Of the 17 local government areas in Yobe State, only four have banks operating in their council areas.
As a result, most residents who are mainly either farmers or pastoralists hold cash instead of engaging in bank transactions.
Disturbed with the...
Nigerian singer, Damini Ogulu, widely known as Burna Boy, has bagged another nomination for the 2022 Grammy Awards in two categories.
Burna Boy was nominated for Best Global Music Album and Best Global Music Performance.
The Grammy Awards Recording Academy released...
The Naira on Tuesday exchanged at N446.67 to the dollar at the Investors and Exporters window, a depreciation of 0.15 per cent, compared with N446 to the dollar it exchanged on Monday.
The open indicative rate closed at N443.90 to...
Kogi State has won the World Bank’s Awards of Excellence in three categories – Fiscal Transparency and Accountability, Debt Sustainability and Domestic Revenue Mobilisation.
The awards were conferred on Kogi State at the Federal Government of Nigeria/World Bank States Fiscal...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, says his agenda for restructuring is to ensure that the government becomes more efficient.
Atiku said he would encourage the National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly to come...
Road crashes have claimed 412 people in reported cases of road crashes in Lagos State from January to October.
Lagos Corps Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr. Olusegun Ogungbemide, gave the figure on Tuesday.
Ogungbemide said that the...
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has reacted to the governor of Anambra State, Charles Soludo’s comments on him, saying the governor should develop the state more as a professor.
It would be recalled that Soludo...
The presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has declared that the 2023 presidential election is a fight to define the souls of the country and to determine the fate of Nigerians.
Tinubu equally took a...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday in Lagos thrilled participants at UN Tourism Confab to the rendition and dancing of Nigerian ace singer, Kizz Daniel’s hit song, “Buga”.
Osinbajo also rendered Nigerian Afro beat star, Burna Boy’s song, Last Last...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says Nigeria’s headline inflation rate increased to 21.09 per cent on a year-on-year basis in October 2022.
Nigeria’s headline inflation rate stood at 20.77 per cent on a year-on-year basis in September 2022.
The NBS...
