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HILLARY ESSIEN

Hillary Essien is a reporter with Peoples Gazette focusing on special reports and critical national news. She is a lawyer with 2 years of writing and reporting. Prior to working with The Gazette, Hillary served as an administrative assistant at a non-profit organisation focused on food security for children of low income households.She is on Twitter @Hillary_essien
July 30, 2021

Abba Kyari is a crime-buster, jealous FBI out to tarnish his image: Femi Fani-Kayode

Former aviation minister Femi Fani-Kayode says the FBI is jealous of deputy police commissioner Abba Kyari and is out to tarnish the Nigerian crime buster’s image.

Femi Fani-Kayode and Abba Kyari
July 29, 2021

How police chief Abba Kyari flew to Dubai to spend good time with Hushpuppi: FBI

Ramon Abbas pleaded guilty to multimillion-dollar fraud this week as part of a bargain with American prosecutors in Central California.

Ramon 'Hushpuppi' Abbas and Abba Kyari
July 28, 2021

Nationwide outage as national grid collapses again

Electricity distribution companies have been messaging their customers to explain the cause of extended power outage as collapse of power grid.

Lantern light and Powergrid used to illustrate the story
July 28, 2021

Business Summit: U.S. commits $1 billion to Africa

These new programs slated for Africa include proposed compacts with Lesotho, Malawi, and Tunisia.

July 28, 2021

Dollar rockets to N522 as CBN controversial policy kicks in

Speculators say the current rates would continue to change over the course of the week.

Godwin Emefiele
July 27, 2021

Start accepting weekly, monthly payments, Fashola begs Nigerian landlords

Mr Fashola urged Nigerian landlords to consider accepting rents weekly, monthly or half-yearly to leases the economic burden of their tenants.

Babatunde Fashola
July 27, 2021

CBN bans sale of forex to BDCs, suspends issuance of licence to money changers

The announcement comes as the bank intensifies efforts to mitigate further decline of the country’s economy and the national currency.

Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN
July 27, 2021
Arunma Oteh
July 26, 2021

Amazon crypto announcement sends Bitcoin pumping

Bitcoin rose from $29,000 to about $40,000 per coin in reaction to the news, its largest growth seen all month, other coins also gained considerably.

Cryptocurrencies used to illustrate the story
July 26, 2021

While other leaders join online, Buhari heads to London for virtual conference

According to the organisers, only Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta will be hosting the event live with Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and NIgerian President Muhammadu Buhari