The Federal Government has ordered financial technology companies (FinTechs) to stop providing payment and transaction services to digital money lenders. The order affects loan sharks being investigated by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC). Babatunde Irukera, Executive Vice…
A total shut down of all public cemeteries in Abuja may be carried out by Environmental workers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). According to Daily Trust, earlier, the workers shut down Gudu cemetery in the nation’s capital, but bowed…
GODWIN Emefiele, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria has disclosed that from next week, Nigerians would be able to transact on eNaira wallet through the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data code on mobile phones. The eNaira is a central bank digital…
THERE are indications that the failure of Emirates Airlines to repatriate its trapped ticket sales fund in Nigeria back to its home country in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) may have led to the carrier’s decision to stop all flights…
THE consumer price index (CPI) grew to 19.64 percent in July 2022, up from 18.60 percent in the previous month. The CPI measures the rate of change in prices of goods and services. According to the National Bureau of Statistics…
THE Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) on Friday launched ‘Crude Theft Monitoring Applications’ to curb oil theft and pipeline vandalism. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the launch held in Abuja on the sideline of the…
THE Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has told Nigerians to disregard the threat by some marketers in the South-East zone of shutting down depots in Calabar, Port Harcourt and Enugu. Edet Umana, IPMAN Chairman, Cross River, said this in…
By ABDULLAHI RABIU, Kano THE Managing Director Kano State Road Transport Agency (KAROTA)Dr Baffa Babba Da’agundi has said that the state government would soon be free of Armed Robbery, Phone snatching and other related vices following the restriction order placed…
ABDULLAHI RABIU, Kano. KANO state Consumer protection Council said it has so far confiscated assorted sub standard items worth over Hundred million Naira within the year under review. He said the only challenge facing the Council is the sluggish way…
THE Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday said that the Vehicle Assembly Plant in Ogba area of the state will become operational by end of the year. He said this during an inspection of the facility, 17…
