The Minister of State for Labour, Employment and Productivity, Festus Keyamo (SAN), on Saturday, announced that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has approved the payment of stipends to the 774,000 participants of the ongoing Special Public Works Programme across the country. Keyamo announced this in a message he...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said there was no time the bank banned the activities of Cryptocurrencies in the country. The Governor of the bank, Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this in Abuja at the 30th seminar for Finance Correspondents and Business Editors organised by the bank. Emefiele, who was represented...

OPPO is unveiled Reno5 Series, packed with massive improvements over the previously released Reno3 Series. The global smartphone giant doesn’t look like it is slowing down anytime soon, as it makes yet another statement by these Flagship killers into the Nigerian market at very reasonable prices. The Reno5 is packed...

Aisha Buhari, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, has returned to Nigeria after several months of absence, a source at the presidential villa has said. The first lady has not been seen at public events since October 2020. She is said to have departed Nigeria after Hanan, one of her daughters,...

Music producer, rapper, and fashion mogul Kanye West is the richest African American in the United States. Bloomberg reports that West is officially worth $6.6 billion, making him the richest Black man in America’s history. Around the same time last year, West became a certified billionaire with the help of his successful...

Shoprite Group has announced this in its unaudited results for the 26 weeks to 27 December 2020 in which sale of merchandise increased by 4.7% to R83.4 billion while its trading profit increased by 18.3% to R4.7 billion. The Group confirms that the terms of sale have been concluded for...

Nigeria’s unemployment rate hit a new record high at 33.3 per cent in fourth quarter (Q4) 2020 from 27.1 recorded in second quarter (Q2) 2020. According to Q4 unemployment report released by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday, a total of 23.18 million persons in Nigeria either did...

My father told me when I was around, the day He took me to the river sat me down to pray Right there in the water to the sound of pain From the mud he fashioned me a crown of clay It’s why no one can ever take this sound...