Nigeria-born activist Richard Taylor, who lost his son Damilola to murder in UK at only 10 years, is dead. He died yesterday following a protracted illness, his family announced. He was aged 75. Following the circumstances of Damilola’s death in November 2000, the father set up the Damilola Taylor Trust to campaign against knife crime [&hellip...
Nigerian creators can now monetise their content starting from June 2024, according to Meta. Meta, the parent company of social media platforms Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook, said this yesterday. Meta’s President of Global Affairs Sir Nick Clegg spoke about this when he led a delegation of Meta Platforms Incorporated to visit President Bol...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered Binance Holdings Limited to provide the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission with comprehensive information on all persons from Nigeria trading on its platform. The court handed down the order in an ex-parte motion filed by the EFCC demanding information about Nigerians trading on Binance, reports ...
•Chief Emeka Anyaoku Elder Statesman and former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, has said the current 1999 constitution lacks legitimacy expected in a pluralistic country like Nigeria. He said the constitution is not suitable to address the myriad of challenges confronting Nigeria and called for the adoption of the r...
Six Nigerian university lecturers, some refugees and asylum seekers, detained in Cameroon, after their alleged illegal deportation from Nigeria, have called on the National Assembly to intervene to secure their immediate and unconditional release. They had written to the House of Representatives, appealing for the intervention of the House to ...
•IWD In celebration of the International Women’s Day, NAOMI CHIMA takes a look at female creatives who have broken different records in their careers, reports Saturday Tribune (Additional reports by The Frontier) Agbani Darego A model, Asenite ‘Agbani’ Darego, made history as the first African woman to win the prestigious beauty pageant—Miss W...
The United Nations Children Fund has condemned the abduction of students by bandits in Kaduna State. It said the alarming frequency of such incidents across the country signalled a crisis that requires immediate and determined action from all, reports The PUNCH. UNICEF said it is coordinating with local officials and providing assistance to th...
States yesterday kicked against Organised Labour’s minimum wage demands for Nigerian workers, saying they were not realistic. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is proposing N709,000 while the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) is recommending N447,000 as the new minimum wage for workers. But states are proposing between N45,000 and N70,000,...
•Godswill Akpabio and Nigerian women The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has congratulated women on the occasion of the 2024 International Day of Women, saying they deserve all the respect. Akpabio, in a statement to celebrate the women signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Hon. Eseme Eyiboh today, singled ou...
•Muhammad Ali Pate The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Ali Pate, says other nations recruit health workers who left Nigeria for greener pastures overseas because of the level of training the health workers received back in Nigeria. Pate stated this today during a briefing organised by the Ministry of Information an...
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