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Apr

25

2023

Herdsmen murder Labour Party Chairman in Benue

Metro, NewsCrime, Herdsmen, Metro, Nigeria, Security

Unknown gunmen causing mayhem in Benue State have killed a Chairman of the Labour Party, Mr. Nathaniel Ochoche. Ochoche, who was the Edikwu Ward 2 Chairman of the party in Apa Local Government Area of the state, was murdered alongside four others at the weekend. The party’s Publicity Secretary in the state, Mr. Tersoo Orbunde confirmed the incident in a statement he issued and made available to reporters on Monday. It read: “It is with rude shock that the Benue State Secretariat of the Labour party received the news of the gruesome murder of its Chairman in Edikwu Ward 2…

Apr

22

2023

By Kalu Odinakachi

Sowore rejects Buhari’s apology – Pains you caused Nigerians will haunt you

Economy, Metro, Opinion, Politics2023, Bandits, Crime, Economy, Metro, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, Politics, Security

The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, in the 2023 general election, Omoyole Sowore has rejected an apology offered to Nigerians by President Muhammadu Buhari as his administration wind-up. Buhari had on Friday asked Nigerians to pardon him, especially those he might have hurt while discharging his duties. Reacting to Buhari’s apologies, Sowore in a tweet on his official handle, reeled out reasons the president may never be forgiven. Sowore said the president did not only hurt Nigeria but dehumanized citizens of the country with some unfavourable policies. He declared that the opportunities President Buhari “crushed will continue to…

Apr

16

2023

By Freeman

IMF advices African countries including Nigeria to adjust exchange rate

Business, Economy, MetroAfrica, Business, Economy, IMF, Metro, Nigeria

The International Monetary Fund has advised Sub-Saharan African countries to seek currency adjustments (devaluation) due to the realities of rising global interest rates and limited access to funding. The fund opines that “some adjustment of currencies seems unavoidable in many cases” even if their reaction was to resist it. “There are certainly some reasons for sub-Saharan African countries to resist exchange rate pressures, including an elevated share of foreign-currency debt and weakly anchored inflation. But countries have to adjust to new fundamentals of higher global interest rates and tighter financing conditions that are expected to last into the foreseeable future. For most countries, the…

Apr

16

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

Meet Emmanuel Njoku, 21-year old drop out and founder of Lazerpay

Business, Economy, Education, LifestyleEconomy, Education, Lifestyle, Metro

One of the hottest topics among netizens in recent weeks is the shutdown of Lazerpay, a web3 and crypto payment company, that was transforming crypto payment experiences for individuals and businesses across the world. The CEO and co-founder of Lazerpay is Emmanuel Njoku, an audacious young man, who dropped out of school at age 19 to fund the startup. Emmanuel Njoku was born and raised in Port Harcourt, Rivers State Nigeria. He would recount that his family was pretty competitive and so, he always put extra effort into his studies. Born to an engineer father and a school teacher mother,…

Apr

10

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

FG bars online banks from accessing customers’ photos, contacts

Business, Economy, Lifestyle, MetroBusiness, Economy, Metro, Nigeria

Loan apps on Play Store will lose their ability to access their users’ contacts or photos from May 31, 2023. This came as the Federal Government said it would enforce the latest policy by Google, saying the action was consistent with the Nigerian authorities’ move to curtail the invasion of customers’ privacy by loan app firms. The Federal Government had in recent time taken major decisions aimed at tackling the violation of customers’ privacy by loan apps. Notably, the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission had recently registered 170 loan apps out of the 200 operating in the country. Google,…