The minister of state for labour and employment, Festus Keyamo, announced on live television on Monday, that microblogging platform Twitter has agreed to all of the federal government’s conditions, for
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Africa’s leading payments technology company, Flutterwave has announced the launch of its new e-commerce service, Flutterwave Market – an extension of its Flutterwave Store service – that will bring together
Prosecutors urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction, complaining in a petition released Monday the verdict was thrown out over a questionable agreement that the
Following its launch on October 25, 2021, the eNaira applications have registered almost 600,000 downloads. This was revealed by the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele at
Some of the most illustrious names in soccer’s long history only managed to win the Ballon d’Or, the sport’s most prestigious individual prize, once. George Best, Zinedine Zidane and Eúsebio
Travel restrictions imposed on southern African countries and the African continent by world leaders, in a bid to curb the spread of the new Covid 19 variant Omicron, which has
The speed with which the U.S., UK and the EU have imposed travel bans on flights arriving from southern Africa over the Omricon COVID-19 variant has led to condemnation by
Islamic Cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has faulted the Court’s decision to declare proscribed bandit groups as terrorists. Gumi says this will only lead to more military action which has neither
In 1991, two American conservationists, Liza Gadsby and Peter Jenkins, founded the Drill Rehabilitation and Breeding Centre in Cross River State. For the past thirty years, the project has
Following the outbreak of a new strain of COVID-19 in South Africa and the travel restrictions imposed on Southern African countries by several countries, concerns have been raised over the
They are Africa’s premier musical dynasty. A multi-talented family who’ve invented their own genre of music, creating a unique sound known as Afrobeat. Today, just like Femi Kuti did with
Africa’s most anticipated fashion show, Arise Fashion Week, is set to go live at the Dubai Expo on the 3rd of December 2021. The one night only event will take
In North Korea, a man has reportedly been sentenced to death for smuggling copies of Netflix’s blockbuster series Squid Game into the country. The Nigerian Army has denied the alleged
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Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, on Thursday launched the apex bank’s N500 million Tertiary Institutions Entrepreneurship Scheme (TIES). Speaking at the launch of the
The BUA Group has signed yet another agreement with Wartsila OY of Finland for the construction of a 70 megawatts (MW) dual-fuel power plant for its cement Obu Line 3
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Timipre Sylva, Wednesday paid his first visit to the site of the Nembe oil spill in Bayelsa State, more than three weeks after
The Consulate-General of Nigeria in New York on Wednesday took possession of three Benin and Ife artefacts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The artefacts are two 16th-century Benin brass
Sweden’s first ever female prime minister has resigned just hours after she was appointed. Magdalena Andersson, was announced as leader on Wednesday but resigned after her coalition partner quit the
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