Restructuring: Buhari, Atiku, Saraki, Soyinka, Nwodo Expected at “Handshake Across Nigeria” Summit President Muhammadu Buhari, former Vice President Abubakar Atiku, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo are among dignitaries billed to participate at [...]
Unnecessarily complex registration procedures may soon make it difficult for Nigerians to access collateral-free loans from online money lenders. Techpoint.Africa [...]
Judging by the current state of the Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL), fantasy football may be just what it needs to improve. Techpoint.Africa [...]
The strike at the Murtala Muhammed Airport 2 (MMA2), Lagos, enters its second day and the bite has forced airline operators to make alternative arrangements to fly passengers. Aviation unions continued their picketing of the terminal on Thursday. The airlines [...]
October 11, 2018
Employment
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has stated that the lower chamber would resist any further attempt to frustrate the enactment of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill. According to him, failure to do so would be [...]
A claim by a Nigerian minister that Kachikwu graduated from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, with a first class honours is false, a fact-check by DUBAWA. During the 17th anniversary celebrations of the Commonwealth Of Zion Assembly (COZA) held at the [...]
Eleven persons in Abuja yesterday suffered varying degrees of burns from a gas explosion that occurred at Rosy Restaurant Area 11. The victims who were immediately taken to Asokoro general hospital suffered some 40 to 50 degrees of burns. A [...]
October 11, 2018
Incidents
Four hundred and sixty billion naira has been released for the implementation of the 2018 budget, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma, has disclosed. A statement by Mr. Paul Ella Abechi, the Special Adviser on Media [...]
At least five airlines are now counting their losses over workers’ unions’ shutdown of the Murtala Muhammed Airport II (MMA2) Terminal in Lagos. The unions, under the aegis of the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN), the [...]
October 11, 2018
Transportation
Nigeria’s fresh 25 oil cargoes await buyers: Nigeria’s economy faces significant risks in the days ahead, as the country is currently having difficulties getting buyers for its crude oil in the international market. Reuters yesterday confirmed that 25 cargoes in [...]
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole yesterday accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of bias. This came after the electoral body yesterday barred the party in Zamfara State from fielding candidates in next year’s [...]