AZA Finance Acquires Exchange4Free to Become Africa’s Biggest Non-Bank FX Treasury Provider
Marking the latest in a wave of consolidation spurred by disruption to the global digital payments system, AZA Finance has agreed to acquire cross-border payments specialist Exchange4Free, making it the…
Osinbajo Heads Panel on worsening poverty
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is to head a new body charged with the implementation of policies to fight Nigeria’s worsening poverty level, the government has announced. At its weekly meeting…
Reps to Buhari: Declare State of Emergency on Security Now
The House of Representatives on Tuesday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency on security without delay, to contain the deteriorating level of insecurity in the country.…
SERAP, PDP, Editors Condemn Sanctions on Channels TV, Call for Reversal
Various organisations have condemned the sanctions imposed on privately owned Channels TV by the Nigerian government, calling for an immediate reversal. Condemnations for the action have come from the Socio-Economic…
Bandits kill two More Greenfield varsity students
The bandits who kidnapped students of Greenfield University in Kaduna State have killed two more of the students. They had killed three of the students four days ago, after demanding…
APC Adherents go Biblical, say Pantami’s ‘conversion’ similar to Apostle Paul’s
The Advocates Forum of the ruling All Progressives Congress has turned to the Bible to justify the government’s positon that the embattled Sheikh Isa Ali Pantami, Minister of Communications and…
Editorial: Barbaric killing of Kaduna University students
The gruesome and cold-blooded murder of three of the abducted students of Greenfield University, Kaduna, whose bodies were dumped close to the institution last Friday, is yet again another wicked…
Troops kill IPOB commander, others in Coordinated operation
Nigeria’s security forces in the early hours of Saturday killed an alleged top commander of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), other militias and arrested several others in a well-coordinated…
Attack on Uzodinma’s House came Day After He Asked Govt to Name Sponsors of Banditry
The attack on the country home of Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State came a day after he asked security agencies in the country to published a list of politicians…
Gunmen raze Uzodinma’s country home, kill security aides
Unidentified gunmen on Saturday attacked the country home of the governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State. The attackers set ablaze Uzodinma’s house in his village, Omuma in the Oru East…