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- 21 Feb 2018
World Child Innovation (Nigeria) Awards Jury Constituted
The jury has been constituted for the World Child Innovation Awards Nigeria.The jury includes eminent personalities such as Dr Aminat Showole, Adem Karaduman, Peter Oluka and Olajide Ademola Ajayi.…
- 19 Sept 2024
Polaris Bank Announces New Board Appointments
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has constituted a full Board of Directors for Polaris Bank, Nigeria’s leading digital commercial retail Bank in a major transition that signals the remarkable…
- 2 Jun 2026
Nigeria’s Children Under Siege as Politics Trumps over Governance
By Blaise Udunze Chapter Two, Section 14 (b) of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended) is explicit when it states that the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of…
- 11 Feb 2016
Etisalat Denies Filing Multiple Suits against NCC, MTN
Etisalat Nigeria said it has not filed multiple suits against the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and MTN Nigeria, rather it constituted court action against MTN and Visafone Limited…
- 18 May 2015
EPPAN Says 76m Nigerians Bank Accounts’ Holders
Electronic Payment Providers Association of Nigeria (EPPAN) has disclosed that the number of bank account holders in Nigeria constituting of both individuals and organisations has reached 76 million.…
- 9 Feb 2025
Femi Falana Files $5 Million Suit Against Meta for Alleged Invasion of Privacy
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Femi Falana has filed a $5, 000, 000 (Five million US dollar) suit before a Lagos High Court against the United States of America-based organization Meta Platforms…
- 20 Aug 2013
Ecobank Nigeria Gets Department to Finance Small Businesses
Ecobank Nigeria has set up a Microfinance department to support small business owners in Nigeria. These groups of people constitute the unstructured market and are small entrepreneurs whose…
- 5 Mar 2024
Barred Phone Lines: Lagos Lawyer Demands N10Bn Damages from Telcos, NCC
Mr. Olukoya Ogungbeje, Lagos-based activist and lawyer, has dragged telecommunication companies operating in Nigeria as well as the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to a Lagos Federal High…
- 25 Nov 2015
NCS to Honour Industry Achievers at NITMA Awards 2015
National Information technology Merit Awards (NITMA), constituted by the Nigeria computer Society (NCS) in 2009 is here again to honour IT/ICT industry achievers. Professor Adesola Aderounmu,…
- 13 Apr 2017
FAAN Fire Incidence: Committee Given 2 Weeks to Submit Report
Following the fire that ravaged its headquarters on Tuesday, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has constituted a panel of inquiry to investigate the incident. Engr Saleh Dunoma,…
- 10 Jan 2013
Faan Begins Removal of Abandoned Aircraft
Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (Faan) has constituted a task force on the disposal of abandoned aircraft in all airports across the country because of the safety hazard on the airside.…
- 15 Sept 2019
NGO Asks SEC to Sack Ndukwe, Others from MTN Board
Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) has given the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a 14-day ultimatum to delist some members of the newly constituted board of MTN Nigeria.…
- 1 Jul 2013
Court Sacks Service Chiefs, Says their Appointments Illegal
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday nullified the appointments of the nation’s security chiefs on the grounds that their appointments by President Goodluck Jonathan were without the…
- 7 Dec 2015
Angry Nigerians Sue NCC, MTN over Reduction of Fine
Messrs. Timipa Jenkins Okponipere and Gele Samuel Mathew of First Law Solicitors, Abuja, on Monday filed an application at the Federal High Court, Abuja, challenging the decision of the Nigeria…
- 10 Oct 2019
Court Stops FIRS from Enforcing VAT on Goods Consumed in Hotels
Justice Rilwanu Aikawa of the Federal High Court in Lagos has barred the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), from enforcing VAT provisions on goods and services consumed in hotels, restaurants…
- 23 Mar 2021
Court Orders Extension of NIN Registration by 2 Months
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the extension of the deadline for National Identity Number (NIN), by two months effective from Tuesday, March 23, 2021. Justice M.A. Onyetenu granted…
- 6 Aug 2021
EIE, PIN, MRA Sue FG, Telcos Over Twitter Suspension
A Coalition of civil right group, comprising of Enough is Enough (EIE) Paradigm Initiative, (PIN) and Citizens Gavel have filed a suit for fundamental rights against the Attorney General of the…
- 8 Jul 2018
HURIWA Calls FG Out over NBC’s N2Bn, N500m Bribe @ MTN
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), one of the nation's foremost pro-democracy and civil Rights organisations has described the recently signed executive order by President…
- 25 Jan 2018
Keyamo Asks FG to Release Probe Report on Suspended SEC Boss
Festus Keyamo (SAN), Lagos-based lawyer, has requested that the report of the investigation panel set up to probe the suspended Mounir Gwarzo, director general of the Securities and Exchange…
- 11 Jun 2019
FG Moves to Amend Cybercrimes Act
The Federal Government has stated that the Federal Ministry of Justice is committed to pursuing the amendment of the Cybercrimes Act, which many lawyers, journalists and activists have considered…
- 30 Dec 2013
Aviation Committee Assures Nigerians of Proactive Aviation Oversight
House of Representatives Committee on Aviation has assured Nigerians of more proactive and vibrant oversight in the aviation sector in year 2014. Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, chairman of the Committee, while…
- 25 Jul 2021
CBN Gov, Others Risk Arrest over Alleged Financial Violations
House of Representatives may issue a bench warrant against Godwin Emiefele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and 53 other heads of government agencies for gross violation of the…
- 17 Oct 2017
Right To Privacy? Nigeria Needs A Data Protection Law
By 'Gbenga Sesan “The privacy of citizens, their homes, correspondence, telephone conversations and telegraphic communications is hereby guaranteed and protected.” – Section 37 of the Nigerian…
- 17 Mar 2020
Reps Ask DSTV, Others to Introduce Pay As You Go Tariff
The House of Representatives has resolved to set up an ad-hoc committee to interface with Mutichoice Digital Satellite Television (DSTV) and other service providers to introduce the Pay as You Go…
- 4 Oct 2021
Court Faults CBN on Discriminatory Bank Charges
A federal high court sitting in Awka, Anambra state has faulted the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for imposing discriminatory bank charges on some categories of cash depositors from N500,000.00 and…
- 8 Apr 2015
ICT Industry Taps Uwaje to Lead NCS ahead of Elections
Following an amendment to its constitution during the 24th National Conference of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) held at Le Meridien Ibom Hotel, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State in 2012, it appears that the…
- 8 Sept 2015
Buhari Says Govs, Others Must Declare Assets, Picks Ministers Month End
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Aburi, Ghana, said that governors, ministers and top civil servants must declare their assets. The President also reiterated his promise of forming his cabinet…
- 18 Apr 2017
Counterfeiters Now Control 10% Phone Market Share in Nigeria
Fake phone manufacturers and importers seem to be having upper hand in the current battle with such products’ regulators in Nigeria, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek can report. According to an impeccable…
- 24 Mar 2022
NANS Gives MultiChoice 7-Day Ultimatum to Reduce Prices of GOtv, DStv Subscriptions
National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Zone D (South West) has given a 7-day ultimatum to MultiChoice Nigeria Limited to reverse the prices of its DStv and GOtv packages or risk having all…
- 31 Oct 2021
N5m Hate Speech Fine: Court to Deliver Judgment on Suit against FG Today
A Federal High Court in Lagos State presided by Justice A.L Allagoa will today deliver judgment in a fundamental rights suit filed by Inibehe Effiong, human rights lawyer, against the National…