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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged the media to stop describing Daniel Bwala, as his former aide.   Recall that Bwala served as Atiku’s campaign spokesperson for the 2023 presidential election. But, Atiku has dissociated himself from Bwala, saying he’s no longer his associate. Atiku urged the public to …

The Nigerian federal government has assured the organized labour that it will resume the payment of N35,000 wage awards to public workers this week.   The commitment was affirmed by the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, during a meeting with representatives of the Nigeria Labour Congress …

The Federal Government yesterday declared a staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria. CBN, Odoh Ocheme, and two other persons are wanted for allegedly forging the signature of former President Muhammadu Buhari to steal $6.2m cash from the apex bank.     In a letter addressed to the Assistant Inspector …

Access Corporation, the parent company of Access Bank, Nigeria’s biggest bank by assets, has appointed Bolaji Agbede, an executive director at the company, interim CEO two days after the death of Herbert Wigwe. The appointment was confirmed in a statement by Access Holdings on Tuesday morning.   “The appointment of Agbede …

Tributes have been pouring in over the death of the Group Executive Officer (CEO) of Access Holdings, Herbert Wigwe and five others who died in a helicopter crash in the US. Among them is former Vice President and the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, his …

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 42-year-old man said to be transporting thousands of concealed opioid pills to an insurgents’ enclave in the Banki area of Borno State. The suspect was among the 24 people accused of trafficking drugs across the country, NDLEA spokesperson, …

Herbert Wigwe, the co-founder of Access Bank and the founder, Wigwe University, has reportedly died in a helicopter crash in California, United States.   Wigwe was also the Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of Access Holdings, the parent company of Access Bank. He was reportedly on board the chopper with his …

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, have issued a 14-day nationwide strike notice to the Federal Government.   Their grouse is the non-implementation of the 16-point agreement between organised labour (NLC and TUC) and the Federal Government on October 2, 2023. Leaders of …

Google on Thursday announced a major rebrand of Bard, its artificial intelligence chatbot and assistant, including a fresh app and subscription options. Bard, a chief competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is now called Gemini, the same name as the suite of AI models that power the chatbot.     Google on …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday the time had come to change the country’s military leadership in the war against Russia, replacing army chief General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi.   Defence Minister Rustem Umerov said separately that the decision had been taken to change the military leadership. The statements follow days …