A staggering 222.6 million telephone subscribers were recorded by the National Bureau of Statistics in 2022. The bureau disclosed this in its Telecoms Data: Active Voice and Internet per State, Porting and Tariff Information report for the last quarter of 2022, released in Abuja on Monday. The data indicated an increase of 27.1 million subscribers…
Jack Dorsey, co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Twitter has launched a new application called ‘Bluesky’ on Android. Bluesky is to rival Twitter. It was launched on Android a few hours after Elon Musk removed Dorsey’s verification badge on the microblogging platform. The “social internet” of the future will give users more options…
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), has said that Nigerians no longer trust the government, especially those from the Southeastern region of the country. Okonjo-Iweala, who spoke virtually from Washington at the inauguration of the Transition Council of the Abia State Governor-elect, Dr Alex Otti, in Aba, regretted that…
Nigeria has again fallen by four places on the latest Corruption Perception Index, CPI, ranking released by Transparency International, TI, on Tuesday. Although in the 2022 ranking, Nigeria scored 24 out of 100 points, it fell from 150th to 154th out of 180 countries assessed in the 2022 ranking. The CPI is TI’s tool for…
A 51-year-old New Jersey woman has been arrested by the authorities for allegedly shooting her husband dead on Christmas day. Marylue Wigglesworth is accused of gunning down David Wigglesworth, 57, at their Mays Landing home Sunday night, the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed. Officers responded to the family’s Somers Point Road residence around 10:19 p.m.,…
As the new naira notes circulate, the Central Bank of Nigeria has released the security features of the newly released notes to aid in identifying fake notes. The N1,000 note has 23 security features, the N500 note has 15 security features, while the N200 note has 10 security features. Some of the security features the…
A 33-year-old lady, Rebecca Ikumelo has died from the injuries she sustained during the stampede that occurred at a concert organized by singer, Asake, in Brixton O2 Academy on Thursday, December 15. Late Ikumelo died in hospital on Saturday morning, December 17, after being critically injured in the stampede. She is survived by two children….
Popular Nigerian actress, Nkechi Blessing Sunday is celebrating the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi on his seventh coronation anniversary. Oba Ogunwusi was crowned on December 7, 2015 although his reign began unofficially on October 26, 2015. Congratulating the Ooni in an Instagram post on Wednesday, Nkechi shared a photo of the duo with a…
The federal government has announced that services along the Abuja–Kaduna rail corridor would resume on Monday, December 5, 2022. The Managing Director of Nigeria Railway Corporation, Fidet Okhiria, told the News Agency of Nigeria, on Thursday that all was set for the resumption of the services. Okhiria, however, advised passengers wishing to utilise the service…
Marketershave revealed that the lowest price the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited can sell Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, if there is no subsidy, is N400/litre. Punch reported that oil marketers made the disclosure on Sunday. They also gave other reasons for the continued scarcity of petrol, which had led to the lingering queues…