By Cynthia Alo The mobile telecommunication giant, MTN, has announced a mobile money partnership with Africa’s leading payments technology company, Flutterwave.  In a statement last weekend, MTN said the partnership will allow businesses integrating Flutterwave in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia to receive payments via MTN Mobile Money (MoMo).  MTN MoMo is a fintech […]

By Dayo Johnson Police detectives in Ondo command have arrested the son of a landlord, Samuel Omojola in Akure, the state capital over the death of a tenant. The deceased identified as Kehinde hit with a plant on the head by the suspect during an argument over payment of house rent in Oke-Jebu area of […]

*Says Nigeria has adopted many good measures to sustainably manage its environment By Joseph Erunke ABUJA- PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has charged the global community to respect natural habitats, noting that it was a major way to conserve biodiversity. The president, speaking, Monday, at the 33rd Session of the International Coordinating Council of the Man and […]

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of O3 Capital Limited, Abimbola Pinheiro, has stressed the need for more collaboration between deposit money banks in the country and FinTech firms to deepen financial services in Nigeria.  Pinheiro, who made the call in a chat with newsmen in Lagos also called on Nigerians to embrace cashless transaction and […]

THE Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has enjoined all Nigerians to emulate the presiding bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission, TREM, Dr Mike Okonkwo, for his undiluted love for Nigeria and detribalised disposition towards every Nigerian.

Raymond Edoh, the Executive Secretary of Nigerian Youth Congress, an umbrella body of young people under the Presidency, believes insecurity in the country will end no distant time, if the Federal Government intensifies its war against hard drugs peddlers and drains the huge volume of firearms in the wrong hands.

By Adeola Badru The Chairman of Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS), Professor Banji Akintoye, has declared that all is now set for the million-man freedom march scheduled to hold opposite the United Nations Headquarters in New York, United States of America from September 14 to September 24, 2021. In a statement made available […]

By Peter Egwuatu The Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, has initiated a risk based management rule in the Nigerian capital market. The Commission has also tasked the Risk Management Association of Nigeria, RIMAN, to bring its experience to bear on its exposed risk management rules that would help deepen the capital market. READ ALSO:Mixed trends, as […]

Akwa United of Uyo pinched a 1-0 win from Algerian side CR Belouizdad in Uyo, on Sunday, in the first leg of the CAF Champions League preliminary round clash played at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium. Friday Ubong scored a late winner as he unleashed a powerful shot four minutes from the end of regulation […]

The United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, US-CDC, on Monday, kicked off a two-week capacity building programme in Lagos for Nigerian experts on public health emergency response.

. …As Oyinlola faces rivalry from S/West PDP chieftains By Dirisu Yakubu, ABUJA The inability of the various organs of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to broker truce between suspended national chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus and the Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike is casting doubt over the possibility of holding the national […]

INDEGINES of Otulu in Aniocha South Local Government Area, Delta State, Monday, raised alarm over what they described as oppression, intimidation and harassment by their neighbouring communities of Ogwashi-Uku, Ubulu-Okiti, Issele-Mkpetime and Issele-Azagba.

Enforcers of the sit-at-home order that the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, said it had suspended, forced the students and teachers of Comprehensive Secondary School,  Nkume in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State, to stop the English examination for the West Africa Examination Council, WAEC, on Monday.

By Nkiruka Nnorom The Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) said it facilitated the recovery and restitution of shares valued at N1.436 billion for investors in 2020 in keeping with its strategic focus on investor protection. The NGX also compensated 49 claimants who suffered pecuniary losses with N17.02 million during the year. READ ALSO:Nigeria stock market resumes week […]

•As GTB announces profit decline •MPC outcome to determine this week’s fortune By Peter Egwuatu Bearish sentiment trailed the equities market amid mixed financial performance released by banks last week with investors losing N34 billion. The market capitalisation which represents the worth of the equities in the Nigerian Exchange, NGX, closed lower at N20.455 trillion from […]