Airtel Africa incurred $89 million in loss after tax for the year ended 31 March 2024 in contrast to an after-tax profit of $750 million twelve months earlier after a long-standing currency crisis in its largest market, Nigeria, left the…
Chad’s junta chief Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno won this week’s presidential election in the first round, according to provisional official results released Thursday, extending his family’s decades-long grip on power. Monday’s vote aimed to end three years of military rule…
Some 110,000 people have left Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip since the Israeli army started advancing on the city. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said on Friday. “@UNRWA…
Israel launched fresh strikes in the Gaza Strip Friday after negotiators pursuing a long-stalled truce agreement left talks in Cairo without having secured a deal. AFP journalists in the Gaza Strip early Friday witnessed artillery strikes on Rafah on the…
The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) on Thursday expressed concerns about the timing of the recently introduced 0.5 per cent cybersecurity levy on electronic transactions by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). On Monday, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)…
The decision by Ibrahim Shema, a former governor of Katsina State, to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) took long in arriving. Mr Shema became critical of the PDP, especially in his home…
• Falana faults ‘erroneous’ interpretation, says individuals not required to pay• Senate committee chair backs govt, highlights benefits to economy, citizens• Northern Elders Forum denounces proposal, demands review• IMF tasks FG on scaling up cash transfers to poor Nigerians The House…
When the substantial funds that the Nigerian government have expended since it submissively handed over our national treasures to private individual, alongside the significant loans provided by Nigerian banks to the electricity sector thus far, is juxtaposed against the revenue…
The Advisory Board of Nigeria Prize for Science has received 153 entries for 2024, attaining a 53 per cent increase over last year and breaking a 20-year record. The number of entries was revealed, yesterday, at a ceremony to hand…
President Bola Tinubu has appointed the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, as the co-chairman of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB). Presidential spokesperson Ajuri Ngelale disclosed this in a statement…