archiveSeptember 12, 2017

Police in Germany on Tuesday arrested five people suspected of smuggling Nigerian men into the country through fake marriages, the German federal police said in a statement. Four hundred police officers raided 41 apartments and rooms believed to be linked to the gang in Berlin and other German cities, it...

Investors on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Tuesday traded a total of 373.49 million shares valued at N5.77 billion in 4,193 deals as against the 114.77 million shares worth N2.17 billion traded in 3,232 deals on Monday. The market capitalisation depreciated by N92 billion or 0.75 per cent to...

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Ibrahim Idris, on Tuesday, said the force would deploy 21,084 policemen to Anambra for the Nov. 28 governorship election. Idris made the disclosure at the Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room Dialogue session in Abuja. He said that 17,320 policemen would be deployed to the...

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) on Tuesday disclosed in Abuja that the Internally Generated Revenues (IGRs) of most states in Nigeria rose by 20 per cent to N820.7 billion in 2016 despite significant contractions in federation transfers to them. According to the Director General of the NGF, Mr. Asishana Bayo...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday inaugurated the N30 billion Integrated Feed Mill, Hatchery and Breeder Farm in Kaduna. Middle East Olam International Business Head, Mr. Vinod Kumar Mishra, had earlier said that when inaugurated, the multi-million dollar investment would utilise around 180,000 tonnes of corn and 75,000 tonnes of soya...

The Nigerian Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has stated, ahead of the resumption of the Senate from its annual recess that his focus since he assumed office as the presiding officer of the 8th Senate on the 9th of June 2015, has been to build an effective and efficient...

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has declared that Nigeria is ripe for restructuring, even as he said it was disheartening for some people to be agitating against it or saying that Nigerians only needed to restructure their mind and not the country. He made this apparent reference to the former...

Nigerian energy company Shoreline has signed a $300 million agreement with the local unit of Shell (RDSa.L) to develop gas infrastructure around the commercial capital, Lagos, both companies said on Monday. Shell said in June that it would place more emphasis on gas rather than oil in the West African...

Tamunokuro Braide of Graceland International School, Port Harcourt is the third contestant to secure a semi-final slot for Rivers State in the on-going 2017 Cowbellpedia Secondary Schools Mathematics TV Quiz sponsored by Cowbell, the flagship brand of Promasidor Nigeria Limited. At the sixth preliminary contest in the Junior category last...

• South-East Governors probe Army-IPOB clash The Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has called on the Federal Government to direct the military to call off its operation, code-named “Python Dance 11” in the South-east region. It described the operation as an invasion of the region aimed at intimidating the people....