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The Ikeja Electric Distribution Company (IKEDC) has asked its customers to submit their identification details on or before February 20, 2026, warning that those who fail to comply risk possible service suspension. In a public notice issued on Wednesday, the electricity distribution company said the directive is in line with the Nigeria Tax Law (2025),.
Elon Musk has reignited the privacy fight around Meta-owned WhatsApp, posting on X that the messaging app “is not secure” and urging people to use X Chat instead. His comment followed fresh whistleblower-linked claims and a lawsuit that challenges WhatsApp’s long-running pitch that end-to-end encryption keeps messages private from the company itself. DON’T MISS THIS:.
Nigerian billionaire and BUA Group chairman, Abdul Samad Rabiu, says he will still pay the Super Eagles the $500,000 incentive he previously promised, even after the national team’s defeat to Morocco in the semi-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). Prior to the game, Rabiu had pledged to gift the Nigeria’s national team the.
Heineken says CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board, Dolf van den Brink will leave on May 31, 2026, ending nearly six years in the role. The brewer’s supervisory board has started a search for a successor, while Brink will stay on as an adviser for eight months from June 1. The leadership change comes.
Independent petroleum marketers say Nigeria’s petrol supply is increasingly coming from the Dangote Refinery, arguing that product availability has improved and imports have effectively paused for now. In an interview published by Nairametrics, IPMAN spokesperson Chinedu Ukadike said members have been lifting PMS from Dangote without the shortages that typically show up around peak travel.
President Bola Tinubu has lifted the six-month emergency rule imposed on Rivers State, reinstating Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy Ngozi Odu, and the State House of Assembly. The suspension takes effect from midnight, September 17, 2025. “It therefore gives me great pleasure to declare that the emergency in Rivers State of Nigeria shall end with.
Burkina Faso’s ruling junta, led by Captain Ibrahim Traoré has pulled the plug on a high-profile malaria experiment backed by U.S. billionaire Bill Gates, halting the release of genetically modified mosquitoes that were meant to outsmart one of Africa’s deadliest killers. Traoré recently announced that Target Malaria, the research consortium behind the project, must “cease.
Femi Adesina, the former special adviser on media and publicity to late ex-president Muhammadu Buhari, staunchly defended his “senior friend” and boss’ long-time public insinuation that he was a religious bigot. Adesina spoke during an interview on Channels TV on Sunday, hours after news broke that Buhari had died in a London clinic after a.
The Nigerian government has affirmed that it will not accept the President Donald Trump administration’s proposal to force a controversial asylum deal on it, which was one of the reasons Nigeria was slammed with new visa restrictions. According to multiple sources, the U.S. had proposed to ship some undocumented migrants in the US to some.
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has voiced strong doubts about the future of Nigeria’s four refineries, managed by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), saying they may never work again. The refineries in Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna, with a combined production capacity of 445,000 bpd, have gulped no less than $18 billion, but are still.