Naira crashes to dollar at official market again
The Naira on Friday depreciated at the official market, trading at N1,596.92 to the dollar. Data from the official trading platform of the FMDQ Exchange, a platform that oversees the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market (NAFEM), showed that the Naira…
Just In: FCCPC imposes $220,000,000 penalty on Meta platforms over ‘discriminatory practices’ in Nigeria
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission(FCCPC) has imposed a $220,000,000 penalty against Meta Platforms Incorporated over alleged discriminatory practices against Nigerian data and consumers. This was disclosed on Friday in a statement signed by Dr. Adamu Abdullahi, Acting Chief…
LG Polls: Court Restrains INEC from Releasing Voter’s Register to Rivers SIEC
Justice Peter Lifu of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from releasing the national voter’s register to the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (Rivers SIEC) for use in the planned local…
IPAC kicks against bill to establish electoral commission for LGs
The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has kicked against a bill to establish the Local Government Independent Electoral Commission. The bill, which was read for the first time on Thursday, was sponsored by Sani Musa, the senator representing Niger east. The…
Ndume Rejects Appointment As Senate Tourism Committee Chair, says, ‘I’m Not Interested’
The Senator representing Borno South, Ali Ndume has rejected the chairmanship of the Committee on Tourism in the upper lawmaking body. Ndume was sacked as the senate chief whip over comments he made criticising President Bola Tinubu’s administration’s running of…
ICYMI: Dangote Refinery Products Inferior To Imported Ones; Nigeria Can’t Rely On Them Alone To Avoid Monopoly – Nigerian Agency, NMDPRA
Farouk Ahmed, the Chief Executive of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has cautioned Nigerians against over-dependence on products from the Dangote refinery. Ahmed highlighted concerns over the consistency and standardisation of the refinery’s output, stating that…
Just In: Planes grounded as global IT outage hits airlines, media, banks
Airlines’ operations in countries like Singapore, the United States and Australia have been disrupted due to a major global cyber outage affecting services. The massive information technology (IT) outage, which began in the early hours of today, also affected banks…
Police nab 13-year-old boy acting as informant for bandits
The police in Katsina have arrested a 13-year-old boy suspected to be providing information to armed bandits. Police spokesman Abubakar Sadiq-Aliyu disclosed this in Katsina. “On July 3, the command, in collaboration with members of the Katsina State Community Watch…
2024 UTME: JAMB releases list of most preferred Nigerian universities by candidates
University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Lagos State University (LASU) and University of Lagos (UNILAG) have emerged the most preferred tertiary institutions by candidates who sat the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). While UNILORIN ranked first with 64.143 applicants, LASU ranked…
Kano Emirate Crisis: Governor presents appointment letter to reinstated emir
Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State has presented a letter of appointment to the new Emir of Gaya Emirate, Aliyu Abdulkadir. The emir is the only one among the five deposed emirs to be reinstated by Governor Yusuf. This followed…