archiveAugust 2017

Britain is to halve the amount of money it gives in humanitarian aid to Nigeria over the next few years, says the international development minister. According to BBC News, UK International Development Secretary Priti Patel announced £200 million aid to Nigeria over the next four years. The aid worth £200m...

The relatively unknown Amancio Ortega, founder of Zara, has beaten Bill Gates in the number one position of the world’s richest man. This is according to Forbes latest ranking on Wednesday. Ortega currently has a $200 million edge over Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, due in part to a particularly good...

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday approved an engineering contract worth $5.792 billion for the Mambilla Hydro Electric Power Project. The council meeting which was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, awarded the contract to a Chinese civil engineering firm. Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola,...

The Nigerian Stock Exchange All-Share Index (NSE ASI) and the Market Capitalization decreased further on Wednesday making it the third time in a session this week that the market would decline even as it declined by 1.48 per cent , while the year-to-date return stood at 32.58 per cent. Investors...

Enforced disappearances are being used to instil fear into civilian population living in areas of the country wracked with conflict and insecurity, said Amnesty International as the world marks the International Day of the Disappeared on 30 August. The organisation fears that hundreds of people are being held in secret...

The recently elected executives of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) at the weekend visited Nigeria’s seat of power, Aso Rock in Abuja. The GOCOP team, led by its new President, Dotun Oladipo, was received by the Special Adviser to the President on Media, Mr. Femi Adesina, as well...

Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson ‎on Wednesday paid a condolence visit to the Abuja home of former Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido who recently lost his second daughter, Hajiya Hadiza Sule Lamido. The 38 year old Hadiza died in an Indian hospital on Saturday July 29 following a...

The management of United Bank for Africa Plc, has said that it had applied to the Financial Services Authority of the United Kingdom for a banking license in its bid to further connect Africa to the world through global financial centres, complementing its existing presence in New York and Paris....

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Wednesday called on the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to stop its baseless and fruitless efforts to justify a very unpopular policy because the Nigerian students have vowed to vehemently resist it. While reacting to a statement by JAMB's Head of...

Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State will deliver the News Express 5th Anniversary Lecture on Thursday, September 28, 2017, its management has said. A statement issued on Wednesday in Jos, Plateau State capital, by the Publisher of News Express, Isaac Umunna said that Governor Bello would speak on “National...