archiveFebruary 12, 2018

  The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has decried what it called indiscriminate valuation queries of invoice of imported items by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). It said the action would hinder economic growth. A Communique issued after the chamber’s council meeting and released to newsmen by Mr...

  The Federal Government on Monday reiterated its commitment to complete the ongoing construction of Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail line latest January 2019. The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, gave this assurance at on-the-spot assessment of the progress work at Ologun Eru, Ibadan, Oyo State. Amaechi, who expressed satisfaction...

A Federal High Court sitting in Wawa Cantonment, Kainji, Niger State, on Monday sentenced 35-year-old Haruna Yahaya who participated in the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, in 2014. The convict, whose left arm and left leg are crippled, was convicted for being a member of the...

FSDH Research forecasts a Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate of 3.16 per cent in 2018 and 4.09 per cent in 2019 Agriculture, Trade, and Mining & Quarrying sectors, with forecast growth rates of 4 per cent, 2 per cent and 3.2 per cent respectively, would lead to the...

Ahead of Valentine’s Day on Wednesday, the National Agency for the Control of AIDS has called on Nigerians especially youths not to engage in unprotected sex. The DG of NACA, Dr. Sani Aliyu, was quoted as saying this in a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the agency,...

Suspected Fulani herdsmen have slaughtered a policeman, plucked his two eyes as well as remove his nose in Azege, Tombo ward Logo local Government area of Benue State on Monday. According to a statement released by the Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO) Moses Yamu, a DSP said the body of...

  Transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) opened on Monday on depressed note with the market indices sliding by 0.90 per cent. The Market Capitalisation shed N136 billion or 0.90 per cent to close at N15.337 trillion as against the close of N15.476 trillion on Friday. Also, the All-Share...

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has written to remind President Muhammadu Buhari on the renaming of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE) as Adeyinka Adebayo University after Military Governor of defunct Western State, late General Robert Adeyinka Adebayo. General Adebayo died last year and was buried on May 20, 2017...

  The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),  Prince Uche Secondus has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of sponsoring various killings in the country and must be held responsible for the death of innocent Nigerians. Secondus while speaking at the headquarters of the party in Umuahia,...

Former Liberian president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has been awarded the coveted $5 million Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. Sirleaf, first ever female head of state, becomes only the fifth winner of the annual Ibrahim Prize for achievement in African leadership since its launch in 2006, as it is...