Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has officially announced extension of the deadline for the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR).   The electoral umpire thus directed all Electoral Commissioners to continue the exercise pending further directives.     Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, disclosed this in a statement issued on Thursday evening.   The Commission also ...

The Senate has confirmed seven persons nominated as ministers by President Muhammadu Buhari.   They were confirmed on Wednesday following a screening at the upper chamber of the National Assembly. The exercise was presided over by Senate President Ahmed Lawan.   The development came days after President Buhari appointed the ministers and wrote to the Senate, seeking their confirmation.   ...

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. has consciously and consistently pulled great efforts in supporting the development of Nigeria owing to the astronomical growth in the youth population. The 21st century has seen the rapid advancement in technology revolutionizing the world and Nigeria is not left out. Huawei’s vision in Nigeria is to create an ICT ecosystem which will form the foundation ...

No fewer than 2,000 youths and 1,000 federal civil servants have so far benefited from the Huawei training on Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The training is aimed at producing an ICT talent ecosystem that would form the foundation for Nigeria’s digitisation plan.   “Following the MoU signed with the Office of the Secretary-General of the Federation and Huawei Technologies ...

Foreign investors are worried over continued scarcity of dollars in Nigeria even as the naira today depreciated to N615 per dollar in the parallel market today. Newsmaxng findings showed that the parallel market exchange rate rose by N10 to N615 per dollar at the close of business today from N605 per dollar on Friday. Similarly, the naira depreciated in the ...

Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), is expected to get a N2.5bn severance package from the Federal Government. Muhammad’s resignation on health grounds was announced on Monday, less than a week after the 14 Supreme Court Justices accused him of financial malfeasance and maladministration. There have been reports that he was forced to resign. Muhammadu ...

Favour Fame-Eruagbere, a staff of Sterling Bank Plc, Effurun, Delta State Branch, is currently on the run after allegedly defrauding customers of the bank of the sum of N300 million. The female bank worker was said to have approached some account owners to grant her permission to use their money for business, while she would be giving each of them ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn-in Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as the new Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), in acting capacity.   Justice Ariwoola was officially sworn by the president on Monday afternoon, following the sudden resignation of Justice Tanko Muhammad from the Judicial position.   Justice Muhammad, it was gathered, was forced to resign over the weekend, although the information in ...

Huawei Technologies Limited says its new CloudCampus solution breaks the limits of manual management of regular campus networks and enables the proliferating terminals to access the network and enjoy consistent experience. It also breaks network boundaries and ensures unified operations and maintenance across WLAN, LAN, and WAN. Campus networks are small, local networks dedicated to a set geographical area which ...

Newsmaxng reports that The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)  moved swiftly to avert a likely slide into the minority in the Senate.   Twenty two more senators elected on the platform of the party are believed to be heading out to join opposition political parties.   Should this happen, the APC would lose its majority status.   Already, the party ...