AfDB Approves $50m Women Finance For FCMB

The board of directors of African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a loan of $50 million to for First City Monument Bank (FCMB) to channel to Nigerian enterprises and women-empowered businesses in the agribusiness, manufacturing, healthcare and renewable energy sectors. Thirty percent of the funds, which are intended to mitigate effects of the challenging COVID-19…

July 15, 20210Comments

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Kanu Seeks Transfer From SSS Custody To Kuje Prison

Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu has urged the Federal High Court in Abuja to transfer him from the Department of State Services (DSS) custody to Kuje Correctional Centre. Also yesterday, IPOB accused the DSS of denying his doctors access to him. The group alleged that the health of its leader was deteriorating.…

July 15, 20210Comments

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Court Remands Salesgirl In Prison After Arraignment By EFCC For Allegedly Defrauding Employer Of N6m

The Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Apo presided over by Justice A. Babashani on Tuesday remanded a 29-year-old female shop assistant, Nkechi Joseph Benita, in prison following her arraignment by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abuja Zonal Office, for alleged misappropriation of the sum of N6 million entrusted in her hands…

July 15, 20210Comments

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Amaechi Rejects NIMASA Salary Increment Request, Worries About NRC’s Salary Scheme

The Honourable Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi has revealed that he rejected a salary increment request by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) because he preferred to attend to salary increment request from poorly paid agencies under the Federal Ministry of Transportation. Responding to enquiries on the remuneration of railway workers…

July 15, 202115Comments

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Nasir el-Rufai’s Presidency Bid: Fact Or Fiction

The Mallam Nasir el-Rufai as President speculation has refused to die. He recently denied that he had the ambition, just as he did in an August 2020 BBC Hausa Service interview. Then, El-Rufai called it baseless. If El-Rufai had left it at that, perhaps, this piece would never have been written. He said in that…

July 15, 20210Comments

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Ghana’s 560km rail to cost for $2bn — same as 156km Lagos-Ibadan

China Railways Construction Corporation (CRCC) has offered to rehabilitate and construct a 560-kilometre standard gauge railway line for Ghana at $2 billion. Advertisement This costs just $500 million more than the 156-kilometre Lagos-Ibadan railway line being constructed by the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) — although Ghana’s project more than THRICE the size of…

July 5, 20210Comments

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Nnamdi Kanu: Kenya sucked into drama as family, UK demand answers

The British government is seeking clarification on the circumstances under which Nigeria extradited Nnamdi Kanu, a dual citizen of both countries, over crimes related to his secessionist movement, even as his family insists Kenya played a role in his capture. Mr Kanu, whom the Nigerian government labelled a fugitive, was brought to court in Nigeria on…

July 4, 20210Comments

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Re: Open Letter to Ndigbo, by Hassan Gimba

week’s write-up with the above title has generated so many responses that I feel today should be a day for the respondents. Please enjoy. What can be more brotherly than feeling the pain of a brother and providing a way to relieve it? Malam Hassan, as we, your Potiskum people call you, you have shown them the way and…

June 13, 20210Comments

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‘I suddenly remembered why I fell in love with the President’, By Femi Adesina

President Muhammadu Buhari spoke on Tuesday, warning troublemakers in the country that the picnic was over, and the next day, I saw this comment online from a Buharist, as lovers and admirers of the President are known. “I just finished watching the President on TV reading the riot act to troublemakers, and I couldn’t be…

June 5, 2021219Comments

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Video: Nasarawa Governor’s adviser, Chinese national, Police detective arrested over alleged rail tracks theft

A Special Adviser to the Nasarawa Governor, Mr. Yusuf Mada, a Chinese national, Police Inspector, a National Security and Civil Defence Corps officer, and lawyer were among many the Police in Nasarawa State paraded in Lafia, the state capital, for cutting and stealing rail tracks and other parts. Another sum of N650,000.00 was also displayed…

June 2, 20210Comments

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