archiveSeptember 23, 2016

In order to effectively confront the humanitarian challenges in the North-East, President Muhammadu Buhari has established an inter-ministerial task force to coordinate the response and work with humanitarian agencies to support the governments and other structures in the affected states in the region. According to the Senior Special Assistant to...

The United States announced today more than $41 million in additional humanitarian assistance to people affected by the ongoing conflict and severe food insecurity in Nigeria and throughout the Lake Chad Basin region, where more than 6 million people need emergency food assistance, and 2.6 million people are displaced. According...

  Seeks support of Nigerian professionals abroad President Muhammadu Buhari has explained to Nigerian professionals in America how and why the Nigeria economy got into trouble. The professionals, including top flight aeronautics engineers, physicians, I.T experts, a Judge, a top policewoman, entrepreneurs, an Import Specialist at Customs and Border Protection,...

The interbank lending rate eased to around 15 per cent on Friday, down from nearly 40 per cent for overnight lending a week ago, as the disbursal of August budget allocations to government agencies boosted market liquidity. According to Reuters report monitored by Business247 News Online, overall, the market had...

Trading in equities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) closed on a positive note on Friday as investors gained N28 billion. The market capitalisation closed at N9.703 trillion from N9.675 trillion on Thursday. NSE All Share Index (NSE ASI) recovered from previous trading session’s relapse with a growth of 0.29...

Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), has said that Federal Government should notsign the West Africa-EU Economic Partnership Agreement until the country’s infrastructure and productive capacity has improved such that exports would benefit from the agreement and output from the sensitive sectors would be able...

A day after securing victory at the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal over his rival, Timipre Sylva as winner of the last governorship election, Bayelsa State governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, has been blessed with quadruplets. The season of celebrations continues as his wife, Dr. Rachael Dickson was delivered...

Africa is a continent where cooking is portrayed to be a highly specialized area of expertise which was (and still is) well handled by mothers and grandmothers. Growing up in a typical African (Nigerian) household, “African food” is all I know (and by “know”, I mean can compete for). Talk...

South Africa's MTN denied it paid a bribe to Nigerian officials to reduce its fine to 330 billion naira ($1.05 billion) as part of settling a dispute over disconnecting unregistered SIM cards in the West African country. MTN said in a statement on Friday that there had been allegations that...

A socio-political organisation, Bayelsa Elders Forum, has congratulated the state governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, over his victory at the Court of Appeal. The BEF in a statement by its President, Chief Ebi Johnson, hailed the Court of Appeal for safeguarding democracy in the state, but however, berated the candidate of...