Bitcoin on Tuesday hit a record high above $62,000 as the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase prepares to launch shares on Wall Street. Bitcoin reached $62,377, a huge gain of 114 percent since the start of the year. More to follow…
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The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami, on Monday, said criminals across the country are “feeling the heat” of the ongoing linking of National Identification Numbers (NIN) with Subscriber Identification Modules (SIM). He made the comment while reacting to the retraction of a story published by an online news site. The story had purportedly linked the Minister to Boko Haram. “On the issue of NIN-SIM Verification to fight insecurity, there is no going back,” he said. “Our priority as GOVERNMENT based on the provision of our constitution 1999 (as amended) Section 14(2)b is SECURITY, not just economy. “For…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has expressed the urgent need for African National Congress (ANC), a South African ruling political party, and the PDP to work together to save and deepen democracy in Africa. Speaking when he received the South African High Commissioner to Nigeria, Thamsanqa Dennis Mseleku, at the party’s Wadata Plaza headquarter in Abuja last Wednesday, Secondus said his party has a lot to learn from ANC, which he described as a mass movement. He said Nigeria has a lot to learn from South Africa in the conduct of free, fair…
At least 12 communities in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State have reportedly been displaced during last Tuesday invasion by soldiers over criminal activities in the area. The Chairman of the LGA, Mr. Anthony Luke, disclosed this in a message sent to the displaced persons after the raid. He said the nefarious activities of hoodlums led to the displacement of the people from their homes as lives and property in the area were unsafe. Luke explained that heinous activities of criminals began in Essien Udim LGA on February 22, 2021, when the hoodlums attacked a police officers…
The traditional ruler of Ile-Oluji Kingdom in Ondo State, South West Nigeria, His Royal Majesty, Oba Julius Oluwole Adetimehin, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC government to exercise caution and extreme care in the handling of affairs in country. According to him, “if the right steps and right things are done, with fairness, equity and justice, Nigeria will continue to remain as one united and indivisible country where no man is oppressed and where peace and love reigns.” He stressed that “The unnecessary tension and acrimony, which has become pervasive in the country, is as a result…
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, John Oyegun, as the Chairman, University of Ibadan (UI) governing council. Oyegun, alongside others were appointed into the reconstituted governing councils of University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), University of Lagos (UNILAG), Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, and the Maritime University in Delta state. This was contained in a statement signed by Sonny Echono, Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education and made available to reporters on Thursday. Joining Oyegun as members of the UI governing council include Kazaure, Yaro, Maikafi, and Emeka Nwagbo. “For…
An Igbo group has heaped all the blame for the security crisis in Nigeria on President Muhammad Buhari, saying his policy of sectionalism, nepotism , aloofness and support for killer herdsmen bred the crisis. “Much more than any previous Nigerian leader, Buhari has demonstrated an unprecedented insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity, disregarded constitutional provisions for federal character, disregarded public opinion like never before, demonstrated monumental aloofness and enthroned nepotism, sectionalism and injustice like never before in the nation’s history”, Igbo Ekunie Initiative said in a scathing statement on Thursday night. The group with members in the diaspora urged Buhari to urgently…
The Kano State Consumer Protection Council (KSCPC) has sealed off a restaurant and suya (kebab) spot in the Kano metropolis to curtail the spread of Hepatitis B among their patrons. The Council’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mr Musbahu Yakasai, said this in a statement he signed and issued to newsmen on Thursday in Kano. While sealing off the two areas, the Acting-Managing Director of the council, Alhaji Baffa Dan-Agundi, said it was necessary after some of their employees tested positive to Hepatitis B. Dan-Agundi was represented by the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Kano Road Traffic Agency (KAROTA),…
Twenty-five academic staff of the University of Jos (UNIJOS) have been promoted to the rank of Professor in different fields. The promotions took effect from 1st October, 2019 and is outcome of the institution’s recent elevation exercise. They were approved by the University’s Appointments and Promotion Committee (Senior Staff) at its 136th regular meeting chaired by Vice-Chancellor Professor Seddi Sebastian Maimako. The academic staff promoted to the rank of Professor are Dr. D. B. Bawa from the Department of Agricultural Economics & Extension; Dr. Ishaya Y. Longdet, Department of Biochemistry; Dr. Tolulope M. Ogboru, Department of Commercial Law; Dr. Salome…
Those posing as agitators for Yoruba freedom, secession, and self-determination are warming up to cause violence and chaos in the South-West state, a group, Yoruba Appraisal Forum, has alleged. The group, YAF raised the alarm in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, alleging that the plot by these individuals and groups to cause violence and chaos in Yorubaland was aimed at instigating bloodshed to achieve their evil plans of secession of the South-West to hasten the disintegration of the Nigerian nation. It further accused the agitators of mobilizing youths in the region for more violent protests and bloody confrontation with…