•The protesting union members Members of the Food, Beverages and Tobacco Senior Staff Association and the National Union of Food, Beverages and Tobacco Employees have called on the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control to provide empirical evidence showing that sachet alcoholic beverages are being consumed by children, a...
•Drivers’ licence, number plate Nigerians have continued to express frustration over the rising cost of living since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu assumed office. Many lament that the prices of basic commodities and essential services have doubled—or in some cases, tripled—without any sign of relief in sight, reports Daily Trust. In the last one...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate today asked the federal ministry of telecommunications and digital economy to engage with telecom operators with a view to addressing the recent increase in the cost of data and other services. This was sequel to a motion sponsored by Senator Asuquo Ekpenyong (APC, Cross River South) during plenary, reports Daily Tr...
•Students in class Pegging the entry age for tertiary education has been generating concerns in the country in recent times, with many saying 16 years is the way to go as against 18 years stipulated in the National Policy on Education. The issue escalated last year when the immediate-past minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, […]
Airtel Nigeria, the country’s second-largest telecom operator, has revised its data pricing structure, implementing a tariff adjustment of up to 50 per cent, according to details published on its website yesterday. The price revision, which affects various data bundles, aligns with ongoing industry concerns over escalating operational costs, r...
•Tinubu The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has given President Bola Tinubu 48 hours to reverse the recent 50% telcos tariff hike. SERAP, in a statement, said failure to do so by the Tinubu administration means they will be charged in court, reports Vanguard. “The Tinubu administration and telcos must immediately rever...
As the set date of Friday, December 13, by the telecom industry regulator, the Nigerian Communications CommisÂsion (NCC), for the announcement of a new tariff plan for service providers approaches, the telcos’ subscribers union has set a benchmark for the upward reÂview of call and data prices. While some customers are expressing fears of the ...
An investment firm, Barbican Capital Ltd, has dragged First Bank Nigeria Holdings FBNH, before a Federal High Court in Lagos over the alleged alteration of its 5.4billion shares by the bank. In the suit no. FHC/L/CS/ 1172/24, filed on its behalf by Bode Olanipekun, SAN, Barbican Capital claimed that over the years and at different […]
The plan by telecommunication operators in Nigeria to hike tariffs for data and voice calls appears not to have gone down well with Nigerians, warning that any move to further impoverish them would be resisted. The planned resistance is coming on the heels of a joint statement released yesterday, by the Association of Licensed Telecom [&hellip...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has approved an extensive census of schools in Nigeria from primary to tertiary level, their conditions and live-in facilities, proximity to one another, and educational infrastructure among other data points. The stocktake would also include ascertaining the number of all teachers in Nigeria, their qualifications...
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