•Godwin Emefiele A deputy director in charge of Branch Operations in the Central Bank of Nigeria, Onyeka Ogbu, today, told a Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Maitama that he was aware of a $6.2 million payment request for international election observers. The former governor of the bank, Godwin Emefiele, is standing trial on [&h...
•Mike Ejiofor A former Director of the Department of State Services, DSS, Mr Mike Ejiofor, in this interview, gives reasons for the escalation of kidnapping in the country, stating interim and long-term measures the government can embrace. Ejiofor, who is also a kidnap victim, reveals why payment of ransom is the only available option to [&hel...
The National Hajj Commission has extended the deadline for payment of 2024 hajj. In a statement today, its Assistant Director on Public Affairs, Fatima Sanda Usara said the new deadline is now January 31, 2024 as against December 31, 2023. “The extension was in response to the heartfelt concerns raised by religious clerics, State Pilgrims’ [&h...
The World Bank has said the Tinubu-led federal government may still be paying for petrol subsidy as fuel prices in Nigeria are currently not cost-reflective. It said Nigerians should pay about N750 per litre as against the current price of N650 in some places. Petrol is already selling at around N690 in Kano and Sokoto, […]
The Organised Labour and the federal government are on a collision course over the government’s failure to sustain the payment of N35,000 wage award to workers. Workers in the Federal Civil Service, in separate interviews with our correspondent yesterday, noted that the federal government only paid N35,000 wage award for September, reports The...
The regime of crazy fares Nigerians have been subjected to by the foreign carriers operating in the country may soon be reviewed downwards as the federal government, through the Central Bank of Nigeria, has commenced part payment of over $800 million trapped funds of the airlines. This came just as the information reaching this paper […...
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