archiveAugust 2017

In recognition of the growing concerns around human trafficking in Africa, The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), an African founded and funded 21st century philanthropic organization committed to youth empowerment and entrepreneurship development, hosted the Director General of Nigeria’s National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Julie Okah-Donli....

...wants security agencies to place them under passive watch A pro-government group under the aegis of Coalition for Truth and Justice (CFTAJ) on Sunday alleged that promoters of the ongoing protests against the continuous absence of President Muhammadu Buhari have been paid N300 million to carry out the exercise. According...

*Over 33,000 cooks hired across the States In fulfilment of its plan to ramp up the Social Investment Programmes (SIP) this year, the Buhari administration is now close to its target of feeding three million primary school children this year under the National Homegrown School Feeding Programme, one of its...

The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has approved a grant of $1 million (N360 million) for the detailed engineering design of 20,000 barrel per day (bpd) modular refinery in Lagos. Mr Enyeribe Anyanwu, Head, Media Communications of Integrated Oil and Gas Ltd., disclosed this in a statement made available...

About 44,000 companies have so far been delisted from the database of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) while 1.5 million companies have been registered, the Economic Confidential has reported. The Registrar General of the CAC, Bello Mahmud, disclosed this in an interview with the Economic Confidential in Abuja. He said...

The Chief Press Secretary to the Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson ‎has congratulated the Publisher of The Eagle Online, Dotun Oladipo for emerging as the new‎ President of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers. ‎Oladipo a professional media practitioner was elected during the association’s election held on August 9,...

Investors on The Nigerian Stock Exchange gained N33 billion on Friday as the market All-Share Index (NSE ASI) and the Market Capitalization increased by 0.25 per cent, while the year-to-date return stood at 42.14 per cent. The AllShare Index closed at 38,198.60 against the previous close of 38,102.85 while Market...

“It is the responsibility of the Armed Forces and the responsibility of all of us who are in government to ensure that we interrogate our own activities and ensure that those activities meet up with human rights norms and basic rules of decency observed across the world.” Remarks made by...

A former Governor of Cross River State, Sen. Liyel Imoke and his successor, Gov. Ben Ayade, have been locked in a serious crisis over a purported 20 percent consultancy fee to be paid from the Paris Club Funds recently refunded to states by the Federal Government, investigations revealed on Friday...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for some hours on Monday alleged to have grilled a Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Mr. Adebayo Adelabu over the role he was said to have played on the financial allegations with former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke...