archiveMarch 2018

Nigeria Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has lauded Ike Ekweremadu’s appointment as a Professor and Senior Mentoring Scholar of E-Governance and Strategic Government Studies, by the Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America. In a statement issued on Sunday by the Special Adviser to the Senate President on...

  Rises by $3.2bn between February and March Nigeria’s external reserves were standing at $46 billion as at the close of business on Friday, March 9, 2018. Figures obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) at the weekend show that the reserves grew by about $3.2 billion between February...

The ancient town of Ede,  Osun State, South-West Nigeria, was agog over the weekend when it played host to topmost Yoruba traditional rulers and other high-profile personalities from both within and outside the country for the occasion of the 10th coronation anniversary of His Royal Majesty Oba (Dr.) Munirudeen Adesola...

  The Federal Government has congratulated Mo Abudu, Chimamanda Adichie and Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde for the honours recently bestowed on them on the global stage, describing them as iconic women in the creative industry. In a statement on Sunday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, described the three...

  By Femi Falana, SAN. In the current edition of The News magazine, Senator Shehu Sani made a disclosure which has serious implications for public accountability in Nigeria. Without mincing words the Senator blew the lid off federal legislators' salary secrecy. For the first time since May 1999, the Senator...

  No increase in excise duty on other locally excisable products President Muhammadu Buhari has approved an amendment to the excise duty rates for alcoholic beverages and tobacco with effect from Monday, 4th June, 2018. The President has also granted a grace period of 90 days (three months) to all...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Mr. Lai Mohammed, has said that naysayers had taken to social media and spending huge amounts of money to distort the situation in Nigeria. The minister stated this at a mini town hall meeting which he organised for members of staff of the Nigerian...

The MTN Foundation has donated food and household items under its Orphanage Support Initiative to Olive Blooms Orphanage Home in Lagos. The Honourable Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, handed over the goods on Friday in Lagos to the Founder of Olive Blooms Orphanage Home, Mrs. Ngozi Ken Ugochukwu. The...

Trading activities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) ended positive note on Friday with a modest growth of 0.17 per cent even as the market capitalisation rose by N27 billion to close at N15.507 trillion against N15.480 trillion on Thursday. The All-Share Index, which opened the day trading at 43,092.63...

The Nigerian Stock Exchange, in partnership with the Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative, United Nations Women, United Nations Global Compact, International Finance Corporation, the World Federation of Exchanges, WIMBIZ, and Women in ETFs, organised a symposium to celebrate International Women's Day 2018, on Thursday, March 8, 2018, at the Stock Exchange...