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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
December 20, 2021

INEC requires N305 billion to conduct 2023 elections: Mahmood Yakubu

In 2018, the National Assembly had approved INEC’s request to expend the sum of N189 billion for the 2019 elections.

Mahmood Yakub
December 20, 2021

Amazon, Barclays partner to provide UK customers with instalment payments

Instalments by Barclays allows customers to finance purchases of £100 above on millions of products selling on Amazon.

December 20, 2021

Pro-Beijing politicians dominate Hong Kong’s elections amid low voter turnout

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam during a news conference on Monday, said she was “satisfied” with the election despite a 30.2 per cent voter turnout.

Carrie Lam
December 20, 2021

Nigeria among top 10 countries in real-time payment processing

Nigeria followed countries such as India, which retained the top spot with 25.5 billion real-time payment transactions and China with 15.7 billion deals.

NIBSS
December 19, 2021

NASA’s solar probe touches the sun

The NASA believes that the “Parker Solar Probe ‘touching the sun’ is a monumental moment for solar science and a truly remarkable feat.”

Parker Solar Probe touching the sun
December 17, 2021

Canada lifts ban on Nigeria, South Africa, others

This development follows the British government’s removal of Nigeria and the other African nations from its COVID-19 travel red list.

Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, Omicron variant
December 16, 2021

Music producer, 8 others killed in plane crash in Dominican Republic

Puerto Rican music producer Jose Angel Hernandez and eight other people aboard the flight were declared dead after the crash.

A crashed plane used to illustrate this story (Credit: CNN)
December 16, 2021

Ebola outbreak declared over in DR Congo

The Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday declared the country ebola free, after clearing out the 13th outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease in the country.

Ebola outbreak
December 16, 2021

Nigeria ranks 7th place on Africa’s Visa Openness Index report

Benin, Gambia, and Seychelles were 2021’s top performers, as all three countries offered visa-free access to all African visitors.

Jean-Guy Afrika
December 15, 2021

Marriages conducted in Lagos and Abuja registries remain valid: High Court

Some local governments had dragged the Federal Ministry of Interior to court for allegedly taking up the powers of the local governments to conduct marriages.