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The Central Bank has fined four banks for flouting its directive on cryptocurrency transactions. The CBN had in February 2021 ordered all banks to close accounts of anyone who transacts in cryptocurrency. According to the CBN, dealing in cryptocurrency or facilitating payments for cryptocurrency exchanges is prohibited. In a report by Bloomberg on Wednesday, the […]

  Federal Government has approved extension of deadline for NIN-SIM data verification to July 26, 2021.   The government said the decision to extend the deadline was reached after a request by stakeholders on the needs to consolidate enrolment and NIN-SIM verification process because of the rapid increase in the number of enrolment systems across […]

President Buhari has approved the composition of the Federal Government’s Team to engage with Twitter over its recent suspension of operations in Nigeria. This was announced in Abuja by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who is to chair the team. The team also comprises the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister […]

Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo, says Nigeria’s Industrial Revolution Plan, NIRP< is being reviewed to reflect current economic realities and aspirations of the Federal Government. Adebayo made this known  today at the inauguration of chemical solutions manufacturing plant in Lagos. He listed the economic realities to include the African Continental Free […]

Poultry Farmers Association of Nigeria, Ogun State Chapter, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene and save over three trillion naira  Nigeria poultry industry from imminent collapse. There is contained in a letter from the association addressed to the President and copies given to journalists yesterday in Abeokuta. According to the Association, twenty million […]

Federal Government says it hoped to get forty-two million doses of  COVID-19 vaccines to battle coronavirus in the country. Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, who stated this at  the press conference of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja, said one hundred thousand doses of the vaccines would […]

Commencement of the seven hundred and seventy-four thousand Special Works Programme today met another set-back at the House of Representatives. This is as the House asked the Federal government to halt the programme’s take-off, scheduled for January 2021. The House also asked the Ministry of Finance not to release the funds meant for the scheme […]

Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has accused Federal Government of manipulation, as both parties fail to reach a compromise over the lingering strike by the lecturers. ASUU National President, Abiodun Ogunyemi, who made the accusation today during a televised interview, blamed the government for the inability of union members to return to class since […]

Federal Government is looking to earn nine hundred and thirty-nine billion naira from the renewal of oil blocks by operators in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry next year. This is in accordance with the breakdown of the approved 2020 budget presented by the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed. The budget shows […]

National Broadcasting Commission is seeking intensified efforts by the Federal Government towards promoting news literacy and strong professional journalism in Nigeria. NBC Director-General, Ishaq Modibbo-Kawu, who made the call at the 2019 Annual World Human Rights Day in Lagos, identified fake news and sophisticated disinformation campaigns as challenges in a democratic system. Modibbo-Kawu, represented by […]


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