archiveDecember 19, 2016

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State over the weekend urged the people of the state  to draw closer to God and cultivate the habit of thanksgiving, as it was one of the avenues of attracting more blessings upon their lives. Dickson stated this at the last edition of the monthly...

Being a text of speech delivered by the National Coordinator, Coalition For Good Governance And Change Initiative and 38 other Civil Socity Organisations Okpokwu Ogenyi, held on Monday 19th December, 2016 at Agura Hotel, Abuja. Titled: Enough of Parliamentary Rascality In Nigeria, a Call for Prosecution Gentlemen of the press,...

  Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Tin-Can Island Port Command has intercepted guns and ammunition concealed in an imported used vehicle, and another sets of ammunition hidden in a container loaded with another used vehicle. The Customs Area Controller of the TICP command, Bashar Yusuf, disclosed this to newsmen in the...

The Federal Government has initiated plans to use technology as an enabler to fight smuggling and increase revenue collections. The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, who disclosed this at the commencement of the workshop, held at the Customs Command and Staff College, Gwagwalada, Abuja on Monday, said the initiative...

French judges on Monday (Dec 19) found International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde guilty of negligence for failing to challenge a 400 million euro (S$604.4  million) state arbitration payout to a business tycoon in 2008 when she was French finance minister. According to AFP report, despite the ruling, the...

Nigeria is looking for financial and legal advisers and trustee firms to organise its first Islamic bond in the domestic market, the country's Debt Management Office (DMO) said on Monday. According Reuters’ report monitored by Business247 News Online, the OPEC member, which is Africa's largest economy, is working on a...

The Bayelsa State government on Monday refuted insinuations that its indigenes on scholarship in Ghana were denied access to their hostels and stopped from writing their semester exams. A statement by Mr Jeremiah Owoupele, Senior Special Assistant to Governor Seriake Dickson on Scholarships Welfare, noted that the office had been...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday asked banks to submit bids for a "special currency auction" to clear the backlog of matured outstanding dollar obligations for selected sectors of the economy, traders said on Monday. The CBN instructed commercial lenders to submit backlog dollar demand from fuel importers,...