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NB: Reduce the lead flow on the cover and accomodate this No plans on fuel subsidy removal - FG

The federal government has stated that there was no plan yet for the removal of fuel subsidy.

The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, said this on Sunday at a briefing by the Nigerian delegation at the just ended joint Spring Meeting of the IMF/World Bank in Washington DC.

The minist [...]

EBENEZER ONYEAGWU IS NEW GMD/CEO OF ZENITH BANK ...Effective June 1, 2019

Zenith Bank Plc. has announced the appointment of Mr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu as the Group Managing Director/CEO of the bank effective June 1, 2019, subject to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) approval.

The appointment is consistent with the bank’s tradition and succession strategy of grooming [...]

200 arrested over alleged fraudulent sim card activation

The Nigerian Communication Commission, NCC, in an effort to flush out the rising cases of kidnapping and other related crimes, has arrested over 200 agents across the country over fraudulent registration of sim cards. 

The director, Compliance, Monitoring and Enforcement, NCC, Mr. Efosa Id [...]

Accept posting in good faith, NYSC DG tells corps members

The Director General of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Major Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, has urged the 2019 batch 'A' corps members currently at the orientation camp to accept postings to places of primary assignment in good fate. 

Kazaure made the appeal during an assessment visit [...]

Project set to rebrand Nigeria’s image

In a bid to project Nigeria’s image positively to the world, ‘My Nigeria’ has launched a website to rebrand the country’s image to the world through its e-passport project, MNEPP.

At the project unveiling in Abuja, the National President and convener of ‘My Nigeria [...]

Kajuru killings: Civil society group demands justice

The Joint Action Civil Society Crisis Centre has decried the unabated violence in Southern Kaduna, particularly in Kajuru local government area of the state, just as the group calls for a balance in the scale of justice to forestall further break down of law and order. 

At a press briefing [...]

N104m alleged fraud: Masari gets N30m bail

Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court, Abuja, has granted bail to Bature Umar Masari, a former Director General, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN, who is facing a N104.7 million fraud charge.

Masari was first arraigned on April 9, 2019 on a 17-count [...]

Bello charges residents on road safety culture

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Muhammad Bello, has called on road users in the FCT to support and collaborate with the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, in order to internalize safe road culture. 

The minister, who made the call during the commissioning of 73 operatio [...]