archiveMarch 16, 2018

  The Senate has been advised to ignore the reasons given by President Muhammadu Buhari for not signing the Electoral Act 2010 Amendment Bill passed by the National Assembly. It was learned on Thursday that based on the advice from the Senate’s Legal Department, the upper chamber of the National...

    Abdulqadir Bello has been appointed as the new chairman of the Board of Directors of Transcorp Hotels Plc. This follows the resignation of a former non-executive director and chairman, O’tega Emerhor. This was disclosed in a press statement signed by Transcorp Hotels’ Group Company Secretary, Helen Iwuchukwu, on...

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has announced the appointment of 60 judicial officers in 25 states of the federation. Acccording to the press statement  by NJC’s Director of Information, Soji Oye:  “The under-listed are the names of the Sixty (60) successful Judicial Officers recommended by the National Judicial Council at...

  The General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye has expressed displeasure with the killings of people by Fulani herdsmen in Benue State and other parts of the country. The man of God alongside his wife, Folu condoled with Governor Samuel Ortom and prayed for the government...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) says it will support Nigeria’s Power Sector Recovery Programme (PSRP) in three areas of operational and technical intervention, governance issues and policy based support. The bank disclosed this in Abuja on Friday in a statement signed by Fatimah Alkali, Senior Communications Officer in Nigeria Country...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday approved the constitution of the membership of the National Food Security Council. The Council, to be chaired by the President, will be inaugurated on Monday. A statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President,  Garba Shehu, said Governors of...

      The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC ) says it has uncovered an illegal voter registration centre in Offa, Kwara State. INEC Administrative Secretary in Kwara, Mr Paul Atser, made this known in a statement in Ilorin on Friday. “It has come to the notice of Independent National...

  The Nigerian Stock Exchange has commemorated the 2018 Global Money Week themed, Money Matters Matter, between Monday, March 12, 2018 and Friday, March 16, 2018, with a series of educational programs aimed at teaching children and youths about the importance of financial literacy. The week-long event, organized in collaboration...

A recent report on the Nigerian Mobile Sector by Africa’s leading e-commerce company Jumia, has revealed an 11 per cent increase in the number of Nigerians who visited the Jumia Website via their mobile phones – 79 per cent in 2017 versus 71 per cent while those who used their...

  …Finance Ministry not signatory to the PPAs The Honourable Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has rubbished media reports on the purported cancellation of the Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) signed by the Federal Government with Project Developers in the power sector. The Minister states that the Federal Government has...