archiveMay 2017

Managing Director/Chief Executive of Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim has called on the members of the public to ignore rumours making the rounds that some financial institutions are now distressed. He said the assurance has become necessary to avert further slide in confidence against banks, adding that...

The Presidency has urged Nigerians to disregard the rumour making the rounds that something unpleasant has happened to President Muhammadu Buhari. The rumour was rife Sunday night that President Muhammadu Buhari has been put on life support in London where he has gone to receive medical treatment. But, Senior Special...

Emmanuel Macron, 39, has been inaugurated as France’s president and pledged to overcome division in societies. Macron, a centrist, took over on Sunday from President Francois Hollande, the socialist whose five years in power were plagued by stubborn unemployment and attacks. Macron – France’s youngest ever president – beat his...

Skye Bank Plc has violated the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) rules concerning filing of result and accounts as it has failed to meet the deadline for2016 financial year. This time, the financial institution that promised to file in December 2016 accounts to the Exchange by Friday last week but failed...

The foreign reserves fell by $46.5 million in nine days following the rapid intervention by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in the foreign exchange (FX) market. Data from CBN’s website revealed that foreign reserves opened May 2017 at $30.9 billion to $30.86 billion as at May 11, 2017, translating into...

About 100 countries have reported a cyberattack that has infected tens of thousands of computers and especially disrupted Britain’s health system and global shipper FedEx. Cyber extortionists tricked victims into opening malicious malware attachments to spam emails that appeared to contain invoices, job offers, security warnings and other legitimate files....

...Dickson congratulates students, thanks varsity Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, has described the 21 students on state government scholarship to the prestigious Lincoln University in the United States as worthy Ambassadors and pride to the state and their families. The applause was contained in a congratulatory message by Dickson,...

Former Central Bank Governor and professor of Economics, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo has said that President Muhammedu Buhari inherited a bad economy from the previous Goodluck Jonathan’s administration on 29th May 2015 and made it worse. He made this known to newsmen at ‘Big Ideas Podium’, a public policy debate organised...

...57,000 candidates sat for the 2017 UTME Saturday Candidates participating in the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have applauded JAMB, organisers of the examination for match series put on ground in centres to ensure a hitch free examination. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that no fewer than...

A political movement under the aegis of Save Humanity Advocacy Centre (SHAC), in Jos on Saturday expressed fears over a new video allegedly promoting a Boko Haram commander, Shuaibu Moni, who is said to be one of the prisoners of the insurgent sect recently swapped for the release of the...