•It’ll provide knowledge-based financial literacy ― Emefiele Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin I. Emefiele has said that the launch of SabiMONI e-Learning platform would help provide individuals with the opportunity to be trained and to become Certified Financial Literacy Trainers (CFLT) through self-service. A fully digital national e-learning platform that provides…
The federal government has expressed its objection to the bill now before the National Assembly seeking to control the migration of doctors for greener pastures abroad. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, gave the position while fielding questions from correspondents on the outcome of the extraordinary Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over…
Nigerian media personality, Ifedayo Olarinde, aka Daddy Freeze, has asserted that Nigerians with less than N500,000 in their accounts are living below poverty. He stated this in a video message shared via his Instagram page recently. The OAP said only those who live in villages will be comfortable having less than N500,000 in their accounts….
Prof. Athahiru Jega, former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has recommended that the one-year National Youth Service Scheme (NYSC) should not be made mandatory. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the NYSC 50th anniversary celebration in Abuja on Monday, he said if any activity should be mandatory, then it should be only…
PIONEER National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bisi Akande, yesterday, lamented that failure of successive governments to have a development plan for critical sectors of the economy is responsible for the country’s underdevelopment. Akande said this at a lecture in honour of Reuben Fasoranti, in Akure, Ondo State. The former Osun State governor,…
Popular Nigerian chef Hilda Buci has broken the old longest cooking hours previously held by Indian Chef Lata Tondon who made meals for 87 hours, 45 minutes and 00 seconds. The chef at the time of writing this report, had cooked for 87 hours and 50 minutes and still cooking. As the famous chef goes…
The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control Sunday warned users/consumers against the use of PrimeZen Black 6000mg, a male performance enhancement capsule, recalled from the market. NAFDAC Director-General, Mojisola Adeyeye, in a statement, said Volt Candy was voluntarily recalling the one lot of PrimeZen Black 6000mg capsule alongside its 2000mg due to…
The President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has expressed his support for Hilda Bassey Effiong, better known as Hilda Baci, the Nigerian chef on a mission to break the Guinness World Record for cooking. The chef has been getting massive support, especially from Nigerians, since she started her cooking project “Cook-a-thon”. Thousands flooded her Instagram live session…
Two businessmen who were arrested by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja for cocaine ingestion have both excreted 193 pellets of the illicit drug after three days in observatory custody. The traffickers, Onoh Ebere, 49; and Christian Ifeanyi Ogbuji, 47, were intercepted at…
Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeat maestro, Fela Kuti, has explained why he slapped a police officer in uniform. Sahel had reported how the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, ordered the arrest of Seun after he was captured assaulting the police operative on duty. Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Force Public Relations Officer, disclosed this in a…
