Pastor Bills Members N310,000 As Rapture Fee To Heaven

MoneyReligionPastor Bills Members N310,000 As Rapture Fee To Heaven

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 27, 2022

KADUNA — Senior Pastor of the Christ High Commission Ministry, also known as Royal Christ Assembly, Kaduna State, Pastor Ade Abraham has convinced a number of his members to relocate with him to a camp in Ekiti State where he would prepare them for the rapture which he claims is imminent, but at a fee of N310,000. According to reports, the preacher has allegedly built a camp in Ekiti state where he told his members...

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Buhari Appoints Jaji Abdulganiyu CG For Fire Service

Accidents and SafetyJobsNewsBuhari Appoints Jaji Abdulganiyu CG For Fire Service

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 27, 2022

ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Jaji Abdulganiyu as the Controller General of the Federal Fire Service (FFS). The appointment was announced in a statement posted on the verified Twitter handle of the Ministry of Interior on Tuesday. According to the statement signed by Aisha Rufai, secretary of the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Services Board (CDFIPB), Abdulganiyu began his new role on April 22. “President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of...

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Twitter Confirms Billionaire Entrepreneur, Elon Musk, To Buy Platform At $44bn

BusinessTwitter Confirms Billionaire Entrepreneur, Elon Musk, To Buy Platform At $44bn

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 26, 2022

Twitter on Monday confirmed it is selling the platform to billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk in a deal valued at $44 billion. The sale was a dramatic shift for the board, which had originally maneuvered to block Musk from taking the social media network private. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” Musk said in a joint...

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Elon Musk Buys Twitter For $44bn, Promises Free Speech

BusinessNewsElon Musk Buys Twitter For $44bn, Promises Free Speech

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 26, 2022

The board of Twitter has agreed to a $44bn takeover offer from the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, the company announced on Monday. Musk, who made the shock bid less than two weeks ago, said Twitter had “tremendous potential” that he would unlock. Mr. Musk’s offer came after frequent complaints about claims of content censorship and lack of free speech on the site. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the...

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Price of Cooking Gas Rises By 83.62% In One Year – Report

BusinessNewsPrice of Cooking Gas Rises By 83.62% In One Year – Report

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 23, 2022

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday disclosed in its report that the average retail price of cooking gas increased by 83.62 per cent from N2057.71 in March 2021. The March 2022 report also revealed the average price for refilling a 5kg Cylinder of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking Gas) stood at N3778.30 in March 2022 from N3708.58 recorded in February 2022 showing an increase of 1.88 per cent month-on-month. According to state profile analysis,...

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Emefiele Explains Why CBN Cannot Afford to Float Exchange Rate

EconomyMoneyNewsEmefiele Explains Why CBN Cannot Afford to Float Exchange Rate

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 23, 2022

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has said that despite calls and recommendations by the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other global financial institutions, Nigeria cannot afford to operate a floated exchange rate system. Emefiele made this known at the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington DC, United States. He spoke in reaction to a charge by the President of the World Bank Group, David Malpass, for Nigeria to...

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Google Launches Subsea Cable In Lagos, Says It Will Boost Nigerian GDP by $10.1bn, Create Jobs

BusinessNewsTelecommunicationGoogle Launches Subsea Cable In Lagos, Says It Will Boost Nigerian GDP by $10.1bn, Create Jobs

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 22, 2022

LAGOS — Google, on Thursday, unveiled plans to go for the heart of Nigeria’s Internet market with its Equiano submarine cable. Google landed the cable with its partner, WIOCC, a prominent African digital backbone company in Lagos yesterday. The state-of-the-art Equiano subsea cable, which will become a critical element in meeting Nigeria’s current and future international connectivity demands, according to Google, would reduce the retail cost of Internet prices by 21 per cent after its...

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“Fake Products In Nigeria Are More Than The Original”, Williams Uchemba Laments

BusinessStandards & Consumer Protection“Fake Products In Nigeria Are More Than The Original”, Williams Uchemba Laments

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 22, 2022

Nollywood actor, Williams Uchemba has decried the high rate of fake products in the country. Uchemba took to his Instastory to lament on Friday, stating that the number of fake products in the country are more than the original products. He added that it is painful that some vendors still sell counterfeit products at the price of the original. The father of one suggested that vendors should have both fake and original products so that...

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OPINION: General Election 2023: How Nigeria’s Democracy Revolves Around Money

ColumnsMoneyOpinionPoliticsOPINION: General Election 2023: How Nigeria’s Democracy Revolves Around Money

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)April 21, 2022

To understand how Nigerian politics works, one has to fairly appreciate the cost of the exercise called ‘consultation’ before the primary election, which public office seekers engage in. Politics all over the world is an expensive venture. In Nigeria, it is no different except that every aspect of our politics is excessively monetized to the point that anyone who does not have enough money to oil these processes is traditionally regarded as unserious. Now that...

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Abuja Electricity Distribution Company Disconnects Government Offices Over Debt In Niger

BusinessNewsPowerAbuja Electricity Distribution Company Disconnects Government Offices Over Debt In Niger

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 21, 2022

MINNA — Niger State House of Assembly, Office of the Secretary to the State Government, and water board are among other government offices that resorted to using generators to power their offices due to the disconnection of the offices by the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) over a debt amounting to N1.9 billion. AEDC regional manager in Minna in a document issued on Friday said the debt spanned over eight years and vowed not to...

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