The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited says it is prospecting for crude oil in more locations across the north as part of measures to shore up the country’s oil output and reserves. After discovering the commodity in Bauchi and Gombe states, NNPC stated that it was currently taking coordinated steps for more frontier exploration in

NFIU The Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has announced the prohibition of cash withdrawals from accounts belonging to the federal government, its agencies or parastatals, as well as state and local governments. Addressing journalists in his office in Abuja on Thursday, NFIU Head, Moddibo Haman Tukur, said this was necessary to arrest the rate by

A few years after going vegan in 2011, professor Joslin Mar-Dai Pickens, EdD, was looking for ways to convince her daughter to try more plant-based eating. “She was a teenager and she wanted hamburgers and pizza,” Dr. Mar-Dai Pickens says. “Stuff that she would normally eat.”So Mar-Dai Pickens, who lives in Shreveport, Louisiana, decided to

The Military Pensions Board says it has commenced the payment of Security Debarment Allowance owed to eligible military retirees or Next of Kin of deceased military personnel. A Security Debarment Allowance is the money paid to retired military personnel to discourage them from using the skills they acquired while in service against the government. In

PenCom The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has announced the release of N13.89 billion for the payment of their Accrued Pension Rights of 2022 retirees of treasury-funded Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). The commission revealed in a statement issued yesterday titled ‘Federal Government releases N13.89bn for payment of accrued rights for Contributory Pension Scheme retirees who retired

Nigerian DisCos Power consumers across the country have kicked against the quietly increased power tariff by Electricity Distribution Companies. Although most of the Discos did not make this public, electricity users have described it as “a perfect robbery” amidst the harsh economic realities in Nigeria currently. Reacting to the price hike, a resident of a

Kenneth Raydon Sharpe is the brain behind Zimbabwe’s leading real estate firm, West Property. The Zimbabwean businessman, philanthropist, and real estate developer is helping to scale the value of properties in the Southern African nation.  Sharpe had quite a rough childhood, growing up in a  colonised Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), when he was forced to flee to

Latest entertainment gist Jen Shah‘s upcoming sentence might be stiffer thanks to a woman who informed the feds about a restraining order she once got against the reality star … and prosecutors want the judge to take it into account. Prosecutors in Jen’s federal fraud case just filed new docs this week asking the court

More than 20 farmers were feared dead as a boat carrying about 100 farmers capsized in Koko/Besse Local Government Area of Kebbi State on Tuesday. Kebbi State Police spokesperson, DSP Nafiu Abubakar, confirmed the accident and promised to release details later. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Wednesday, chairman of Koko/Besse Local

President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Yakubu Maikyau, SAN, has advised lawyers in the country to be conscious of the strategic place they occupy in the nurturing of the nation’s democracy. Noting that lawyers will be playing critical role during and after the 2023 general elections, Maikyau called on lawyers to shun practices and

Electricity distribution companies (DisCos) in Nigeria have quietly increased tariffs by as much as 18.5 percent, with effect from December 1, 2022, leaving customers confused. BusinessDay findings showed that the two Discos in Lagos, Eko Electricity Distribution Company and Ikeja Electric, have hiked tariffs, with electricity bills being sent out to postpaid consumers. The Magodo

Drive and Neon Demon director Nicolas Winding Refn is back with his second TV project, Copenhagen Cowboy. Following his 2019 miniseries Too Old To Die Young, Copenhagen Cowboy is a noir-thriller which follows Miu (Angela Bundalovic) in her quest for vengeance in the criminal underworld of the Danish capital. A synopsis for the six-part series