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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
March 9, 2021

EXCLUSIVE: CCB in disarray as Bola Tinubu’s case file disappears from asset declaration vault

Anti-graft officials told the Gazette they are treating the file drama more as a temporary setback for concerned agencies than a day of reckoning averted for the ruling party chieftain.

Tinubu and CCB
March 8, 2021

#IWD2021: The women who #ChoosetoChallenge

14 seats for women in the lower house out of 360 and eight out of 109 in the upper house.

Peoples Heroines
March 7, 2021

Cigarettes sparked fire at Presidential Villa: Garba Shehu

Mr. Shehu once in the past claimed rats chased the president from his office.

Garba Shehu
March 7, 2021

Supreme Court Justice Ngwuta is dead

Sylvester Ngwuta was one of the judges whose homes were raided in 2016 by the SSS. He was never found guilty of any charges.

Justice Sylvester Ngwuta
March 7, 2021

UFC 259: Nigeria’s Adesanya loses heavyweight challenge to Blachowicz

“This is definitely not a one-off, I definitely would be back. Like I said, dare to be great.”

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - MARCH 06: (L-R) Jan Blachowicz of Poland punches Israel Adesanya of Nigeria in their UFC light heavyweight championship fight during the UFC 259 event at UFC APEX on March 06, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)
March 6, 2021

Nigerian banks to pay N5 ‘subsidy’ for every $1 received from abroad: CBN

The CBN’s “Naira 4 Dollar scheme” is set to begin on March 8 and end in May.

CBN Godwin Emefiele (credit: Bloomberg)
March 6, 2021

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey set to sell first ever tweet as NFT

Published by Mr. Dorsey on March 21, 2006, the first tweet reads “just setting up my twttr.”

March 6, 2021

FG earmarks N10.6bn to transport COVID vaccines nationwide

Nigeria flagged off the roll out of the mass inoculation programme at a pomp ceremony in Abuja on Friday.

Finance minister Zainab Ahmed (Credit: Twitter)
March 5, 2021

U.S. lifts tariffs on cheese, cashmere and whisky from the UK

The U.S. has now agreed to a four-month suspension as they try to resolve the issue.

UK Trade Secretary
March 5, 2021

FG throws lavish event to launch COVID-19 vaccines in Nigeria

Neither the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 nor the NPHCDA officials, health workers present to receive the vaccine jabs, maintained social distancing.