archiveAugust 2017

Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), has promised that the perpetrators of the killing in Anambra church on Sunday would never go unaprended and be brought to book. According to a press statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media & Publicity to the President, Mr. Laolu Akande, Osinbajo has...

Stock markets across the globe are set for a devastating crash as a “supervolcano” is ready to erupt, an investment expert has said. Mr. Barry James, President of the James Advantage Fund, said the global market was “upside down” and in the “latter stages” of an economic meltdown. In a...

Trading activities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange resumed on Monday on a positive note with the All-Share Index improving by 0.27 per cent. The index rose by 100. 28 points or 0.27 per cent to close at 37,525.38 against 37,425.15 achieved on Friday even as the market capitalisation recorded a...

The 2017 Cowbellpedia Secondary Schools Mathematics TV Quiz Show produced the first set of semi-finalists last weekend. Anita Alabi of Gloryland Secondary School, Igarra, Edo State and Henry Famuyiwa of Model Secondary School, Alagbaka, Akure, Ondo State triumphed over their counterparts to proceed to the semi-finals in the Junior category...

Lafarge Africa is seeking regulatory approval to merge its Nigerian operations with two of its local subsidiaries, it said in a stock exchange filing on Monday. The cement mixer said its board has asked the company to "undertake a business combination with United Cement Company of Nigeria Limited (Unicem) and...

Justice Chuka Obiozor of the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court Monday ordered the permanent forfeiture of a $37.5 million property on Banana Island, Lagos, allegedly belonging to a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke. Mr. Obiozor gave the order to the Federal Government after the Economic and...

Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State has said that the Sunday’s attack at St Phillips Catholic Church Ozubulu which claimed 12 lives on Sunday was not a terrorist attack even as he declared Monday as a day of mourning in the state. The governor stated this in a broadcast to...

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, received at the Presidential Villa, Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye, Houston, US-based Nigerian doctor who successfully led a medical team that operated on a foetus, winning US and global acclaim for the feat. According to the Acting President, Nigeria produces the best in every way, its citizens continue...

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) will hold a Policy Committee Meeting on August 21 and 22 to determine cut-off points for admission into various courses in Nigerian tertiary institutions for 2017. Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, on Sunday said he had given the Board approval to hold the...

The Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has expressed deep sadness over the massacre that occurred at St. Philip’s Catholic Church, Anambra State early Sunday morning. In a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, Saraki stated that the killing of worshippers represents the purest...