archiveMay 2018

Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, set aside the 180 days suspension of Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin by the House of Representatives in 2016. Jibrin who was a former Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, was on September 28, 2016 suspended by the House for...

  A former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and presidential aspirant, Dr. Kingsley Moghalu, Thursday joined the Young Progressive Party (YPP) with a promise to float N1 trillion fund for industrial revolution in the country if elected. Moghalu, who lamented the monumental setback the country has...

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has released a full list of approved post-graduate awarding institutions in Nigeria. A bulletin from the office of the Executive Secretary dated May 14 contains the list of federal, state and private universities currently allowed to issue such certificates to students in Nigeria. “The commission...

Even as the Nigerian economy is struggling to maintain stability after managing a recovery last year from one of the worst recessions in its history, Nigeria appears to be sitting on a tinderbox that could wipe off a sizeable chunk of its foreign reserves, derail the 2018 budget and plunge...

Nigeria’s military has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity including torture, rape and killing civilians during its fight against Islamist insurgency Boko Haram, human rights group Amnesty International said on Thursday. The crimes were perpetrated for years and have continued despite a presidential inquiry established last August whose findings...

Africa’s telecommunication giant MTN is said to start selling about a third of its Ghanaian unit worth $754 million representing 35 percent of the $2 billion next week in an Initial Public Offering (IPO). This will be 10 times larger than the West African nations previous biggest-ever share sale, according...

  The National Tourism Transport Summit and Expo has awarded Transcorp Hotels Plc with three awards of excellence, including the Outstanding MICE hotel in Nigeria (Transcorp Hilton); Outstanding international city hotel (Transcorp Hilton) and the outstanding leadership in hospitality operations and management qualities award given to MD/CEO, Transcorp, Mr. valentine...

The African Development Bank has said that Nigeria’s industrial value dropped by 41 per cent between 2012 and this year. Nigeria’s industrial production fallen by 41% - AfDB The African Development Bank has said that Nigeria’s industrial value dropped by 41 per cent between 2012 and this year. The President,...

Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc has emerged winner of the Gold Prize at the 2017 edition of Deutsche Bank Awards for Excellence in Cash Management and Trade Finance in Nigeria. This is the second time the bank is being awarded as the top performer in this category. The category tagged Straight-Through...

  *Over 80,000 cooks engaged in 45,394 schools   Following the achievement of its target of 5.5 million pupils being fed free daily under the programme in 2017, the Buhari administration’s National Home-grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) now feeds 8,260,984 pupils in 45,394 public primary schools across 24 states. The...