A 37-year-old driver, Elijah Shokoya, accused of involuntary manslaughter alleged in court on Monday that police officers assaulted him to obtain his statement. Shokoya was accused of causing the death of one Mr Olawale Akinmade, an officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) on Jan. 26, on the Ikorodu Expressway, Lagos. The News […]

By Etop Ekanem Binance, the world’s leading blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider has announced that Beninese-American Hollywood star and model, Djimon Honsou and famous Nigerian painter, Laolu will be exhibiting their digital artist series, “Time To Heal,” on the Binance NFT Marketplace. This collaboration is for Binance Charity’s NFT For Good Campaign, which enables […]

Russian President, Vladimir Putin has called on the military to build more medical facilities for the rapidly growing number of Covid-19 patients. Putin said at a meeting with Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu on Monday, that the additional facilities should relieve the burden on the health system. The number of new coronavirus infections is now exceeding […]

By Gabriel Ewepu THE Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Arc Olamilekan Adegbite, Tuesday, assured that the 5th Nigeria Mining Week will be the best for investors and will change narrative in the nation’s mining sector. Olamilekan gave the assurance during a press briefing ahead of the Nigeria Mining Week with theme, ‘Seven reasons to […]

By Juliet Umeh Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, licensed fintech platform, is on course to grow its active subscriber base to over three million by 2022, data released by the company has shown. The mobile money platform, the leading provider of digital services for e-commerce shoppers in Nigeria, is one of the thriving subsidiaries within […]

By Chuks Iloegbunam I write this letter with a very heavy heart. For some time now I have watched events in Nigeria with alarm and dismay. I have watched particularly the chaos in my own state of Anambra where a small clique of renegades, openly boasting its connections in high places, seems determined to turn […]

By Chris Onuoha “Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh”… Marriage is the intimate partnership between a man and a woman…so that they might become one body and might be fruitful and multiply…Though man and woman are equal as God’s […]

…our economy has lost its productive capacity  ..we are practicing “feeding bottle federalism” By Ike Uchechukwu Former Senate Leader, Sen. Victor Ndoma Egba ,SAN has asserted that Nigeria’s Federal structure as it stands was no longer workable as the centre has become overburdened coupled with our economy losing productive capacity. Ndoma-Egba who made the assertion […]

By Elizabeth Adegbesan The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, Hassan Bello, has said there is the need for bank customers to be enlightened on bank charges. Speaking at a three day Workshop with the theme: “Enduring Extreme Disruption–Resilience & Reinvention for Banking System Stability and Deposit Insurance,” organized for Business Editors […]

By Etop Ekanem Group CEO of Pan-African fintech company, Cellulant, Akshay Grover, has said regulators need to create a level playing field for players in Africa’s digital payments ecosystem and ensure that the cost of transactions charged to end consumers using such platforms is reduced.  Grover said this during a recent appearance on Arise TV’s […]