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First non bank based credit card debuts in Nigeria
Sep 4, 2014The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN ’s cashless initiative, has received greater boost as a Lagos based company, 03 Capital Nigeria Limited introduced the first non bank based credit card in the country. The launch becomes... -
FG, Brazil to build N144b power plant in Bayelsa
Sep 1, 2014BY CHRIS OCHAYI ABUJA – The Federal Government and Benco Energy Limited of Brazil yesterday signed a N144 billion Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, to construct a 700 megawatts power plant in Nigeria. The President of Benco... -
Boko Haram kill scores in captured Nigeria town: witnesses
Aug 31, 2014Boko Haram gunmen have killed scores of residents in a Nigerian town on the border with Cameroon that they captured in recent raids, witnesses told AFP on Saturday. The militants seized Gamboru Ngala earlier this week... -
REVEALED: How Boko Haram is funded and why Jonathan cannot arrest sponsors
Aug 29, 2014A Perth-based international adviser, Dr. Stephen Davis, who survived months of extreme danger to try to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by terrorist group Boko Haram, has revealed that one of the primary sources... -
Nigeria launches national electronic ID cards
Aug 29, 2014Nigeria’s president has formally launched a national electronic identity card, which all Nigerians will have to have by 2019 if they want to vote. Goodluck Jonathan received the first biometric card which can also be used... -
Like war, terrorism is a big business
Aug 25, 2014By Odilim Enwegbara As far back as the Venetian Empire, international bankers recognized that lending to governments or monarchs to start or continue a war was more profitable than any other banking business. Not only more... -
The Most Corrupt People In Nigeria?
Aug 25, 2014By Michael Egbejumi-David Men in their 50s – especially the civil servants.At that age, men have lost their idealism, the stark reality of the Nigerian state stares them right in the face. I had often wondered... -
Where Are Our Girls?
Aug 25, 2014By Jude Obuseh The atavistic adoption of over 200 girls from a school in Chibok, Borno State, some months ago, by the Islamist fundamentalist group, Boko Haram, expectedly elicited international opprobrium as concerned members of the... -
Who wants General Buhari Dead?
Jul 31, 2014By Joe Igbokwe The latest attempt to bomb a prominent leader of APC, General Buhari out of existence portents grave danger for the survival of democracy, as well as Nigeria’s as a political entity. Whoever muted... -
Let’s Go And Die, Abroad!
Jul 28, 2014WRITTEN BY ADEOLA ADEROUNMU Nigeria in many ways continues to tag herself to the world as a sort of #jungle, #uncivilised, and a massively #underdeveloped geographical region. The shame of Nigeria escalates daily and the legions of Nigerian politicians...
