Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT) has sounded the alarm, warning that Nigeria risks missing out on a whopping $1.2 trillion share of the global AI economy by 2030 if it doesn’t act fast. According to NIGCOMSAT’s Managing Director, Nkechi Egerton-Idehen, the...
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, has expressed his gratitude to President Bola Tinubu for his decisive action in ensuring the prompt payment of military salary increases with three months arrears. The statement, signed by Henshaw Ogubike, Director of...
Renowned Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Aare Afe Babalola, has accused lawyer and activist Dele Farotimi of defamation in his recently published book, “Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System”. The allegations stem from a Supreme Court judgment involving a land dispute that...
A Nigerian court has remanded human rights lawyer Dele Farotimi in the Ekiti State correctional centre. Farotimi was arraigned on a 16-count charge of alleged defamation of character, following the publication of his book, ‘Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System’. The book...
The House of Representatives on Tuesday, resolved to set up an ad-hoc committee to investigate the circumstances that led to the mass retirement of 1,000 staff members of the Central Bank of Nigeria The House also resolved to ascertain the N50bn payoff earmark for the settlement of the...