MTN Nigeria has launched its FibreNet product and services in Abuja using CITEC estate as its pilot. Auwal Abdullahi, MTN senior manager Enterprise Business in the North, said the decision to start with the estate “was borne out ...

The World Bank has cut its growth forecast for Nigeria and other sub-Saharan African countries this year to 2.8 percent from an initial 3.3 percent, it said on Monday, reports Reuters. The commodity price slump of 2015 cut ...

Santander has become the latest bank to be dragged into a multimillion-pound lawsuit over alleged tax avoidance schemes used by wealthy celebrities. The Spanish bank is to be sued over the Imagine film-financing scheme that was part-funded by ...

Nigeria recorded a drop in reported piracy incidents at sea in the first three months of 2019, the International Maritime Bureau’s (IMB) has said. Nigeria has been a hotspot for piracy incidents over the past decade but the ...

Electricity Generation Companies (GenCos) say they released 3,522 megawatts of electricity into the national grid on April 7. GenCos made this known in their daily energy report released on Monday. They said the electricity released by the GenCos, ...

Bitcoin reacts to the formed double top pattern on failing to break above $5,343. The bulls must defend the short-term support at $5,200 to avoid declines that could refresh the levels close to $5,000. Bitcoin continued with the ...

Ousmane Dembele is part of Barcelona’s squad to face Manchester United in Wednesday’s Champions League quarter-final. The French international winger hasn’t featured for Ernesto Valverde’s men since injuring a hamstring in the 5-1 win over Lyon in the ...

Over the weekend, speculation over a move by Inter Milan to pick up Bayern Munich legend Arjen Robben seemed to stall when interest from Major League Soccer was noted. The 35-year-old Robben has announced he plans to leave ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will host Theresa May for talks on Tuesday, on the eve of a crucial EU summit when the British premier is hoping to convince the bloc to grant her a new Brexit extension to ...

Chelsea playmaker Eden Hazard is not the only Premier League star who is being linked with Spanish giants Real Madrid. According to TeamTalk Real may not bother with the pursuit of Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea and ...

The National Bureau of Statistics says the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board recorded a  4.01 per cent drop in the applications received in 2018. The NBS, in its JAMB Applications and Admitted Candidates by State and Gender within ...

Chartered Institute of Forensic and Investigative Auditors of Nigeria,  CIFIAN, has raised the alert over N25 billion cyber fraud recorded in the nation’s financial institution in the last five years The Pro-tem President of CIFIAN, Dr Victoria Enape, ...

The Federal Government on Saturday signed a $523,823 (N186 million) technical assistant agreement grant with the Islamic Development Bank (ISDB) Group, in Marrakesh, Morocco. A Finance Ministry statement on Sunday said Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed, signed on Nigeria’s ...

The Executive Directors of the World Bank at the weekend unanimously selected David R. Malpass as President of the Group for a five-year term beginning tomorrow. The Board expressed its deep gratitude to Interim President Kristalina Georgieva for ...

Apple Inc has cut prices of one of its latest iPhones in India by around one-fourth, sources said, as the U.S. tech giant looks to boost sales in the world’s second-biggest smartphone market following a similar move in ...

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. today announced the relocation of its China design center, one of five global hubs charged with designing the company’s vehicles, to Shanghai. Nissan Design China, previously based in Beijing, will continue its focus on ...

Barcelona winger Ousmane Dembele returned to team training on Thursday, increasing hopes that he will recover from his hamstring injury in time for next week’s Champions League trip to Manchester United. “Jasper Cillessen (also out injured) and Ousmane ...

President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja Thursday for Amman to honour an invitation by King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of Jordan to participate in the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa holding at the ...

Amazon wants to launch thousands of low Earth orbit satellites to offer internet connection across the planet. With Project Kuiper, it aims to deploy 3,236 satellites to cover areas where about 95 percent of the global population live. ...

Jiji, a fast-growing online classifieds marketplace, has acquired OLX in Nigeria and four other African countries. As part of the deal, the OLX users in Nigeria would be directed to Jiji marketplace in a transaction backed by one ...