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CBN intervenes with Fresh $325.64m By Obinna Chima with agency report Britain’s Export Finance Agency will add the Naira to its list of “pre-approved currencies”, allowing it to provide financing for transactions with Nigerian businesses denominated in the local currency. The Naira will become...

Chinese pay per view television, StarTimes, has announced that it now has about four million customers on the network. The figures were given by the Vice President of the company, Mrs. Guo Zi Qi, at the Chinese New Year and Animation Festival in Abuja. Guo said that the digital … Read more...

Chiemelie Ezeobi Following the viral video of an alleged attack by herdsmen along the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway, the Lagos State Police Command wednesday debunked the claims. In a statement made available to THISDAY by the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chike Oti, the command described...

Shettima lauds war theatre commander, Nicholas, says predecessor was a disaster Olawale Ajimotokan and Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri The Nigerian government has paid the United States government $496 million for the acquisition of 12 Super Tucano fighter jets to be used by the Nigerian Air Force...

Forum insists meeting not targeted at 2019 By Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja Three weeks after he was reappointed by President Muhammadu Buhari as the Director General of his 2019 election campaign, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, at the weekend hosted the ex-Speakers Forum meeting in...

Eterna Plc and Conoil Plc are leading the oil and gas sector at the stock market in terms of capital gains in the New Year. Following the recovery of the market from a three-year decline, the market appreciated 42.3 per cent last year. As the rally continued in 2018, the NSE All-Share has …...

Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has assured that ongoing general renovation work on Stephen Keshi Stadium Asaba would be completed in readiness for the hosting of the 2018 edition of the African Senior Athletics Championship. Okowa, who gave the assurance when he inspected the 22,000-capacity …...

In order to quell the ongoing war between Dangote Group and BUA Group over the mining rights in Obuh, Okpella, Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State, the federal government has ordered both companies to vacate the site to prevent a breakdown of law and order in the area READ MORE HERE

Former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna State, Alhaji Yaro Makama Rigachikun, who decamped to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2015, has dumped the party. Rigachikun returned to the PDP,alongwith his followers at the weekend in Kaduna. He was received...

Yunusa Dahiru, the young man accused of abducting and sexually exploiting the 14-year-old Ese Oruru, has been granted bail by the Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, ThisDay live reports. Details later