•Dr. Akinwumi Adesina Jumia Technologies, the NYSE-listed African e-commerce company, has appointed former African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, to its supervisory board as part of efforts to strengthen governance and accelerate its path to profitability. The appointment was approved during the company’s Annual Gener...
•Chief Executive Officer of MTN Group, Ralph Mupita Dangote Industries has appointed the Chief Executive Officer of MTN Group, Ralph Mupita, to the board of Dangote Fertiliser Limited. The appointment was confirmed by the Managing Director of Dangote Fertiliser, Vishwajit Sinha, in an email response to enquiries from Bloomberg. This is as the ...
The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) has announced that a total of 1,185 films were approved and classified between January and December 2025, underscoring sustained growth and activity within Nigeria’s film industry. According to the annual classification report, the films approved during the year spanned a wide range of genres a...
The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board has announced the promotion of 242,202 senior officers across the four paramilitary agencies. The Minister of Interior and Chairman of the board, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, disclosed this while addressing journalists today in Abuja. The minister represented by the Secretary to the b...
•Civil Defence operatives The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) has advised candidates shortlisted for the online Computer-Based Test (CBT) to login 30 minutes each day ahead of the commencement time. This is contained in a statement by the Secretary to the Board, retired Maj.-Gen. Abdulmalik Jibril, tod...
•Immigration personnel The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has directed the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) to immediately conclude the ongoing upload of applicant information in the recruitment exercise for the nation’s paramilitary agencies. The directive follows mounting complaints from ap...
•Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) has revealed that a total of 1.91 million job seekers have applied for various positions in the paramilitary agencies in the current exercise. This was revealed in data made available on the board’s recruitment websit...
•Hajj Bauchi State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board has announced compulsory polio vaccination for all intending pilgrims for the year 2025. The Executive Secretary of the Board, Abdulrahman Idris, made the announcement today during a press briefing at the board’s headquarters in Bauchi. He stated that all the 2,200 intending pilgrims who registe...
•NLC President Ajaero Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has raised the alarm over its removal from the boards of Federal Government agencies and the refusal to inaugurate the board other parastatals it statutory has representatives. NLC in a protest letter to President Bola Tinubu dated July 2, 2024, said The latest was its removal from the [&hell...
•US President Joe Biden America’s most influential newspaper, The New York Times, called in an editorial yesterday for President Joe Biden to step aside and allow another Democrat to challenge Donald Trump for the White House in November. Describing Biden as “the shadow of a great public servant,” the newspaper’s editorial board — which is [&h...

