Zimbabwe has authorized a mass slaughter of elephants to feed citizens left hungry by its worst drought in decades. With nearly half of the country’s population facing the risk of acute hunger, “we are targeting to cull 200 elephants,” Tinashe Farawo, a spokesperson for the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority, told CNN on Monday. The…
Taylor Swift fans, alongside politicians and the White House, have expressed their outrage over AI-generated fake pornographic images of the pop superstar that recently went viral on various social media platforms. According to reports, one such image on X, formerly known as Twitter, was viewed over 47 million times before its removal on Thursday, after…
Moniepoint Microfinance Bank has expanded its services into the personal banking segment. This strategic move aims to expedite and improve access to diverse, affordable, and tailored financial services that cater to the distinctive needs and circumstances of individuals, as well as small and medium-sized businesses across Nigeria. Buoyed by its experience and emergence as the…
As part of measures to cushion the effect of the hardship being experienced over the removal of fuel subsidy, Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara state today, June 5, directed that the workdays of public workers be reduced from five days to three days per week. The State Head of Service, Mrs Susan Modupe Oluwole,…
The government said the order was necessary following the proliferation of substandard private schools in the state. The Enugu State Government has directed the immediate closure of all private schools at basic and post-basic levels operating in the state without the written approval of the state’s ministry of education. The State…
This is coming amidst the country’s rising foreign debts and ailing economy; also, the Nigerian university lecturers earlier today extended the six months’ industrial action they embarked since February 14, to force the government to implement the FG/ASUU 2009 Agreement which stipulated how the nation’s university education should be funded. The President Muhammadu Buhari led-Federal…
Bauchi State Government has declared Monday, June 27 as a public holiday to enable eligible voters who are yet to register for their Permanent Voters Card to participate in the ongoing registration exercise. In a statement released by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Governor, Mukhtar Gidado, it was stated that the…
Government of Edo State has increased minimum wage to N40,000 every month. Truetells Nigeria reports that Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo State, has increased the minimum wage of workers in the state to N40,000. Obaseki made the announcement when hundreds of pensioners in the state, in black attire, with placards bearing various inscriptions, on…
Kwara State’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Salman Jawondo (SAN) has raised an alarm of government officials siphoning under cover of paying ransoms. Jawondo who spoke at the commencement of the 2021/2022 legal year and valedictory court session for retiring judges in Ilorin, stated that it is now time “to reconsider/review the obsolete ‘presumption…
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, says Nigerians ought to be thankful that the spate of attacks by Boko Haram has dropped. Reacting to the presidential spokesman’s comment on channels tv, the BBOG co-convener listed things that have gone wrong since 2015 which was the beginning of the…
