archiveDecember 15, 2017

  The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says a total of 1,317 Nigerians have voluntarily returned from Libya in the last 10 days having been stranded in the volatile country enroute Europe. The Director-General of NEMA, Alhaji Mustapha Maihajja, made the disclosure while receiving a fresh batch of 116 Nigerians...

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has described the decision to withdraw $1 billion from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) to fight Boko Haram insurgency in the North-east region as a means by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government to fund President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election in 2019. “For posterity...

A Minister of Happiness has been declared wanted over a murder link, sparking a serious manhunt over the development. The Indian Police on Wednesday revealed that they had launched a manhunt for Lal Singh Arya, the Minister of Happiness. According to Agence France Presse, AFP, this was after the state...

The Lagos State government has commended Ecobank Nigeria for renovating and furnishing the main building at the Agbala Pediatric Centre, Ikorodu as part of the bank’s corporate social responsibility effort directed at women and children. Founded in 1956, the Agbala Pediatric Centre has contributed in no small way to maternal...

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said that the value of e-payment transactions recorded by banks in third quarter of 2017 declined to N19.33 trillion from N19.78 trillion in the second quarter of the year, representing 2.3 percent decrease. The bureau also noted that the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System,...

Debt Management Office (DMO) kicked off a sensitisation roadshow in Abuja on Thursday as part of preparations towards the issuance of the first Sovereign Green Bond by the Federal Government of Nigeria. The Green Bond is being issued following Nigeria’s endorsement of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change on September...