The CBN has started the registration of “Other Financial Institutions’’ (OFIs) on its Credit Risk Management System (CRIMS) to improve credit risk management. “Other Financial Institutions’’...
File photo of the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar. The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) on Monday night announced the sighting of...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday welcomed the beginning of Muslims’ holy month of Ramadan, which marks the commencement of 30 days of fasting. In a message...
President Patrice Talon is expected to win a second term in office as group of opposition parties called for a boycott. Vote counting began in Benin...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State says it has begun a massive drive for new members in the state. Chairman of the party in...
Judiciary activities in Akwa Ibom State have been grounded following the indefinite strike action by members of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN on Tuesday....
A combination of photos showing the Kogi State Commissioner for Health, Haruna Saka, and other government officials at the flag-off of the COVID-19 vaccination exercise in...
Activities were paralysed at law courts in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital on Tuesday, as the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, joined its counterparts across...
The federal government has invited the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to an urgent meeting. Bem Goong, Director Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of...
The Osun Security Network Agency, Codename Amotekun is set to commence recruitment of officers into the outfit. The board Secretary, Barr Hassan Agbelekale, on Monday...
The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, is investigating circumstances that led to some dead fish washed ashore at the Osu beach in the Greater Accra Region. The...
By Muftau Ogunyemi On Thursday April 1, Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State begins a 15-day work leave, as the first payment of his 2021 annual...
The National Inter-Faith Religious Organizations for Peace (NIFROP) is appalled by the anti-vaccine stance of the founder of Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, who has issued...
The Ogun State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology is set to employ casual teachers, who are to work as interns for a period of two...
Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State on Monday warned the newly appointed Head of Civil Service and 14 Permanent Secretaries in the state not to engage...
In a bid to eradicate Female Genital Mutilation, a surveillance team has been set up in various communities across Ekiti State to checkmate the old practice...
Polls open in two eastern states seen as critical for Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party. Voting has begun in Assam and West Bengal in state elections that...
The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, in Kwara State, has intensified efforts towards curtailing the sale of gas products by unlicensed retailers in the State. The...
ASR Africa Initiative – the brainchild of Abdul Samad Rabiu, Founder and Executive Chairman of BUA Group has provided a grant of One (1) billion Naira...
Olympics Rings The official countdown to the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games has begun. On Thursday, the first group of runners carried the Olympic torch through...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 19, 2020, Greek actress Xanthi Georgiou dressed as an ancient Greek high priestess holds the Olympic torch during...
The Oyo State Government on Wednesday joined other states across Nigeria to begin the COVID-19 vaccination exercise. The state flagged off the exercise in Ibadan with...
Hundreds of students from tertiary institutions owned by the Oyo State government, on Tuesday, stormed the State Secretariat to protest what they described as poor state...
Students of Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), Ijagun, Ogun State, have trooped out in their numbers to kick against a newly introduced medical fee of...
Followers of Oduduwa Republic agitator and renowed political thug, Chief Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho have stormed Lagos community, Agege to canvass support and...
The leadership of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is embarking on a nationwide tour of the party. According to the NPP, it is to galvanize...
The National Principal’s Cup zonal finals gets under way in the six geo political zones from today till Monday March 22nd to determine the teams that...
Anthony Joshua is training for “a whole host of techniques and tactics” that Tyson Fury may use, revealed trainer Joby Clayton. Joshua and Fury have signed...
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi The Ekiti State Government on Monday began compensation of victims of police brutality and abuses of human rights as an...
Buckingham Palace has hired an external law firm to investigate claims that Meghan Markle bullied royal staff. British media in a report published earlier this month...
Seoul, South Korea – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will make their first overseas trip on Monday as they visit...
Enugu State Government alongside Ebonyi and Anambra states, on Thursday, took delivery of the first batch of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from the National Primary Health Care...
The federal government has begun the selection process for applicants who indicated interest to be employed under the N-Power Batch ‘C’ program. The Permanent Secretary of...
Lagos State Government said it has commenced a two-week decontamination of 26 major poultry markets in the State against the resurgence of avian influenza (bird...
Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, takes his first COVID-19 vaccine jab at the Government House in Umuahia on March 11, 2021. Abia State Governor, Okezie...
Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin at the beginning of the debate on the 2021 message on the State of the Nation on Wednesday, cautioned members not...
The probe of the tenure of Babatunde Fowler as Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), has commenced. In 2019, GCFRNG reported President Muhammadu Buhari...
Osun has commenced the vaccination of its frontline health workers against the COVID-19 pandemic. This followed the receipt of 64,240 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines...
Jury selection in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death has begun with the first potential juror excused after she...
As part of efforts to ensure that all school-aged children benefit from the Fayemi led administration’s free and compulsory education up to Junior Secondary School class...
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has begun an exercise to validate all properties within its jurisdiction as part of efforts to update data and enhance revenue...
The Federal Ministry of Education has disclosed that it has started the relocation of pupils from Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states to other states as...
The Delta State Electoral Commission, DSIEC, has commenced the distribution of electoral materials to the various Units and Wards in Warri South Local Government Area of...
A combination of photos showing the four health workers who took the COVID-19 jab at the National Hospital in Abuja on March 5, 2021. GCFRNG/ Sodiq...
The Nasarawa State House of Assembly has announced a probe of missing teachers’ salaries. Chairman of the House Committee on Education, Daniel Ogazi, disclosed this in...
Ghana on Tuesday kickstarted its drive to vaccinate at least 20 million citizens against the deadly coronavirus – to pave way for the full reopening of...
With audio chat rooms being the flavour of the season (cue: success of Clubhouse), Twitter is losing no time in pushing its own similar offering Twitter...
The world’s first and only national scale drone delivery service, Zipline, today began the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to selected health facilities within its service area...
The world’s first and only national-scale drone delivery service, Zipline, today Tuesday, 2 March 2021 began the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to selected health facilities within...
COVID-19 vaccination begins today in 43 districts in three regions of the country. The regions are: Greater Accra-25 districts, Ashanti-16 districts and Central-two districts. This will...
Ghana will begin the mass vaccination against the coronavirus today. This will mark the deployment of the 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines which were manufactured by...
Johnson & Johnson vaccine vials against the COVID-19 coronavirus are seen at the Klerksdorp Hospital as South Africa proceeds with its inoculation campaign on February 18,...
Members of the Lagos State Task Force, demolishing shanties and other structures built. The Lagos State Government has commenced the demolition of shanties and other...
Volunteers in southern Lebanon begin removing tar from beaches after an oil spill that could endanger marine life. Lebanese began cleaning beaches on Saturday after an...
The former Governor of Borno State and a chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Ali Modu Sheriff, has begun meetings with state governors over his national...
Samsung has started mass-production of a power-efficient solid state drive (SSD) for data centres, the PM9A3. The new SSD has the industry’s top class power efficiency...
The Abia State Government says it has commenced the payment of salary arrears to teachers in the state. The states Honorable Commissioner for Information, Chief...
Senate Chief Whip and Former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has reacted to the military plane crash in Abuja on Sunday. GCFRNG had...
France is beginning the process of shutting down the far-right Generation Identity (GI) group, a move that comes after Al Jazeera’s undercover investigation exposed the group’s...
Millions expected to stop work and join protests calling for restoration of democracy three weeks after generals seized power in a coup. Myanmar began a nationwide...
A healthcare worker administers to a woman a dose of Russia’s Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac) vaccine against the Covid-19, at a vaccination centre in Saint Petersburg, on...
Up to four million Australians are expected to receive a COVID-19 vaccine voluntarily by March. Australia has kicked off its COVID-19 vaccination programme a day ahead...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has promoted the Chairman-designate, Abdulrasheed Ahmed Bawa and 88 others. They were moved from Grade Level 13 Principal Detective...
The Governor Yahaya Bello to President Yahaya Bello (GYB2PYB), youth support group, has commenced the sensitisation and mobilisation of youths, women and people living with disabilities,...
The federal government has commenced the reform of the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN). Minister of Defence, Bashir Magashi inaugurated a...
Mexico began vaccinating senior citizens in more than 300 municipalities across the country on Monday, after receiving approximately 870,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The...
Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson attends a virtual press conference inside 10 Downing Street in central London on December 19, 2020. TOBY MELVILLE / POOL /...
The Nigerian Army has announced the commencement of online registration into 81 Regular Recruit Intake for both Trades/Non Tradesmen and women. A statement by the...
The Nigerian Army has announced the commencement of online registration into 81 Regular Recruit Intake for both Trades/Non Tradesmen and women. A statement by the Nigerian...
Waste management company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL), has begun the free distribution of bins under its ‘One Million-Waste Bin’ project in five metropolitan, municipal and district...
The police in Lagos have said they will investigate the molestation and harrassment of peaceful protesters arrested on Saturday at Lekki Tollgate. This was contained in...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has commenced investigations on governor David Umahi-led government over N6.7billion naira belonging to the 13 local Government Area of Ebonyi...
A file photo of Amotukn corps during an operation recently. Worried by the worsening herdsmen crisis in parts of the state, the Ogun State Government...
The Paramount Chief of Nungua Traditional Council, Oboade Notse King Prof. Odaifio Welentsi III, has cut the sod for the commencement of construction of the Nungua...
Following the reported cases of killing and kidnapping in Yewa by suspected Fulani herdsmen, the Ogun State Government has commenced the recruitment of officers for the...
Following President Muhammadu Buhari’s request to the Nigerian Senate seeking confirmation of the newly appointed ex-Service Chiefs, Senate on Wednesday commenced the process. The request was...
Trump’s January 2 call to Georgia state secretary is a matter of ‘high priority’ for Fulton county prosecutors. Prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia, are investigating Donald...
Kwaku Agyeman-Manu and Albert Kan-Dapaah, the ministers designate for Health and National Security are set to face Parliament’s Appointments Committee today, Wednesday, February 10, 2021, to...
Osun State on Tuesday, reported 120 new infections in its daily count, which is its highest ever number of daily confirmed cases. GCFRNG reports that this...
By Taofik Salako, Deputy Group Business Editor Nigeria’s apex capital market regulator, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has directed non-custodian firms holding securities for their actual...
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, on Friday, said that preliminary works have begun on the planned Iseyin-Ogbomoso road. The governor, who stated this in Iseyin,...
The Ebonyi State Government, on Thursday, said it has constituted a judicial commission of inquiry into the recent Effium, Ezza-Effium communal crisis. Recall that the recent...
File Image: SSANU, FUTA Chapter Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of the Universities and Allied Institutions...
Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has commissioned five healthcare centres in Maiduguri metropolis and flagged off the complete overhaul of the dilapidated Maiduguri-Bama highway. According...
The inter-ministerial committee on the disposal of assets forfeited to the federal government, has commenced the process of selling final forfeited assets in 25 locations across...
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered full enforcement of the COVID-19 Health Protection Regulations. The executive order was signed into law by President Muhammadu...
A file photo of the Rugby World Cup. The process to determine future hosts of the men and women’s Rugby World Cups have officially kicked...
Obuasi-based Non-Governmental Organization, Addapath wellness has donated 5 boxes of carbolic soap each of which contains 72 pieces of soap at the cost of GH₵1500 to...
Telecoms service provider, Globacom, announced on Friday the commencement of National Identification Number (NIN) registration in its retail outlets across the country. Globacom commenced the enrolment...
Experts are in Wuhan, where the virus first emerged, to piece together what happened in the initial outbreak. A team of experts from the World Health...
The General Manager of Adapalm Industry Nigeria Ltd in Imo State, Dr. Goddy Esom Obodo, has clarified the recent explosion at the company which was rumoured...
The registration of herdsmen in Ondo state began on Monday, with the aim of ejecting unregistered herders from the state’s forest reserves. Alhaji Jimoh Dojumo, Special...
Graeme Robertson / AFP / POOL Egypt began its Covid-19 immunisation program Sunday, becoming one of the first countries in Africa to vaccinate its citizens,...
The four-day state funeral of former President Jerry John Rawlings begins today, Sunday, January 24, 2021. He will be laid-in-state from today to January 26, 2021,...
Brazil has begun rolling out two million ready-to-use AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines made in India, the state-funded Fiocruz Institute said on Saturday, as protesters rallied in several...
The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has opened recruitment for 2021. Applications will be received until February 5, 2021, at gafrecruitment.com. The Ghana Armed Forces is the...
The US Senate has finally reached a decision on the commencement of impeachment trial of ex-President, Donald Trump. The opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial...
On Wednesday , January 20, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) opened its case in the ongoing trial of Babachir Lawal, a former Secretary to...
The Supreme Court will later this morning, Tuesday, January 19, 2021, conduct a pre-trial conference for parties in the 2020 election petition case. The pre-trial conference...
By Lucas Ajanaku The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has started probing data depletion in the telecoms industry in line with its mandate of consumer protection. Its...
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