Central Bank of Nigeria Introduced New Charges For USSD Services

EconomyMoneyNewsCentral Bank of Nigeria Introduced New Charges For USSD Services

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 16, 2021

ABUJA — The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has introduced new charges for customers using the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) services. The apex bank has announced that from Tuesday, customers will pay N6.98 per transaction every time they use USSD services. This was contained in a statement jointly signed by CBN’s Acting Director, Corporate Communications, Osita Nwanisobi, and Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Ikechukwu Adinde. The statement read in part “Effective March...

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Kogi State Yet To Receive COVID-19 Vaccines

CoronavirusNewsVaccinationKogi State Yet To Receive COVID-19 Vaccines

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 16, 2021

The Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib on Monday confirmed that Kogi State is yet to receive COVID-19 vaccines. Shuaib disclosed this during a Press briefing of the PTF on COVID-19 in Abuja, explained that due to the ongoing repairs of the cold storage facility in Kogi State, it is yet to receive vaccines. He added that the state is now the only state yet...

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Comedienne Emmanuella Wins Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards

AfricaEntertainmentNewsComedienne Emmanuella Wins Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards

PilotnewsMarch 16, 2021

ABUJA — Nigerian Comedienne Emmanuella has won Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Award 2021, for Favourite African Social Media Star. She posted this on her Instagram handle and thanked her family and fans for their massive support. She wrote: “Congratulations to me as I won the Favourite African Social Media Star category at the Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards 2021. I am so happy to be a winner, thank you! To all my fans out there, I say...

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Dollar Holds Firm in Cautious Trading Before Fed Meets

EconomyWorld NewsDollar Holds Firm in Cautious Trading Before Fed Meets

PilotnewsMarch 16, 2021

TOKYO — The U.S. dollar clung to small gains on Tuesday as caution reigned in currency markets, ahead of major central bank meetings. The meeting begins with a two-day Federal Reserve gathering due to start later in the global day. The greenback hovered just off its highest since June versus the yen and cemented a position around $1.19 per euro in muted trading. The firmer tone for the dollar came despite a retreat in U.S....

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Ugwuanyi, Front liners In The Enugu State Health Sector Receives Covid19 Vaccine

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaVaccinationUgwuanyi, Front liners In The Enugu State Health Sector Receives Covid19 Vaccine

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)March 15, 2021

ENUGU — The Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Deputy Governor, Mrs. Cecilia Ezeilo, and the State Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Priscilla Ngozi Emehelu, on Monday, were vaccinated with Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Government House, Enugu. The trios were the first stakeholders to be vaccinated in the state apart from some frontline health workers at ESUT Teaching Hospital Isolation and Treatment Centre, Enugu vaccinated on Friday. Speaking to newsmen, the Executive Secretary, Enugu State...

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Abduction: 618 Schools Closed In Six Northern States

Crime & SecurityEducationNewsAbduction: 618 Schools Closed In Six Northern States

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 15, 2021

The spate of students’ abduction in Northern Nigeria has forced school authorities to close no fewer than 618 schools in six northern states over the fear of attack and abduction of pupils and members of staff. The six states affected by the closure are Sokoto, Zamfara, Kano, Katsina, Niger, and Yobe. The Sokoto state government has closed all boarding schools along with border towns. The state Commissioner for Security and Career Affairs, Col. Garba Moyi...

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Senator Ndume Calls For Power Shift To South, Opposes Amnesty for Bandits

Crime & SecurityNewsPoliticsSenator Ndume Calls For Power Shift To South, Opposes Amnesty for Bandits

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 15, 2021

Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume who represents Borno South District in the National Assembly on Sunday said the retention of the party’s presidential ticket in the North in 2023 would be tantamount to a third term for the region. Ndume, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain said the pre-2015 agreement among the founding fathers of the party favoured the rotation of the presidential slot between the North and the South. Ndume spoke on the 2023 succession...

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No Negotiation Or Amnesty To Criminals- Gov Ortom

Crime & SecurityLaw & JusticeNewsNo Negotiation Or Amnesty To Criminals- Gov Ortom

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 14, 2021

Governor Samuel Ortom Benue State says his administration will no longer negotiate with or grant amnesty to criminals under any guise in the state. He stated this on Saturday in Anyiin, Logo Local Government Area of the state at the burial of Mr. Terkura Suswam, the slain elder brother of the former governor, Sen. Gabriel Suswam. late Suswam was killed along with his aide, Mr. Solomon Utanor on March 2, close to his residence in...

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Gov Fintiri Offers Automatic Employment To Five Graduates of Adamawa State University

EducationNewsGov Fintiri Offers Automatic Employment To Five Graduates of Adamawa State University

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 13, 2021

YOLA —  Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa state has announced automatic employment to five best graduating students at the Adamawa State University and overseas scholarship to further their education. The Governor made the announcement in his speech at the third to fifteenth convocation ceremony of the institution Saturday with ninety-two students graduating with first-class honour degrees. The University held its last convocation twelve years ago following setbacks caused by Boko Haram attacks and industrial...

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Anambra State: Weighing Governor Obiano’s Seventh Year Stewardship by his Agenda

ColumnsNewsNigeriaOpinionAnambra State: Weighing Governor Obiano’s Seventh Year Stewardship by his Agenda

PilotnewsMarch 12, 2021

The administration is now seven years old and with only one year to go; it’s therefore, fair that the administration is evaluated on the basis of what it set out to do during the celebration of its one hundred days in office ―Ebuka Onyekwelu Nigerian governors, steeped in a culture of fanfare both for good or bad, for little or big accomplishment, has now established celebrating their one hundred days in office, as a mark...

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