Year: 2025
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Naira records strongest 2025 performance at official, parallel markets
TheCableNews The naira, on Thursday, strengthened to N1,455.23 at the official section of the foreign exchange (FX) market. The local currency appreciated by 1.36 percent from N1,475.34/$ traded on September 30. The last time the exchange rate hit the N1,400 region was in May, 2024. The current exchange rate signals the naira’s strongest performance in…
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Ghana, MultiChoice sign deal on free DStv subscription upgrades for citizens
TheCable News The Ghanaian government and MultiChoice have reached an agreement to upgrade DStv subscribers in the country to higher packages at no additional cost. According to a report by TechAfrica News on Wednesday, Samuel Nartey George, minister of communications, digital technologies, and innovation, announced the deal on Tuesday after a committee review of DStv’s…
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18 major takeaways from Tinubu’s Independence Day speech
The Nation Newspaper President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday, in his 65th Independence Anniversary broadcast, paid tribute to Nigeria’s founding fathers while defending his administration’s tough economic reforms. He admitted that Nigerians are “racing against time” to fix decades of underinvestment in power, roads, and infrastructure, but assured that the country has “turned the corner”…
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Dangote, PENGASSAN meeting ends in deadlock
Vanguard News The Federal Government’s efforts to broker peace between the management of Dangote Refinery, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, over the alleged mass sack of union members ended in a deadlock on Monday night. The meeting, which commenced at about 3: 30 p.m. at the Minister of…
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FULL LIST: Reviewed mandatory requirements for mobilisation or exemption from NYSC for graduates
The Nation Newspaper From October 6, graduates will not be mobilised or exempted from NYSC without proof of compliance with the Nigeria Education Repository and Databank (NERD) policy, The Nation reports. Recently, President Bola Tinubu invoked provisions of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Act to approve a mandatory compliance with the national policy for…
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PENGASSAN, DANGOTE, AND THE PERILS OF UNCHECKED CAPITALISM IN NIGERIA’S OIL SECTOR: WHY PROTECTING UNIONISM MATTERS
By Olatunde Olayinka Damillola It has always been ASUU but this time it is PENGASSAN, an acronym for Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN). On the 28th of September 2025, PENGASSAN ordered a nationwide strike, directing the interruption of gas supplies to Dangote refineries, in response to the dismissal of 800…
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Petrol depot prices to drop more than 4% as Dangote Refinery restores Naira sales
Vanguard News The depot prices of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol, could drop by more than 4.19 per cent to N835 per litre from N870 per litre as the Dangote Petroleum Refinery resumes sales on Naira. Confirming the resumption, the refinery, stated: “Following the intervention of the Naira for Crude Transaction Committee…
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Inside Crisis Facing Medics: Doctors in Nigeria earn N2m, JAPA counterparts in UK N50mdoctor
Vanguard •Doctors-in-Training in the UK: Over N50m annually The death of Dr. Oluwafemi Rotifa, a Resident Doctor at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital (RSUTH) in Port Harcourt, early September 2025, is still fresh in the minds of Nigerians. He had died of overwork after a 72-hour continuous shift. He went to the call room…
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Security agents nab kidnap kingpin, 4 others in Kwara
No fewer five kidnap suspects were arrested in Kwara State by security agents on Friday. Also 127 bags of cannabis were found hidden in a lorry-load of yam. The arrest and interception was made by the Joint Security Forces. Among those arrested on Friday were a notorious Tukur Ibrahim from Tsaragi, who unleashed kidnappings terror…
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FBI places ₦14m reward for information leading to arrest of Nigerian man
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has announced a reward of up to $10,000 (about N14m) for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Nigerian national, Olumide Adebiyi Adediran, who has been on the run for more than two decades. Adediran absconded from the Central District of Illinois in late December 2001, just before…