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Kimiebi Ebienfa, the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, disclosed in a statement on Monday that the  federal government has rescheduled the airlifting of the first batch of Nigerian citizens wanting to leave South Africa following the recent wave of xenophobic attacks against Blacks in the country. The proposed airlifting of the first batch of returnees from South Africa, which is originally scheduled for Monday (today), has been rescheduled for Wednesday, and this is due to unforeseen logistical considerations. President Bola Tinubu approved five evacuation flights, which Nigeria’s private airliner, Air Peace, will operate, he explained. ”I received confirmation from our mission in Pretoria that the screening exercise of Nigerian nationals, who have indicated interest to be evacuated back home, has been extended to Wednesday. ”So far, more than 500 persons have been screened and cleared,” Ebienfa said. (NAN) the first flight, expected to transport about 270 passengers, ...

  Airtime credit lending allows mobile phone users to borrow small amounts of airtime or data when their balance runs out, repaying typically within days—a service used by tens of millions of low-income Nigerians. It is alleged that Optasia has operated for 12 years without establishing any administrative infrastructure in Nigeria. The company employs no Nigerian staff and does not share credit data with Nigerian bureaus or other financial technology firms, creating an information asymmetry that has stifled local competition. President Bola Tinubu has directed the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) to break the 12-year monopoly of South African firm Optasia on airtime credit lending and data advance services in Nigeria, The decision, which followed a high-level briefing by the FCCPC, marks a major policy shift aimed at opening up an estimated N3 trillion annual market to Nigerian fintechs. The directive, was issued in writing late last month, effectively...

June is International Men’s Mental Health Month a time to strip away the "Tough Guy" filters and look at the raw, unvarnished reality of what it takes to survive and thrive as a man in the modern world. For the modern African man, mental health is rarely destroyed by a single catastrophic event. Instead, it is slowly eroded by what we call The Deficit Tax ,  the cumulative weight of everything that is quietly missing from his life. Society teaches men how to build, how to provide, and how to fight. It almost never teaches them what to look out for when their own internal infrastructure is collapsing. To maintain absolute psychological stability, every man must actively audit his life against these core deficits. 1. The Financial Deficit (The Pressure Cooker) We cannot talk about men’s mental health ...

 In commemoration of World Environment Day 2026, the UBA Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Group, has reinforced its commitment to environmental sustainability through a tree-planting exercise at two of Lagos’ most historic institutions — King’s College, Lagos and CMS Grammar School. The initiative marks the commencement of the Foundation’s 2026 Tree Planting for Sustainability programme, designed to promote environmental consciousness among young people and encourage climate-positive action across selected schools in Nigeria. Observed annually on 5 June and coordinated by the United Nations, World Environment Day remains the world’s leading platform for environmental awareness.

We are living in the era of the financially intellect society across Africa and the diaspora, the economic landscape has shifted dramatically. Women are scaling corporate ladders, dominating boardrooms, launching multi-million-dollar enterprises, and achieving complete financial independence.  For generations, a man’s value was anchored almost entirely to his checkbook. "Provider status" was the ultimate leverage for family respect and societal dominance. But what happens when a woman doesn't need your money?  When a woman no longer needs your wallet, the traditional, transactional basis of a relationship vanishes. Many men panic, viewing her success as a threat or a race they are losing. But here is the perspective shift, When a high achieving woman doesn't need your money, she finally has the luxury to value who you actually are.  To earn the respect and submission of a wealthy woman, you do not compete with her bank account. You provide what money cannot buy.  He...

Operations have fully resumed at the Abuja headquarters and regional offices of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC). This follows the swift suspension of a nationwide industrial action by energy sector workers that briefly threatened to paralyze the administrative engine of Africa’s largest oil producer. The strike, which commenced on June 1, was called off following intense, late-night negotiations between NUPRC management and two of the continent's most powerful energy coalitions: the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG). Inside the Discontent: More Than Just "Foreign Training" While early media murmurs suggested the dispute was a superficial row over foreign training allocations—a claim the NUPRC has vigorously dismissed as misleading—the root causes run much deeper into the structural realities of post-PIA (Petroleum Industry Act) Nige...