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The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) today said that bank customers are to begin paying N6.98 kobo per Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) transactions commencing today. The price replaced the former per session billing structure for USSD transactions. They disclosed this in a joint statement on pricing of USSD services, signed by Osita Nwanisobi, AG, …

…urge frontline workers, others to prepare to be vaccinated  Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said that he is hale and hearty and proceeding with his official engagements after taking the first dose of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine. The governor along with the Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu, took the vaccine on Monday, March 15. Others who …

A Magistrate Court in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital has remanded the alleged notorious Fulani leader, Iskilu Wakili in a correctional facility for alleged murder, conspiracy, kidnapping and armed robbery. The accused was arraigned on a six count charge today with other suspects. The suspects are Samaila, Aliyu Many and Abu, a 45 year old. Details later VANGUARD

*How to turn artisanal refiners into strategic partners in the oil-producing areas, by VP  The integration of artisanal and modular refinery operators into mainstream oil and gas sector promotes the inclusion of more local content in the industry and advance the use of home-grown technology in the refining of petroleum products, Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said.Prof. Osinbajo (SAN), …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki on Tuesday joined his Delta State counterpart, Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa to commission the Otu-Jeremi-Okwagbe Road and the Effurun-Otor Bridge/Access Road constructed by the Governor Okowa-led administration. Commissioning both projects at Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, Obaseki hailed his delta colleague for his infrastructural development in the state. Obaseki noted, “I am …

Nigeria’s recently inaugurated new Governing Council and Board of Trustees for the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) has been urged to establish the Center of Excellence for the Ogoni clean up process.Recall that the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria had surmised from majority of Ogonis and reports of its team of monitors around the project areas that HYPREP …

Human rights activist and fiery lawyer, Chief Femi Falana(SAN), has mocked the Federal Government for importing fuel, even from non-producing countries, instead of fixing its four refineries. He also berated the Federal Government for not leaving fuel prices to market forces, adding that there is always an annual budget for repairing the refineries, yet they remained comatose. Falana made these …

Not less than eight foreign universities in the Republic of Benin, Niger, and Cameroon have been banned by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) from taking part in the 2021 Batch A orientation course. According to a report by Daily Nigerian, most of these schools, otherwise called Cotonou universities, award degrees a few months after matriculation. Although the NYSC leadership did not state …

You would mistake it for a political rally, but no, it was the reception of the new leader of Tijjaniyya, the former Emir of Kano and former Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi in Sokoto. The Tijjaniyya is an Islamic sect with apparently huge following in the north and with Sanusi II as its new leader, the  group …

Barely one week after Edo state deputy governor, Comrade Philip Shaibu said he fell out with his political father and former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and immediate past governor of the state Comrade Adams Oshiomhole because he was attempting to reintroduce godfatherism which they both fought against, the burial of former Secretary to State Government (SSG), …