CONTINENTAL lender the African Development Bank (AfDB) was been selected as the best issuer in the year in an online poll for coming up with the idea of a $3bn dollar-denominated Covid-19 social bond issued on March 27.

NIGERIA'S ongoing protests against police brutality has taken a dramatic twist with protesters rejecting food and drinks sent to them by the chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the National Union of the Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Musiliu Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo.

NIGERIAN online commercial platform Paystack has been purchased by US technology giant Stripe for s staggering $200m subject to regulatory approvals in a move aimed at drastically enhancing Internet transactions across Africa.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] I would dissolve all paramilitary units in the police and get the National Assembly to pass a law insisting that any such units can only be re-established after they have subjected it to proper scrutiny

[2] I would make having five o'levels the very minimum qualification for joining the Nigerian Police Force (NPF). Police constables would also be put on the same pay grade as members of our state houses of assembly

NIGERIA'S National Economic Council (NEC) has succumbed to ongoing pressure from ongoing protesters demanding the scrapping of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars) and set up panels of enquiry to investigate all cases of police brutality and extra-judicial killings.

CIVIL society groups across Nigeria have stepped up their attacks on the government for sponsoring squads of hoodlums to attack demonstrators and protestors on the streets demanding the dissolution of the police Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars).

NIGERIANS have been barred from participating in the US visa lottery programme in 2022 as part of the ongoing imposition of restrictions on the country's citizens in what is feared may be a response to growing insecurity and other threats to life and property.

NIGERIA'S Northern Governors Forum (NNGF) has rejected the total disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars) by the federal government saying that they would rather see it reformed.

NIGERIA'S inflation rate rose to 13.7% during the course of September bringing it up to its highest level since March 2018 when rates reached a record high of 13.34% mainly as a result of reduced productivity brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic.

FORMER Super Eagles winger Victor Moses could be on his way to Russian side Spartak Moscow after the club approached Chelsea about securing his services following the failure to recruit its original rightback target from rivals Tottenham Hotspurs.