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Nigeria’s tech sector is breaking new ground in fintech, artificial intelligence (AI), and healthtech, but founders warned that tightening regulations were slowing down growth. From data protection to cybersecurity, compliance rules were piling up and many startups said the web of government requirements was choking their ability to scale. To help ease the pressure, a […]
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Saturday announced that President Bola Tinubu has directed the immediate employment of all four children of the late Head of the FCT Civil Service, Mrs Grace Adayilo. The announcement was made at the National Christian Centre (Ecumenical) in Abuja, during the funeral service of Adayilo, […]
Akwa Ibom State governor, Pastor Umo Eno has disclosed plans to set up a State Electricity Regulatory Commission and Electrification Agency in alignment with the deregulation and decentralisation of the power management by the federal government. Speaking at the closing ceremony of the two-day electricity summit in Ikot Ekpene local government area of the state, […]
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has eliminated over 25 terrorists in a coordinated night operation at Bula Yobe and Banki on 18 September 2025. A statement by the NAF spokesman, Air Cdre Ehimen Ejodame said the Air Component, acting on reports from ground troops, deployed a force package comprising Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and […]
The Lagos State Police Command has apprehended a 46-year-old Jude Onouha who is said to be the leader of a notorious criminal syndicate impersonating security operatives to gain unlawful access into residential estates to vandalise high-end vehicles. Deputy Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Babaseyi Oluseyi told newsmen that Onouha and his gang […]
Global development partners and Nigerian delegates attending the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) have called for stronger partnerships and resource mobilisation to bridge massive funding gaps threatening the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Speaking at the UNGA Side Event on High-Level Executive Global Sustainable Investments and Grant […]
Passengers have been evacuated from Dublin Airport’s Terminal 2 as a “precautionary measure”.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has warned that democracy risks collapse if it continued to be practiced in its current form without urgent reforms. Speaking on Wednesday at the Democracy Dialogue of the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation in Accra, Ghana, Obasanjo said that while democracy was originally conceived as “government of the people, by the people, and […]
At least 70 people have been killed after a paramilitary drone attack on a mosque in Sudan.
Burundi has expressed strong support for the recent decision of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) to withdraw from the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The East African country was the first on the continent to leave the ICC on October 27, 2017, citing the Court’s alleged bias against […]
