Bank customers to pay N6.98k for USSD transactions
The protracted disagreement between banks and telecom services provided over the pricing of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) has come to a head, with the Central Bank of Nigeria, and…
Wakili remanded, charged for murder, kidnapping
Alleged notorious Fulani herder, Abdullahi Wakili, was on Tuesday remanded in in a correctional facility by an Iyaganku Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Ibadan. Wakili, 70, was charged by the…
Editorial: The military and the war against insecurity
As Nigeria passes through these troubled times, it is important to admit all inadequacies if the times would ever pass and not become permanent. Apart from other dysfunctions within the…
Gunmen on Loose, Kidnap Varsity Students in Ogun, pupils, teachers in Kaduna
It is a black Monday in Nigeria, as gunmen turn their dragnets on educational institutions, kidnapping university students in South West Ogun State, and teachers and pupils in Kaduna in…
First Bank Promotes Cross Border Payment in Sub Sahara Africa with First Global Transfer
First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider, has announced the launch of First Global Transfer (FGT) to promote international transfer of funds across its…
Varsity Teachers Threaten to Resume Suspended Strike
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities have threatened to resume their strike over non-payment of salaries which they suspended three months ago. Ayo Akinwole, chairman of ASUU at…
Troops foil Kidnap Attempt at Another Kaduna School, Rescue 307 students
An attempt by a gang of bandits to kidnap students of the Government Science Secondary School, GSSS, Ikara in Kaduna State was foiled averted by the intervention of federal troops…
Bandits Demand N500m Ransom for Students, Force them to ask Govt to Pay
In one of the most humiliating episodes yet in the kidnapping saga in Nigeria, kidnapped students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization Kaduna, have appeared in videos Saturday appealing…
Monguno Ratracts Accusation against Ex- Service Chiefs
The Nigeria media world was set abuzz on Friday with an allegation from no less a personality than the National Security Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari, Major General Babagana Monguno,…
There’s No Fuel price Increase for now – FG
Contrary to media reports earlier on Friday, the Nigerian government has said that there is currently no plan to increase the price of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol.…