“A record year for ten-figure wealth has left the billionaire class bigger and richer than ever.What a year it’s been for the planet’s billionaires, whose fortunes continue to swell.” Forbes on Tuesday said more billionaires had joined the moneybags club in 2024 despite inflation and political unrest.Aliko Dangote, Mike Adenuga, Abdulsamad Rabiu and Femi Otedola…
The Ogun State Government is to conduct household surveys to develop a framework that will assist in planning, management, and evaluation of the multi-dimensional poverty human development index. The survey is expected to go one step further than the NBS Multidimensional poverty index. The survey will allow Governor Dapo Abiodun to assess the impact of…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will, on Thursday, arraign Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, two top officials of Binance Holdings Ltd, on five counts of money laundering charges. It was gathered on Tuesday that Binance, Mr Gambaryan and Mr Anjarwalla, who escaped from lawful custody on March 22 and fled Nigeria, will be…
That the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has done well in the area of infrastructure. We know and they know that the former Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has done well in the area of youth empowerment, youth inclusion and women inclusion in politics as far as Kogi State…
The Federal Government said on Tuesday that it planned to introduce courses on skills development and acquisitions at the basic education level. The minister of education,Tahir Mamman said this at the quarterly citizens and stakeholders’ engagement briefing by the federal ministry of education in Abuja. According to him, the ministry aims to produce a highly…
Tesla looks set to regain its title as the world’s top electric car maker as his auto company Tesla will reveal its quarterly delivery numbers on Wednesday April 03. This is expected with China’s BYD reporting on Monday that sales plummeted more than 40 per cent for the first three months of 2024. Analysts expect…
The 650,000 barrels per day Dangote Petroleum Refinery has pegged a minimum of one million litres of Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) diesel per marketer as it commences sales of the product today, Tuesday. Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) National President, Alhaji Abubakar Maigandi, disclosed this on Tuesday.” He said The least volume a…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it uncovered at least 1,665 fake A’level results during the 2023 Direct Entry registration exercise. The Board also said the A’level results verification regime was occasioned by the endemic corruption associated with the system and was intended to restore the integrity of this component of admission process….
The 44-year-old had never before held an elected office. However, several African leaders attended the ceremony in the new town of Diamniadio, near the capital Daka Mr Faye was released from prison less than two weeks before the March 24 election, along with popular opposition figure Ousmane Sonko, following a political amnesty announced by outgoing…
The naira continued its gain on Monday over the United States dollars at the parallel section of the foreign exchange (FX) market as it traded for N1,250/$. This is a 0.43 percent increase over the N1,280 recorded on March 29. Currency traders in Lagos, also known as bureau de change (BDCs) operators, gave the buying…
