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NjiaPay Secures $1M+ to Simplify Payments for African Businesses

May 21, 2025 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

NjiaPay, a Payments-as-a-Service provider solving the complexities of payments for African businesses, today announced the closing of an oversubscribed $1 million+ pre-seed funding round. The round was led by HAVAÍC, with participation from a number of prominent angel investors, including founders of Anyfin, Banxware, and Maxidrive. Launched in late 2024 as a spin-off from Talk360,…

Banking

New Emerging Africa leader at SAP reveals AI skills impact in Kenya, Nigeria

May 21, 2025May 21, 2025 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

NAIROBI, Kenya – May, 2025 – SAP has announced the appointment of Shiraz Khota as Managing Director for Emerging Africa. Khota, an industry veteran with 25 years’ experience in enterprise software sales, cloud solutions, and digital transformation, was previously the head of SAP SuccessFactors for the region. In his new role as Managing Director for Emerging…

AI, The Hub

Joe Ajaero fearlessly challenges adversaries to advocate for Nigerian workers’ rights

May 24, 2023June 21, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

Nigeria Labour Congress President, Joe Ajaero, asserted that he fearlessly challenges adversaries to advocate for Nigerian workers’ rights. Ajaero, who recently visited the Senior Staff Union in Colleges of Education, Nigeria (SSUCOEN) in Abuja, expressed no shame in his actions, viewing them as a measure of his effectiveness as the labor union’s leader. Since assuming…

Labour & Employment

CBN raises interest rate to 18.5% after MPC Meeting

May 24, 2023June 21, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

On Wednesday, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) implemented a hike in its benchmark lending rate from 18 percent to 18.5 percent, aiming to combat inflationary pressures. During a two-day meeting in Abuja, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the CBN, chaired by Governor Godwin Emefiele, made this decision. Additionally, the MPC opted to maintain…

Banking

FG renames Ministry of Aviation to Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace of Nigeria

May 18, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

The Federal Ministry of Aviation in Nigeria has been renamed the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace of Nigeria, according to an announcement by the country’s Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika. The change was made because aviation and aerospace have become intertwined and the country needs to be proactively setting its policies to align with future…

The Hub, Transportation

NERC receives 3.25 million complaints about estimated billing, others

May 13, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

Outrageous billings, service interruptions and illegal disconnections topped the list of over 3.25 million complaints made by consumers to the electricity distribution companies, also known as DisCos within five years. This was as 430 employees of the companies and the third parties died from 1,528 job-related accidents within the same period. According to an analysis…

Energy & Power, thTV

Fines: NBC hasn’t seen restriction order, says DG

May 13, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

The National Broadcasting Commission, [NBC] on Friday said it had yet to see the order of perpetual injunction restraining it from imposing fines on broadcast stations in the country. It, however, said it would appeal the order. The commission said the decision became necessary if found to be in conflict with previous judgements. Justice James…

Law & Order, thTV

Stop Tinubu’s swearing-in, five FCT residents urge court

May 12, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

A suit demanding an order to discontinue the swearing-in of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on May 29 has been filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja. Instituted by five residents of the Federal Capital Territory, the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/578/2023, urged the court to stop the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, any other judicial…

Law & Order, thTV

Archbishop of Canterbury fined £500 for speeding in London

May 12, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby has been convicted of speeding. He was ordered to pay £510 in total for exceeding a 20 mile per hour limit near Lambeth Palace on 2 October last year, according to Sky News. The 67-year-old was also handed three penalty points after being caught by a speed camera in…

Law & Order, thTV

BREAKING: Supreme Court affirms Ademola Adeleke Osun gov

May 9, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

The Supreme Court of Nigeria in its verdict on Tuesday, declared Ademola Adeleke as the Governor of Osun State. The Independent National Electoral Commission had declared that Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party polled 403,371 votes, to defeat then-incumbent governor Adegboyega Oyetola, of the All Progressives Congress, who got 375,027 votes. But Oyetola and the…

Law & Order, thTV

Insecurity Heightens As Kidnapped Ideato North Born Bizman Found Dead After Payment Of #10m Ransom

May 9, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

Contrary to the statements and posturing of the Imo State government and its officials that the frightening insecurity and attendant challenges in the state have been nipped in the bud, the terrifying menace has continued unabated. Residents of Akokwa, in Ideato North Local Government Area of the state are said to be presently living in…

Law & Order, thTV

EEDC restores supply to Imo as labour suspends strike

May 9, 2023May 9, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company on Tuesday resumed full operations in Imo State following the suspension of the week-long industrial action embarked on by organised labour in the state. The suspension followed an agreement on Monday between the Imo State Government, the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, for a peaceful resolution of…

Energy & Power, thTV

My Husband In Ebubeagu Custody Since March Over Land Dispute

May 6, 2023May 6, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

– Orlu Woman Laments, Petitions DSS A married woman, Mrs Okereke who hails from Ogberuru in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State, has been in pain since March, 22 when her husband, Simeon Okereke was whisked away to an unknown destination by operatives of the Imo State owned Ebubeagu Security outfit at the instance…

Community Connect, Law & Order, thTV

EEDC Gives Reason For Current Loss of Electricity Supply In Imo State

May 6, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

Enugu Electricity Distribution Company PLC EEDC, has given reason for the current loss of electricity supply in Imo State. The Head of Corporate Communications EEDC, Emeka Eze who stated this in a statement dated May, 3, 2023 said, ‘’ The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company PLC (EEDC) wishes to inform her esteemed customers in Imo State…

Energy & Power, thTV

IG redeploys 86 DCPs, 206 ACPs

May 6, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has ordered the posting of 86 Deputy Commissioners of Police and 206 Assistant Commissioners of Police to various zonal commands, state commands and police formations, across the country. The senior police officers are to deputize other Senior Commissioners of Police and other most senior officers in the discharge of…

Law & Order, thTV

UPDATED: UK-based Nigerian student escapes jail for assaulting wife

May 5, 2023May 5, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

A Nigerian student at Bangor University, North Wales, United Kingdom, John Nwadiaju, escaped jail by the whiskers after a court handed him a suspended sentence for violently attacking and abusing his wife, Kosisochukwu Echem. According to North Whales Chronicle, on Friday, the 34-year-old was sentenced to 11 months imprisonment, suspended for one year, which included…

Education, Law & Order, thTV

JUST IN: Covid no longer global health emergency, says WHO

May 5, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

The World Health Organisation has announced that COVID-19 is no longer a global public health emergency The Director General of WHO, Tedros Ghebreyesus, while speaking at a media conference on Friday, said the global health body’s international health regulations emergency committee made the decision at its 15th meeting on Thursday. “Yesterday, the Emergency Committee met…

Health, thTV

Police officers set fire on criminal hideouts in Alaba International market, Hundeyin clarifies

May 5, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

Lagos police spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, has explained what led to the fire incident at Alaba International Market in Ojo. On Friday, the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service reported that shops at the popular Alaba International Market are on Fire. The agency also reported that angry mobs prevented firefighters from carrying out their duties. But…

Law & Order, thTV

[BREAKING]: Organ trafficking: UK court sentences Ekweremadu to 10 years imprisonment

May 5, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

The United Kingdom court has sentenced former Deputy Senate President of Nigeria, Ike Ekweremadu, to nine years and eight months in prison for an organ trafficking plot. The court also sentenced his wife, Beatrice, to four years six months while the medical doctor who acted as a ‘middleman’ in the plot, Dr Obinna Obeta, was…

Headlines, Law & Order, thTV

Fire guts popular Alaba International market

May 5, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

Fire gutted some shops in the popular Alaba International Market in the Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State. It was gathered that the fire incident started on Friday morning. Director, of Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye confirmed the incident in a statement. However, she disclosed that the fire crew were confronted…

Environment, News, thTV

BREAKING: Buhari excludes Finance Ministry from TSA

May 2, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

…Appoints Minister of Power on governing council The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Tuesday, in Abuja, approved the partial exclusion of the Ministry of Finance Incorporated from the Treasury Single Account. Buhari also granted the request of the Board of MOFI to charge management and transaction fees; and the inclusion of the Minister…

Business, Law & Order, thTV

National Assembly transmits bill to extend retirement age of judicial officers

May 2, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

The National Assembly has transmitted to the president a bill seeking a uniform age of retirement for judicial officers in the country. The bill seeks to extend the retirement age of High Court justices from 65 years to 70 years. The bill according to both chambers was part of 46 constitution alteration bills transmitted to…

Law & Order, thTV

Disruption of May Day celebration: Labour bars flights to Imo State

May 2, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Tuesday, announced the resolution of the Central Working Committee, CWC, to paralyse the aviation sector in Imo State over the alleged disruption of May Day celebrations in the State. The NLC specifically notified its Lagos State Council to begin immediate mobilization of its affiliate unions in the aviation sector in…

Law & Order, thTV

Hoodlums Disrupt Imo Workers Day Celebration, As Police, DSS, Civil Defence Watch Helplessly

May 2, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

Sequel to the sponsored factionalization of the Nigeria Labour Congress NLC in Imo State, hoodlums suspected have been instigated from above, yesterday stormed the venue where Imo Workers were celebrating this years Workers day. The Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress, Imo State chapter, Comrade George Ofoegbu who disclosed this in a telephone conversation with this…

Law & Order, thTV

NLC, TUC order workers to down tools in Imo over rights violations

May 2, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

The organized labour, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress, on Tuesday directed workers in Imo State to withdraw their services across the state from Tuesday night. The PUNCH reports that the two unions said the decision followed the disruption of Monday’s Workers’ Day celebration supposedly by agents of the state government. In…

Law & Order, thTV

Abducted Imo Catholic priest regains freedom

April 30, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

A Catholic Church Priest, Rev Fr. Micheal Asomugha, who was kidnapped recently has regained his freedom from his abductors. Asomugha of the St. Paul’s Catholic church parish, Osu in Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State was kidnapped recently. One of his parishioners, Chinedu Osuji, confirmed on Sunday morning that the cleric has been…

Christianity, Law & Order, People, Religion, thTV

Seplat posts N91.1b profit in 2023 first quarter

April 30, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

Seplat Energy Plc has disclosed that its gross profit soared to N91.1 b in the first quarter (Q1) 2023, from N48.8 billion same period last year, rising by 69 per cent.The energy firm, in its unaudited result for the three months ended March 31, 2023, made available to The Guardian, also recorded a rise in…

Business, Oil & Gas, thTV

Police nab nine suspected criminals in Imo

April 30, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

The Police Command in Imo has arrested nine suspected criminals terrorising parts of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the arrest came barely two weeks after gunmen attacked and killed four policemen in a restaurant in the Ngor Okpala area of the state. In a statement made available to newsmen on…

Law & Order, People, thTV

No plans to phase out redesigned Naira notes – CBN

April 30, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says no plans to phase out the redesigned Naira notes from circulation. CBN’s Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, Isa AbdulMumin, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Sunday. The statement was a reaction to a viral news on social media that the apex bank was contemplating the…

Banking, Business, thTV

BREAKING: FG suspends fuel subsidy removal

April 27, 2023April 27, 2023 thTV Admin, Owerri No Comments

The National Economic Council, on Thursday, in Abuja, said it has agreed that petrol subsidy should “not be removed” as earlier planned for June 2023. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this to State House correspondents shortly after the valedictory Council meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo…

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