archiveNovember 21, 2016

A socio-political organisation and prominent political arm of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, Owo Totality, described as fake an opinion poll purportedly conducted by a Lagos-based firm which gave the Alliance for Democracy (AD) candidate, Olusola Oke, an edge over all the other candidates in the governorship...

The Senate has rejected the recommendation by the Nigerian Law Reform Commission on the review of the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Act, which will empower the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)to jail people for up to two years or fine them for 20 per cent of the amount of the foreign...

Urges board to publish unutilized admission slots The Federal Government on Monday gave approval to the demand of the board of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to enable tertiary educational institutions to set different cut-off points for universities, polytechnics and colleges of education as against the unified mark...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has no plans to amend the Foreign-Exchange Act to provide for the imprisonment of anyone who holds foreign currencies, particularly the United States dollars, for more than 30 days. A statement from the CBN on Monday said the apex bank “has nothing...

The stock market  activities  resumed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on  negative territory where it was for the whole of last week as the market  All-Share Index (NSE ASI) and the Market Capitalization decreased by 0.15 per cent, while the Year-to-Date return stood at -10.97per cent. The All Share...

With less than one week to the Ondo State governorship election, 20 political parties on Monday in Abuja demanded that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should postpone exercise because of security reasons. Rising from an emergency meeting held at the national secretariat of Labour Party (LP), the 20 parties...

The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma  Udo-Udoma  has said that the Federal Government has spent 79 per cent, that is N3.577 trillion as at September 2016 out of the full year budget of N6.06 trillion in first three quarters of 2016. He noted further that a total...

By Nkem Ndem The bustling city of Lagos is populous with the highest concentration of movie, music, television, theatre, and sports celebrities of any city in Nigeria. From film and television shoots on the streets, to star-studded events at event centres and glitzy clubs a trip to Lagos would not...

As the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) meets today and tomorrow for the last time this year, there are strong indications that body will hold the rates at their current levels. Analysts believe that the committee will most certainly hold all rates at the...

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has announced that prospective corps members can now print out their call-up letters for the 2016 Batch B Stream 1 orientation course and that the camp opens on Thursday. NYSC made this known through its official Twitter handle in the early hours of Monday;...