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16 hours ago
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has warned that incessant scarcity of cash in the country may lead to a revolution, noting that deliberate cash squeeze amounts to human right violation.
17 hours ago
The pronouncement of the Supreme Court last week extending the validity of both the old and the new Nara notes as legal tender until further notice should provide some relief to anxious Nigerians who are already lamenting the scarcity of naira...
1 day ago
Stakeholders and elders of Agbor in Delta State have raised concerns over the safety of former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, whom they alleged is currently being sequestered and shackled like a common criminal by the Nigerian state.
3 days ago
ActionAid Nigeria has warned that the current decision of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to lift Forex ban on rice importation will significantly affect government’s plan to achieve self sufficiency in rice production.
3 days ago
In a captivating address delivered at the 7th National Conference of the Association of Mobile Money and Bank Agents in Nigeria (AMMBAN) held in Abuja on November 22nd, Mr Deremi Atanda, Managing Director of Remita Payment Services Limited (RPSL), outlined a human-centric approach to agency banking as a cornerstone for advancing financial inclusion nationwide. The…
4 days ago
>Despite the economic gains that have come with the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) policies that enhanced the use of Point of Sale (PoS) machines for financial transactions across the country, the devious activities of scammers are discouraging many from making use of the technology in their business deals.
4 days ago
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced that from April 2024, accounts without Bank Verification Number (BVN) and National Identity Number (NIN) will be frozen.
1 Dec
The Central Bank of Nigeria has warned bank account holders that accounts without a Bank Verification Number (BVN) and National Identification Number (NIN) will be frozen.
1 Dec
The Senate’s panel on gas resources, which is investigating the N135 billion Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) intervention funds given to some companies in the oil and gas sector, has threatened to alert anti-graft agencies to recover the money from defaulting beneficiaries.
30 Nov
There are indications that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has discreetly redeployed top officials in the apex bank as part of moves to reinvigorate the institution.
30 Nov
The Supreme Court, yesterday, ruled that the old and new naira notes remain legal tender till further notice.
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The Ogun State Police Command has arrested two suspects, Akeem Usman and Ifadowo Niyi, for the alleged ritual murder of Quadri Salami, an 18-year-old 100-level student at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU).
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Azerbaijan said Wednesday it wants reassurances from the United States on bilateral ties for Washington to continue mediating normalisation talks with arch-foe Armenia. The Caucasus neighbours have been locked in a decades-long conflict the over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Azerbaijan reclaimed after a lightning offensive against Armenian separatists in September. Both countries have said a…
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Israeli authorities have approved the construction of more than 1,700 new homes, a non-governmental organisation said Wednesday, a move constituting the expansion of settlements in occupied east Jerusalem.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, 6 December 2023 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/-Safaricom M-PESA Mobile Financial Services PLC and Chapa Financial Technologies Share Company have entered into a partnership agreement to provide M-PESA services for entrepreneurs, businesses, and government services on Chapa’s payment aggregator platform. The partnership aims to boost the ease of transactions for both merchants and M-PESA customers…
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LUSAKA, Zambia, 6 December 2023 /African Media Agency (AMA)/-From November 1-3, fintech stakeholders from around Africa and the globe converged in Lusaka, Zambia, for the 10th edition of the Africa Fintech Summit. Historically, AFTS has been the go-to platform for fintech startups, banks, corporations, telcos, government agencies, venture capital firms, and other industry players to…
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Tensions rose between Venezuela and Guyana on Tuesday as Caracas proposed a bill to create a Venezuelan province in a disputed oil-rich region and ordered the state oil company to issue licenses for extracting crude there. Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro proposed at a government meeting that a bill be sent to the National Assembly for…
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A miner has been pulled out alive from under a mudslide five days after being trapped underground with many others when torrential rains hit Zambia's main copperbelt region, authorities said on Wednesday.