During the week the United States Federal Reserve announced an interest rate hike of 75 basis points (0.75%) in a bid to tame the ever-increasing inflation rate, in which the consumer price index in the United States, the most widely followed measure of inflation, climbed 8.6% year over year in…
Biodun Oyebanji, former secretary to the state government (SSG) and the Governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the just concluded Ekiti State Governorship election, has been declared the winner of the Ekiti governorship election. This was disclosed by Kayode Oyebode, the returning officer for the election, in…
A group of NGOs and media outlets who deployed several election observers have decried the alarming incidents of vote-buying recorded at various polling units at the ongoing election in Ekiti State. This was revealed in a statement issued by the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) in conjunction with…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has revealed that the renegotiation of the 2009 ASUU-Federal Government agreement which has been a major bone of contention in its dispute with the government is progressing smoothly and has reached an advanced stage. The lecturers union said that the University Transparency and…
The Department of state service (DSS) has arrested Jeremiah Oluwaferanmi, a Premium Times Centre for investigative journalism (PTCIJ) observer at the ongoing Ekiti gubernatorial election. According to a colleague of his who spoke with Nairametrics, he was arrested at Ward 1 Unit 1. Irepodun Ifelodun LGA. the polling unit of…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has insisted that the stoppage of their salaries by the Federal Government will not force them to call off the ongoing strike. The leadership of the union also commended the members for keeping faith with the union despite the hardship imposed on their…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, is reported to have picked Kabiru Masari as his running mate for the 2023 elections. This was made known by a chieftain of the party from Katsina state, Kabiru Faskari, during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday. Faskari explained that…
Doyin Okupe, a former media aide to former President, Goodluck Jonathan has announced that he has been selected as the running mate to the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi. This was made known by Okupe, who is also the Director-General of the Peter Obi Presidential campaign, while…
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has refuted a newspaper report which alleged that the commission paid the sum of N20 billion to a ghost contractor. This is also as the commission has denied claims in the report which was allegedly sponsored by a group, the Niger Delta United Congress,…
Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun of the Supreme Court has ruled that Muslim female students in Lagos State can now wear hijabs to school. Recall the state government had placed a ban on the use of hijab in secondary schools following a judgment of a high court. In a judgement issued on…
A lot of Nigerians are switching to other networks as a result of the federal government’s directive for telecommunication service providers to block the phone lines of those who have failed to link their numbers. Nigerians were directed to link their SIM cards to the database of the National Identity…
With the increased rate of fraud and dispute claims between customers and financial institutions across Nigeria, Uche Elendu, Co-founder and COO of Appzone has called for the adoption of blockchain technology to not only decentralise the process of moving money from one bank to the other, but to help increase…
