archiveNovember 24, 2017

Price gains in some heavy weight stocks like Dangote Cement ensured that the Nigerian bourse close Friday’s session in positive territory. The All-share index rose by 185bps up 180bps week-on-week; 39.04 per cent year-to-date. Dangsugar  rose by 9.11 per cent to  top the gainers chart on Friday while Nascon  which...

A Federal High Court, Lagos, has struck out a case filed by Oando Plc against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), seeking to stop the Commission from conducting a forensic audit on the company and also lift a technical suspension placed on its shares. The trial judge, Justice Mohammed Aikawa,...

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is set to increase excise duties on tobacco and other unhealthy products to increase revenue and reduce consumption of such products in the sub-region. The decision was part of the aims of the meeting of ECOWAS Financial Council of Ministers in Abuja on...

  Bayelsa Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, on Friday, restated his belief in restructuring of Nigeria saying the country's unity is negotiable. According to him, the country's unity cannot be sustained by constitutional provisions or by force. Dickson, according to a statement by his Special Adviser on Public Affairs, Daniel Alabrah,...

  I received members of the All Progressives Congress at my house in Abuja. They had come to appeal to me to join their party after my party, the Peoples Democratic Party, had become factionalized as a result of the special convention of August 31, 2013. The fractionalization of the...

  *FG plans to engage more youths in region in its Social Investment Programmes *We’re encouraged by Government’s efforts – EU The Buhari administration, in line with its New Vision for the Niger Delta to develop it, will integrate more youths in the region in its Social Investment Programmes, particularly...