The President, Muhammadu Buhari has named Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa as the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. He has therefore requested the Senate to confirm Bawa’s nomination. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statemen...
Rapper Jay-Z and tech mogul Jack Dorsey are launching a roughly $24 million fund to help develop bitcoin. The Brooklyn-born artist and the Twitter CEO are putting 500 bitcoin into an endowment called “₿trust,” Dorsey announced Friday. The fund’s mission is to make bitcoin “the internet’s currency” and i...
The UK has recorded another 230 coronavirus deaths – compared to the 333 fatalities confirmed on this day last week, according to government figures. Monday’s figure is also a drop from the 258 deaths announced on Sunday. The latest data also shows another 9,765 COVID-19 cases have been conf...
The NCDC says it is aware of confirmed Ebola cases in Guinea and is assessing the risk to Nigeria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said it would soon issue a public health advisory over the rising Ebola cases in the West African nation of Guinea. The NCDC disclosed this in a social media...
Labour unions in Oyo State-owned tertiary institutions have issued a seven-day ultimatum to the state government to sack the consultant appointed to authorize all spendings of the institutions. Gathering under the auspices of the Joint Action Committee of Trade Unions (JAC), the unions described the app...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has extended suspension of flights from Nigeria (Lagos and Abuja) from February 28 to March 10. The UAE aviation authorities made this known in the updated travel protocol posted on the website of the Emirates Airline, the flag carrier of the UAE, on Sunday afternoon. The...
