúsebio
Travel restrictions imposed on southern African countries and the African continent by world leaders, in a bid to curb the spread of the new Covid 19 variant Omicron, which has
The speed with which the U.S., UK and the EU have imposed travel bans on flights arriving from southern Africa over the Omricon COVID-19 variant has led to condemnation by
Islamic Cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has faulted the Court’s decision to declare proscribed bandit groups as terrorists. Gumi says this will only lead to more military action which has neither
In 1991, two American conservationists, Liza Gadsby and Peter Jenkins, founded the Drill Rehabilitation and Breeding Centre in Cross River State. For the past thirty years, the project has
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