Buratai Condoles Nigerian Army, Families of Plane Crash Victims

Retired Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, immediate past Chief of Army Staff and Ambassador Designate, has expressed shock and sadness on the death of Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru, the Chief of Army Staff and some senior Military officers in a plane crash. The full statement he personally signed and made available to NAOSRE reads below: ‘’I was deeply shocked and saddened …

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No one can buy my support for anything – Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that no one can buy his conscience and support for anything. Obasanjo said this on Friday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, at the inauguration of the Prof Abayomi Oluwatosin Jiboku Building and Entrepreneurship Centre at the Lariken International College. The ex-president said the displacement of values of honesty and hard work by the …

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Bitcoin to bounce back soon – Report

Stack Funds, an issuer of crypto access products that include trackers, indexes and structure vehicles for institutions, has predicted that bitcoin will bounce back to its former heights in the nearest future. In January, Bitcoin had a 73.5 per cent share of the crypto market. This week, it has only a 40.5 per cent share of the market. This figure …

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No Plan To Increase Petrol Price Yet, Nigerian Government Says

The Federal Government has said it will not increase the price of petrol in June despite the recommendation by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum that the cost of the commodity should be increased. On Wednesday, a committee set up by the Nigeria Governor’s Forum recommended a petrol price of between N408.5/litre and N380/litre, and also called for immediate removal of petrol …

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Naira falls to 485/$, BDCs warn speculators of losses

The Nigerian currency weakened against the United States dollar on Friday at both the parallel market and the investors’ and exporters’ window. The naira fell to 485 against the greenback at the black market from 484 on Thursday. It weakened by 0.17 per cent to 412/$1 at the I&E window, according to FMDQ Group. Last weekend, the Central Bank of …

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FG, states, LGAs shared N616.87bn in April – FAAC

The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee on Friday said it shared a total of N616.87bn as April 2021 revenue to the Federal, States and Local Governments as well as other relevant agencies in Nigeria. The Office of Accountant General of the Federation disclosed that the shared revenue was contained in a communiqué issued by FAAC after its monthly meeting for April …

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Nigerian Communications Commission Denies Asking Subscribers To Submit Phone IDs From July

The Nigerian Communications Commission has denied reports that mobile subscribers will be required to submit the international mobile equipment identity (IMEI) of their phones to it from July, 2021. In a statement on Friday, the Director of public affairs of the NCC, Ikechukwu Adinde, said the commission did not at any time issue a statement regarding the registration of IMEI …

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We will capture subscribers’ phone IDs automatically — NCC

The Nigerian Communications Commission has said that subscribers do not have to submit their International Mobile Equipment Identity numbers to the agency as the data will be captured automatically. Respomding to The PUNCH story on Friday that the regulatory agency would require subscribers phone IMEIs in three months, the commission said it would rather automatically capture the phone identifying numbers …

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Filmmaker Abiodun Aleja is dead

Actor and film director Abiodun Aleja has died, Qed.ng has leant. The October 1actor died on Friday according to his wife who broke the news to chairman of the Lagos chapter of the National Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners (NANTAP) Makinde Adeniran. His death comes weeks after he was admitted to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) following a …

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