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The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has announced May 24 as the official date for the opening of the portal for student loan applications. The Managing Director of NELFUND, Mr Akintunde Sawyerr, disclosed this on Thursday in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja by the Fund’s Media and Public Relations Lead, Nasir Ayitogo. Sawyerr said the opening of …

There was outrage in the polity recently following a circular issued by Nigeria’s apex bank, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), ordering banks in the country to start charging a cybersecurity levy on electronic transactions. The circular disclosed that the implementation of the levy would start within two weeks from the issuing date, meaning the law was to take effect …

The Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy -Ohanenye, has withdrawn a suit earlier filed against the speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly, Abdulmalik Sarkindaji over his plans to marry off 100 orphans from his constituency. The minister, speaking with reporters on Friday,  noted that the ministry in collaboration with the speaker of the Niger state assembly, and traditional …

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Wednesday agreed to hold two campaign debates — the first on June 27 hosted by CNN and the second on Sept. 10 hosted by ABC — setting the stage for their first presidential face-off to play out in just over a month. The quick agreement on the timetable followed the Democrat’s announcement that he would …

By Eben Enasco  Edo State House of Assembly (EDHA) has inaugurated its Standing Committees, with Hon. Charity Iguodala Aiguobarueghian, a member representing Ovia North East Constituency 1 and Majority Leader, appointed as Chairman of the Rules, Business, and Government House Committee.  The announcement was made by Speaker Rt. Hon. Blessing Sheriff Agbebaku during the inauguration ceremony on Monday. The appointment …

Governor Godwin Obaseki Edo State has said the N70, 000 new minimum wage for civil and public servants in the State will be funded by revenue inflow into the State on the back of the government’s business-friendly policies as well as savings from government expenditure as a result of nuanced reforms by his government over the past seven and a …

• Experts expect CBN to raise interest rate next week• High-interest rate hurting economy, warns CPPE• Economists say fiscal authorities not doing enough The cost-of-living crisis confronting the majority of Nigerians may have further worsened as inflation hits another new height in close to three decades. The headline inflation, in March, edged up to 33.69 per cent just as food inflation remained …

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military finished installing a floating pier for the Gaza Strip on Thursday, with officials poised to begin ferrying badly needed humanitarian aid into the enclave besieged over seven months of intense fighting in the Israel-Hamas war. The final, overnight construction sets up a complicated delivery process more than two months after U.S. President Joe Biden ordered …

BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia — Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was in serious but stable condition Thursday, a hospital official said, after the populist leader was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt that shook the small country and reverberated across the continent weeks before European elections. A suspect was in custody, and Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok said Wednesday that an initial …

•Accuse them of misappropriating LG funds•Asks Tinubu to immediately stop allocation of funds to caretaker c’ttees The Senate yesterday accused state governors of misappropriating funds allocated to local government councils in Nigeria, saying that arm of government was dead in the country. It also said the dream of achieving the objectives of the local government system has encountered harsh realities …