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Two million people will start receiving about N20bn from June this year as basic cash transfers and conditional cash transfers under the National Cash Transfer Programme, the Federal Government has said. It was gathered that the Federal Government would pay the two million people N5,000 each under the basic cash …

upon activation of their lines as well as 800% bonus every time they recharge their lines with airtime worth N100 and above. The new offer, which is christened Ovajara, is the default tariff plan for customers who are acquiring an Airtel SIM for the first time. After registering and activating …

The peculiarities of the business operating environment in Nigeria are common knowledge but concerns are mounting that a bad situation is suddenly turning worse, owing to extraneous factors such as the development in Eastern Europe, which has mounted pressure on the prices of fuel including Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), known …

Civil servants in Anambra Monday defied State Government’s directive to come to work every Monday against the Independent People of Biafra’s (IPOB) sit-at-home order. Newsextra24 correspondent, who monitored the situation in Awka, reports that most government offices visited were under lock and key. Newsextra24 reports that the state government had, …

Following what it described as the failure of the Nigerian government to react to its letter earlier issued threatening to down tools, the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Allied and Educational Institutions (NASU) have declared a two-week …

Multi-billion dollar American company, Microsoft,will today open its first African Development Center in Nigeria where geniuses will provide software engineering solutions to the world and Africa, in a $100m investment, alongside Kenya.The hub in Lagos will be the first in Africa.

Academic Technologists Commence Two-week Warning Strike Members of the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) have started a two-week warning strike from today (Monday). Ibeji Nwokoma, NAAT President, in a statement, alleged that the warning strike was as a result of the failure of the Federal Government to implement a …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has again blamed the Federal Government for the ongoing strike in public universities. The union’s National President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, stated in an interview with our correspondent that the government “went to sleep” for eight months after it completed negotiations with the union in …

BBC Hausa which is based in London, is celebrating it’s 60 years of broadcasting in Hausa language. The Hausa service of BBC started broadcasting 2 years after Nigeria gained her independence. 60 years later, the Hausa service of BBC has grown to become a major news outlet of the BBC. …

A leading player in Nigeria’s power sector, Dr. Chukwueloka Umeh, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Century Power Generation Limited, has advocated that Discos have to be auctioned again for the public to start getting value from the sector. According to Umeh, aside from solving the liquidity problem that ails …