Author: Alexa Obiora

To make digital transactions on the Google Play Store simpler for Nigerians, Google has teamed up with Verve. The company announced that starting of Wednesday (today), Nigerians can now make purchases on the Google Play Store using their Verve cards. According to the announcement, as part of their new agreement, Google would handle Verve transactions within Nigeria. These transactions will be made in naira and will be viewed as local ones by the nation’s banking institutions. Commenting on the development, the Head of Retail and Payment Partnerships, Google Play, Anthea Crawford, said, “We are thrilled to collaborate with Verve, expanding…

A conflict between competing cult groups at the well-known Eke Awka market in the Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State resulted in the shooting death of one individual, Igwe Omeli. It was learned that the incident took place on Wednesday morning during a conflict between opposing cult groups over control of the famous market. The deceased was thought to be one of the market’s Aye cult leaders, who was employed to coerce traders into paying levies and adhering to other rules and regulations. As traders hurried to safety on their way to their respective stores, the incident spread…

Abiodun provided this information in an interview that our reporter saw on Tuesday night’s episode of Channels Television. In order to lessen the effects of the state’s suspension of fuel subsidies, Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun disclosed the state has begun planning to convert buses from diesel to CNG (Compressed Natural Gas). Abiodun provided this information in an interview that our reporter saw on Tuesday night’s episode of Channels Television. He said, “The conversion is not restricted to state-owned mass transit buses alone and will extend to privately owned minibusses across the state at the expense of the government.” He…

Tajudeen Abbas, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has established an Ad hoc Committee to look into the estimated $9.05 billion revenue loss from gas flaring in Nigeria over the past ten years. At the House ad hoc committee on Gas Flaring’s Monday inauguration, Abbas gave the committee a mandate to identify the underlying factors that contribute to the problem and offer solutions. He claimed that the investigation is a recognition of the urgent need to comprehend and lessen the effects of this behavior on the environment, society, and the economy. “The task before this ad hoc committee is…

Earl Osaro Onaiwu, the first Director General of the Nigeria Governors Forum, has encouraged the 36 state governors to act promptly in response to the terrible suffering brought on by the elimination of gasoline subsidies by the federal government. The state administration, according to Onaiwu, can no longer rely on monthly allotments. In a statement he issued on Tuesday in Abuja, he said, “The most logical next step is for state governors to deploy at least 200 buses to alleviate the exorbitant cost of daily transportation commuters encounter inside the state. “While bus service will not be free, the return…

Sens. Abdullahi Adamu and Iyiola Omisore, the former national chairman and secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, met with President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday in a private meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Prior to the National Caucus and National Executive Council, NEC, sessions that were set to take place on Monday, July 18 and Tuesday, July 19, respectively, Adamu and Omisore reportedly resigned from their roles last week. The pair allegedly submitted their letter of resignation, leading to the postponement of the meeting. President Tinubu, the party’s overall leader, is given a lot of power and…

The custody dispute over the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, between agents of the Department of State Services and representatives of the Nigeria Correctional Service resulted in a minor drama in the Federal High Court in Lagos. Emefiele was charged by the Federal Ministry of Justice with illegally possessing firearms and ammunition, but after entering a “not guilty” plea, he was released on bail in the amount of N20 million with one surety. A minor drama involving completely hooded DSS agents and NCS agents took place inside the courthouse as the defendant’s attorneys worked to fix his…

Godwin Emefiele, the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to the alleged gun possession charge brought against him by the Federal Government. Around 9:20 am, the tainted CBN boss came at the courthouse for his accused gun possession trial. He is being tried for two charges of illegally owning the JOJEFF MAGNUM 8371 single-barrel shotgun. According to The Spectator, the Department of State Services charged the suspended CBN governor with two counts of illegal procession of firearms and ammunition on July 13, 2023. Emefiele was charged by the DSS with illegally owning a…

On July 25, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) suspended Governor, will appear before the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court. Following accusations made against him by the Department of State Services (DSS), the troubled CBN chairman, who has been detained by the DSS, is scheduled to submit his plea before Justice Nicholas Oweibo. You may recall that on June 10, a day after President Bola Tinubu had dismissed Emefiele from his position as governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, security agency agents barged into his Ikoyi home in Lagos. He was detained after being…

Beginning on Sunday, the island-bound lane of the Alaka-Costain-Iganmu segment of the Eko Bridge will be off-limits to drivers. The closure was announced in a statement on Thursday in Lagos by the Federal Controller of Works for Lagos State, Mrs. Olukorede Kesha. She explained that the reason for the closure was to do repairs on some of the bridge’s components that had been damaged. “It should be noted that any further delay in the repairs and replacement of some of these bridge members could undermine the integrity and structural stability of the entire bridge and the consequence of this can…