Zuckerberg’s firm reacts as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp services down

Facebook-owned services, WhatsApp and Instagram, are down on Monday, leaving some three billion online users frustrated and unable to connect all over the world. The social tools including Facebook’s own Messenger service were first reported as not being available from 04:25pm on Monday. Users visiting the social platforms owned by Silicon Valley guru Mark Zuckerberg…

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Nigeria@61: Arrest falling of Naira value, high inflation —Ondo Reps member Adefisoye tells CBN governor, others

The lawmaker representing Idanre/Ifedore federal constituencyand youngest federal legislator from southern Nigeria, Hon. Tajudeen Adefisoye has charged the economic managers of Nigeria to put on their thinking caps and save the nation from sliding into further eeconomic woes. The Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Army made this call in his 61st independence anniversary message to…

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Full Text of 61st Independence Day Address by President Buhari

INDEPENDENCE DAY ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE OCCASION OF NIGERIA’S SIXTY FIRST INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY, FRIDAY 1ST OCTOBER, 2021. Citizens of Nigeria. It is with full gratitude to God that today, we celebrate Nigeria’s sixty first Independence Anniversary. 2.​For 1st of October 1960 to happen, all…

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FG defends Paternity Leave for male workers —HoSF, endorses new working Calendar

The Federal Government has explained why it approved the right to 14-day paternity leave for male civil servants. The Head of Service of the Federation, Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, diaclosed this while briefing State House reporters after the virtual Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja,…

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Collapse of Naira: Why Nigeria heading for Recession, massive job losses

Stakeholders including the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria and the Association of Small Business Owners on Sunday lamented the worsening scarcity of forex in the country, saying they were already cutting costs as their profits were shrinking. MAN, ASBON and the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry and industrialists in separate interviews with The PUNCH said the free…

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