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Digital Transformation: Top Three Priorities for Banks – Report The African Banking Digital Transformation Report, a collaboration between pan-African publication African Banker and Backbase, creators of The Engagement Banking Platform, is a cornerstone in Africa’s financial news landscape, offering in-depth insight into the digital revolution being undertaken by the banking sector across the continent. A […]

Bitcoin Price Depreciation Drags Crypto Market Cap to $2.534T Market data from cryptocurrency exchanges shows that the price depreciation of Bitcoin on the final day of May reduced the value of the entire cryptocurrency market to $2.53 trillion, a decrease of 0.11% from the previous day. Bitcoin dropped below $68, 000 due to retail selloffs, […]

GITEX: Nigeria to Host Largest Tech Expo in 2025 The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) says Nigeria will host the Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (GITEX) in 2025. Mrs Hadiza Umar, Head,Corporate  Affairs and External Relations of NITDA, made the announcement in a statement in Abuja on friday. Umar said that the Director-General of NITDA, […]

Minimum Wage: Labour Declares Nationwide Strike Begins June 3 The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have declared a nationwide strike beginning from Monday, June 3rd, 2024 over the tripartite committee’s inability to agree on a new minimum wage and hike in electricity tariff. The President of the TUC Festus Osifo, announced […]

Naira Falls to N1,486 as FX Crisis Deepens Nigeria’s foreign exchange crisis has gotten so bad that even the monetary authority’s currency injections have not been able to reverse the value of the naira. It was a fight for survival in the foreign exchange market where sustained demand for imports forced the Nigerian naira to […]

NAGIS Collects N536m Revenue in 4 Months, Says DG The Director-General, Nasarawa State Geographical Information Services (NAGIS), Mr Sonny Agassi, said the agency generated N536 million as revenue between January and April 2024. Agassi made this known when he led other management staff of the agency to appear before the State House of Assembly Committee […]

The Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA) has released the final list of candidates qualified to contest in the 2024 Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) General Elections. The list includes candidates vying for various national officer positions as well as representatives to the General Council of the Bar. The list of candidates include: – […]

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Muhammad Ali, the American boxing phenomenon whom the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) voted the Sports Personality of the 20th Century in 1999, often promoted pugilistic enterprise in verse. When then ruler of the country formerly known as Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa […]

The Federal Government has explained why it rejected labour union new proposal of N494,000 minimum wage. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said the demand which cumulatively amounts to the sum of N9.5 trillion bill is unsustainable. Besides, the Minister said the huge demand is capable of destabilising the economy and jeopardising the […]

President Bola Tinubu has warned those attacking and killing security operatives, saying the Federal Government and its forces have the capacity to crush violent non-state actors. President Tinubu, who was responding to the killing of five soldiers at a check point in Aba, Abia State on Wednesday, directed security agencies not to only go after […]

First Bank, one of Nigeria’s largest banks with a market capitalization of ₦829 billion, has initiated legal proceedings to recover a substantial sum of money allegedly diverted by an employee at its head office team in Iganmu, Lagos, according to techcabal repot. The employee, identified as Tijani Muiz Adeyinka, is currently on the run, and […]

Nigerian activist Aisha Yesufu has stirred up a heated debate after a video of her sitting during the recitation of the new national anthem at an event went viral on social media. The human rights advocate has now addressed the controversial video, stating that she only recognizes ‘Arise, O Compatriots’ as the sole national anthem […]