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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in a circular dated May 6, 2024, to all commercial, merchant, non-interest and payment service banks as well as mobile money operators and payment service providers, disclosed that deposit money banks in the country will now start charging 0.5% cybersecurity levy on transactions. Tribune Online reports that the apex banks directed commercial banks, mobile money operators and payment …

NEW YORK— The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money trial fined him $1,000 on Monday and, in his sternest warning yet, told the former president that future gag order violations could send him to jail. The reprimand opened a revelatory day of testimony, as jurors for the first time heard the details of the financial transactions at the center of the case …

SaharaReporters had reported how the Nigeria Police Force in conjunction with the Lagos State Task Force packed hundreds of residents and young people from the streets of the state on Friday and dumped them in Osun State.  The Lagos State government after a long silence has confirmed the relocation of 371 residents whom it described as “miscreants, beggars and destitute …

The speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Blessing Agbebaku, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Monday, May 6, unilaterally suspended three lawmakers. The suspension was reportedly due to an alleged juju scare in the Assembly complex, as well as an alleged plot to impeach Agbebaku and other principal officers. The suspended lawmakers are Donald Okogbe (PDP, Akoko-Edo II), Bright …

High Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, has explained that the Igbos will suffer more than other tribes in Nigeria if the country fails, calling on Nigerians from the South-East, both home and in the Diaspora, to support President Bola Tinubu’s administration to succeed. Iwuanyanwu stated this when he received the leadership and members of the Igbo …

The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has urged the Presidency and the National Assembly to work together to swiftly address the lingering fuel scarcity crisis and the recent rooftop electricity tariff in the country. A statement by the National Coordinator, CNG, Comrade Jamilu Aliyu Charanchi, noted that the Coalition was deeply concerned about the persistent and debilitating fuel scarcity that …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.— Donald Trump’s former campaign manager looked squarely into the camera and promised his viewers they were about to witness a bold new era in politics. “You’re going to see some of the most amazing new technology in artificial intelligence that’s going to replace polling in the future across the country,” said Brad Parscale in a dimly lit …

The wave of abduction of journalists that continues to grow under a so-called democratic government has no doubt become a point of concern for media practitioners who now have to worry about their safety as they discharge their duties. The concerns are not only for reporters, editors and every media practitioner but also for their families and friends who fear …

Construction of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway has begun amid a myriad of fiscal and due process concerns. But indifference is the response of President Bola Tinubu’s administration to the challenges. The 700-kilometre stretch of road infrastructure, which will span eight years to complete, will gulp a staggering N15 trillion. This figure is tentative, given the country’s inflationary spiral. The project might …

JERUSALEM— The Israeli army ordered some 100,000 Palestinians on Monday to begin evacuating from the southern city of Rafah, signaling that a long-promised ground invasion there could be imminent and further complicating efforts to broker a cease-fire in Gaza. The looming operation in the city — where more than 1 million Palestinians are sheltering and a high number of deaths is …