archiveOctober 2017

Nigeria remains amongst the top ten countries at highest risk of cyber attack as the country now in number nine on the list having climbed one position from last month. This fact is according to Check Point Software Technologies Ltd August Global Threat Impact Index released at the weekend. It...

Nigerian Breweries Plc has concluded plans to hold the ninth edition of its Golden Pen Awards aimed at rewarding media excellence, on October 6, 2017, at the Zinnia Hall of Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos. The company announced that over 250 entries were received when submission closed for...

The sales of Nigeria’s crude oil to the United States increased by 32.1 per cent to $2.7 billion or 52.36 million barrels in the first half of this year as against the figure in the same period of 2016. This is according to the US Energy Information Administration, the statistical...

The management of Dangote Group has debunked a story alleging that the company will benefit ten-year tax holiday after constructing 35 kilometre Apapa to Oworonshoki highway end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Speaking at the Ikoyi head office, on Monday, Group Executive Director, Strategy, Portfolio Development and Capital Projects, Dangote Industries...

Serving General Overseer of Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Sunday advocated the setting up of Presidential Commission with a 10-year mandate as a practical step to actualise the restructuring of Nigeria, saying the commission must be allowed to commence by 2018 and conclude by 2028. According to him,...

At least 50 people have been shot dead and over 200 injured at an open-air music concert in Las Vegas. According to CNN, it is the worst mass shooting in the U.S history. Police initially said 20 people died, but the figures have been reviewed. The shooting happened as country...

Dr David Oyedepo, the presiding bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide says Nigeria will not break up in spite of its present challenges. He said this in a satellite telecast of the church’s prayer session monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos on Monday. The Bishop...

The Federal Government has granted a three-year tax relief to the newly inaugurated Pay TV operator in the country, TStv Africa, as well as tax free dividends to all investors in the company. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced this on Sunday night in Abuja at...

Remarks by the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, GCON, at the Independence Day Interdenominational Church Service at the National Christian Centre, Abuja on the 1st of October, 2017. Protocols It is a very special pleasure indeed to be here again this...

Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State on Sunday reaffirmed that; the Ijaw nation would remain unwavering in their call for the restructuring of Nigeria. According to him, restructuring woven around resource control, fiscal federalism and devolution of powers from the centre to the federating units would enthrone a fair,...