Some cryptocurrency players have taken to their Twitter accounts to express their reaction over the Central Bank of Nigeria’s order to shut down cryptocurrency operations. The Central Bank on Friday ordered banks and other financial institutions to identify persons and entities operating cryptocurrency exchanges and close all such accounts. Many experts have criticised the decision...
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See the First Made-In-Nigeria Electric Car Unveiled in Abuja (Photo)
Nigeria has delivered its first made-in-Nigeria electric car named, Hyundai Kona.. The car was unveiled by the National Automotive Design and Development Council, NADDC, in collaboration with the Stallion Group. Speaking at the unveiling in Abuja on Friday, the NADDC Director-General, Jelani Aliyu, said that by 2025, at least 30 percent of passenger vehicles in Nigeria...
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Airtel Commences NIN Registration In Retail Outlets Across Nigeria
Nigeria’s telecommunications service provider, Airtel Nigeria, has begun to register NIN. Airtel, on Thursday says it has commenced the National Identity Number (NIN) registration exercise in its retail outlets across the country. Airtel in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos said it was following an approval from the...
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BREAKING: Nigeria’s Telephone Subscribers Hits 208 Million
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has disclosed that telephone subscribers in Nigeria are now 208 million. NCC’s Executive Vice Chairman, Prof Umar Danbatta, stated this in Abuja. He said the nation’s broadband penetration also peaked at 45. 07 percent as at November 2020. He spoke during a load down of new developments in the telecommunications...
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Nigeria’s unity questionable —Jonathan
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said the nation’s unity is questionable. He observed that the youths in the country prefer to identify with regional affiliations than a nayional body. He said this during a command performance by the Commonwealth Community Choir tagged ‘Peace for All Nations’ at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abuja, on Friday....
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OVERSIGHT FUNCTION:ENUGU HOUSE COMMITTEE ON WORKS TOURS CONSTRUCTION SITES
The Enugu State house of Assembly’s Committee on works headed by the Rt. Hon. Chima E. Obieze, has taken to the fulfillment of their civil obligations as they tour all the constructional sites of every project done for and by Enugu state government in a bid to monitor the progress of the work done therein....
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PICTURE NEWS: FLIGHTS RESUME IN ENUGU AIRPORT
The Executive Governor of Enugu state, Dr. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, represented by the Deputy Governor of the state, Mrs. Cecilia Ezeilo, has on Monday, commissioned the operations of Ibom Airlines in the recently refurbished Akanu Ibiam international Airport, Enugu. This is to commence the resumption of Flights by Airlines such as Air peace, Ibom Air and...
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EKWEREMADU’S WATER-FOR-ALL INITIATIVE: BOREHOLE NUMBERS TOLLS UP TO 42
The water-for all- initiative, founded by the former deputy president of the senate, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu has succeeded in birthing not fewer than Forty boreholes in Enugu-west Senatorial District. UGAMATV learnt this during the second round of an inspectional tour around the community water projects in Ezeagu local government, a part of the Enugu west...
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BILL GATES DEBUNKS RUMOURS OF INVENTING COVID-19
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates on Thursday pushed back against some of the conspiracy theories spreading online accusing him of creating the coronavirus outbreak. “It’s a bad combination of pandemic and social media and people looking for a very simple explanation,” the Microsoft founder said during a CNN Town Hall interview. Doctored photos and fabricated news...
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JONATHAN APPRECIATES BUHARI FOR NAMING RAILYWAY STATION AFTER HIM
Former President Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday, said his relationship with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), “is okay”. Jonathan also appreciated the President for naming a railway station in Agbor, Delta State, after him. We had earlier reported that Buhari on Saturday approved that the name of the railway station be called the Goodluck...