Nigeria: Arteta Targets Champions League Win Against Porto

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta said a thrilling contest between Liverpool and Manchester City lends even more credit to the fact his side sit top of the Premier League with 10 games… Read more »

Africa: Region Not Producing Enough Palm Oil to Meet Demand - Official

ECOWAS Commission's Director of Customs, Union and Taxation, Salifou Tiemtore, has lamented that West African countries are not producing enough palm oil to meet members' needs. Read more »

Nigeria: Senate Slams Three-Month Suspension On Ningi

The Senate has suspended Senator Abdul Ningi for three months over the controversy on the 2023 budget. Read more »

Nigeria: Senate in Rowdy Session Over N500 Million 'Palliative' for Lawmakers

The Senate has been thrown into a rowdy session following revelation of uneven distribution of federal government's palliatives to senators for onward disbursement to their… Read more »

Nigeria: Protesters Ask Edo Assembly to Halt Impeachment Move Against Dep. Gov

Members of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo North have staged a peaceful protest calling on the state House of Assembly speaker, Hon. Blessing Agbebaku, to withdraw the… Read more »

Nigeria: Kidnapping - Concerns Mount Over Poor Kyc By Fintechs Issuing Pos

There are growing concerns over the poor Know Your Customer (KYC) policy by some financial technology companies (Fintechs) while issuing Point of Sales Terminals (PoS) to… Read more »

Nigeria: Passengers' Turnout Dips As Air Fares Skyrocket

Lagos-Abuja return ticket N.4m Read more »

Nigeria: How E-Portal Will Drive FCT-Irs' Target of N250bn Revenue

The declining oil receipt by the federation has seen a gradual decline in federally allocated revenue to sub-nationals, forcing the federating units to put on their thinking caps,… Read more »

West Africa: Addressing Food Crisis in Nigeria

One of the primary drivers of the current food scarcity in Nigeria is the country's struggling economy. The depreciation of the Nigerian currency, the naira, against major foreign… Read more »

Nigeria: Women Got 60 Percent of Dbn's N700bn Disbursements to SMEs

The Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN) has revealed that women entrepreneurs took the largest part of its disbursement to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) which amounted to N700… Read more »

Nigeria: Addressing Housing Deficit, Other Tasks Before New Fmbn, Fha Leadership

On February 15, 2024, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu approved the reconstitution of the executive management teams of two parastatals under the Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban… Read more »

Nigeria: Retirement Planning - Budgeting (II)

Last week we defined what a personal budget is, its purpose, benefits, types and why many people don't budget. Today, we will discuss the principles of personal budgeting and its… Read more »

Nigeria: Sustainability Reporting, Practices Will Boost Economy - Frc

The Financial Reporting Council has said sustainability reporting and practice could help Nigeria unlock foreign capital inflows, attract investments as well as improve the… Read more »

West Africa: Nigeria Hosts Green Finance Conference

The African Guarantee Fund (AGF), in collaboration with the Nordic Development Fund (NDF), has concluded plans to host the 9th Edition of the Green Finance Conference and Trainings… Read more »

Nigeria: Spotlighting On Specialised Dogs At Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport

Travellers passing through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (both local and international wings) in Abuja in the last four to five months would have noticed some dogs… Read more »

West Africa: Binance, Nigeria and the Trouble Worldwide

Binance is widely regarded as the largest cryptocurrency platform globally, facilitating billions of dollars in transactions daily. It has over 179 million registered users as of… Read more »

Nigeria: No Irregularities in Kogi, Imo, Bayelsa Gov'ship Election Results - INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission (NEC) has dispelled claims of irregularities in its results of the off-season governorship elections in Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo states… Read more »

Nigeria: Why 10th N/Assembly Should Reintroduce, Pass Gender Bills - Edo Dep. Speaker

The deputy speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Hon. Maria Oligbi-Edeko, has called for the reintroduction and passage of the five gender bills thrown away by the 9th National… Read more »

Nigeria: Investment in FG's Securities Not Loan, Pencom Clarifies

The Director-General of the National Pension Commission (PenCom), Mrs Aisha Dahir-Umar, has described reports that the commission gave a N10 trillion loan to the federal government… Read more »

Nigeria: Constitution Amendment Waste of Time, Resources - Okorie

An elder statesman, Chief Chekwas Okorie. has said the constitution amendment embarked upon by the National Assembly is a waste of time and resources. Read more »

Nigeria: Data Protection Laws Put to Test As Privacy Breaches Rise

Data privacy breach is a growing concern for Nigerians as more people fall victims to scammers and other criminals who mostly harvest their victims' data through either careless or… Read more »

Nigeria: Over 100 Farmers Trained On Agroecological Best Practices

The Centre for Dryland Agriculture (CDA) Bayero University Kano (BUK), in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, has organised a three-day… Read more »

Nigeria: Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko At 71

It is normal to celebrate those that have impacted societal growth. Some people in humility avoid celebration. Senator (Dr) Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko as he clocked 71 on March 1,… Read more »

Nigeria: Why Parliamentary System May Become Recipe for Inertia, Chaos - Yadudu

Professor Auwalu Yadudu, one of Nigeria's foremost constitutional lawyers, recently retired as an academic from Bayero University, Kano (BUK), where he served as Dean of the… Read more »

Nigeria: Re - Prof. Jibrin's Elite Consensus

The need for elite consensus has been bandied about for quite a while. We are still at it as we are yet to achieve it. Read more »