MTN Group and Ecobank Transnational Incorporated have come together to provide mobile financial services across the various African countries where they currently operate.
The partnership, which was announced on Tuesday in Lagos, would see MTN and Ecobank work together in delivering a distinct...
The Central Bank of Nigeria has intervened with another sum of $210m in the foreign exchange market to meet the requests of customers, as the regulator continues its efforts to maintain a stable exchange rate for the naira.
A breakdown of the figures obtained from the bank in Abuja on Tuesday...
A group that seeks to advocate the development of the country and protection of the rights and privileges of its citizens worldwide, Re-building Nigeria Initiative, is set for inauguration.
The Deputy National President of the group, Earnest Fasan, said in a statement on Wednesday that the...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday sentenced a UK visa applicant, Kolawole Viyon, to three years imprisonment for giving false information about his marital status.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission had arraigned Viyon for allegedly lying about his...
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Carl Risch would this week travel to Nigeria to review consular operations at the U.S. Consulate in Lagos.
The U.S. Department of State said Risch would travel to Nigeria, Morocco and Ethiopia from April 15 to 21.
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A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Yaba, Lagos State, on Wednesday ordered the remand of Peter Nielsen, the 53-year-old Danish national accused of killing his wife and their three-year-old daughter.
Peter was arraigned on two counts of murder before Chief Magistrate Kikelomo Ayeye.
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The Lagos State Police Command has arrested five operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad for allegedly harassing a businessman in the state for bribe after seizing his company documents.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chike Oti, said the men were attached to the Ipakodo base...
The University of Lagos has established the Faculty of Engineering Industry Advisory Board to promote what it called ‘Industry-in-Faculty and Faculty-in-Industry’ relationship.
The Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Prof. Funso Falade, made this known at the first Annual General Meeting and second...
Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, yesterday, wrote Nigerians, speaking on the greatest problem of the masses.
According to the cleric, politicians were more harmful to Nigerians than the incessant attacks by Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen.
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The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has predicted a fragile economic growth for 2018.
To achieve this fragile but promising growth, the Committee urged “the government to initiate strong stabilisation programmes and freeze the growth in its aggregate...
Three persons were killed and six injured yesterday in an accident at Ilasamaja Bus Stop on Oshodi-Apapa Expressway in Lagos.
A worker of Makasa Sun Nigeria Limited, a civil engineering construction firm, identified as Odejayi Adebola, and a Ladipo Auto Spare Parts Market trader were among...
A presidential aspirant, Mr. Adamu Garba II, has said that his decision to run for president on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, is not to campaign for President Muhammadu Buhari, noting that he has what it takes to get the party’s ticket.
Garba, who is the founder of IPI...
Policemen attached to the Ijanikin division of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a 24 -year old man, Musendikwu Christian, for killing his grandmother in Otto area of Ijanikin at about 3 am on Monday.
Musendikwu, who was just released recently with his father from prison after...
Lagos State Police Command said yesterday it recovered 188 guns and 280 ammunition between September and last weekend.
Police Commissioner Imohimi Edgal, who spoke at a news briefing in Ikeja, said among the weapons were those voluntarily returned by residents in compliance with directives of...
No fewer than seven major projects at the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA) in Lagos are currently rotting away, with many of them being subjects of litigation, which have dragged on for about 20 years in various courts across the country. This has prevented progress in any of the projects.
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General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor William Kunuyi, yesterday urged Christians in leadership positions to shun corruption and promote paths of good conscience for others to follow.
Kumuyi made the appeal at the last day of the 2018 National Easter Retreat of the...
The Lagos State Police Command has ordered the arrest and detention of the inspector that arrested and detained a woman for recording him assaulting commuters in Lagos.
In a statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chike Oti, the commissioner directed that the inspector...
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Thursday evening urged President Muhammadu Buhari to seriously consider the possibility of granting Lagos a special status to enable it sustain its position as the driver of the nation’s economic growth.
Governor Ambode, who spoke at a state dinner...
A 32-year-old Lagos tailor, Mr. Suleiman Ajenifuja, has been arrested with three suspected human skulls.
The father of two, who also claimed to be working as a street sweeper in Lagos, said he was taking the skulls to an Islamic cleric for spiritual purposes when he was arrested.
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Lagos — The National Human Rights Commission NHRC, has called on politicians to avoid using hate speeches in their campaigns and utterances in the forthcoming 2019 general election to create tension in the country, as all acts of hate speech and election violence will henceforth be investigated...
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