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The number of identified areas of clusters across Nigeria without access to the telecommunications services has been reduced by 53.1 per cent as at the end of 2022. The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Commission, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, disclosed this at a recent telecoms industry …

Former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has applauded President Bola Tinubu’s suspension of Godwin Emefiele as the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Last night, President Tinubu suspended Emefiele and directed him to immediately hand over to the Apex bank’s Deputy Governor (Operations Directorate) Folashodun Shonubi. Reacting …

LIB has obtained a video of suspended Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele getting arrested by operatives of the DSS at the airport while allegedly attempting to flee the country.  Emefiele was forced out of the car he was in and taken away by the DSS operatives.  DSS …

A suspected kidnapper has been shot dead by a joint security operatives during a mission to rescue 13 persons who were abducted at Isua, headquarters of Akoko South-East Local Government Area of Ondo State. The 13 persons were heading to Abuja on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, when gunmen abducted and marched …

A member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, has been killed by unknown assailants. It was gathered that Gideon Bitrus Gijuwa, was attacked and stabbed to death by the assailants at Mararaba, a border town between the FCT and Nasarawa State …

A 30-year-old photographer, Usman Sani Goga, has committed suicide in Akula Quarters, Babura Local Government Area of Jigawa State. The spokesperson of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in the state, CSC Adamu Shehu, who confirmed the incident in a statement on Thursday, June 8, 2023, said the …

The telecommunications and Information Services sector in Nigeria has, in the first quarter 2023, delivered a handsome N2.508 trillion in terms of financial value contribution to the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), representing 14.13 per cent. Figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed that the sector recorded …

The naira yesterday rebounded to N770/$1 at the parallel market after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu directed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to unify multiple  exchange rates in the market. As the market digested the directive, the local currency, which traded at N780/$1 at the parallel market on Monday, gained …

The first witness of the People Democratic Party on Thursday June 1, Joe Agada, has alleged that BVAS devices were manipulated in the last presidential election and that he was forced to sign the results as the state collation officer in Kogi State. Punch reports that Agada who is a …

Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), will be conferred with the esteemed National Productivity Order of Merit (NPOM) Award, among other notable Nigerians. The announcement was made in an advertorial signed by the Director General of the National Productivity Center, Dr. Nasir …