archiveJuly 2018

A retired Director of Mobilisation at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Anthony Ani, has cited reasons why the purported ‘Certificate of Exemption’ owned by Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, is not genuine and “wouldn’t have emanated from the NYSC”. According to Premium Times follow-up on the story...

In what seems like a bright prospect for tourism in Nigeria, the sector is expected to contribute N3.63 billion to the country’s GDP by the end of 2018. The number of international arrivals in the country and employments generated by the sector are expected to grow by 1.5 per cent...

  Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has said policemen deployed in the state for the Saturday governorship election stormed the pavilion where the Peoples Democratic Party was holding their rally and harassed him. According to The Punch, the governor, who emerged with a neck brace narrated his ordeal and...

…say it is anti-democratic, usurpation of legislative, judicial powers Unanimously on Wednesday, members of the House of Representatives at plenary shot down President Muhammad Buhari’s Executive Order. President Muhammadu Buhari had last week signed an Executive Order to improve his administration’s fight against corruption. The order recently signed is to...

    VP Osinbajo meets top Google executives in first leg of US investment road show FG, global firm working on making content cheaper, localized, accessible to Nigerians Google Artificial Intelligence Centres coming to Nigeria soon   In line with its Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), especially its strategy...

The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday rejected a motion to request details of the 30, 000 police officers deployed for the Ekiti governorship election. It would be recalled that the police on Sunday said it drafted 30, 000 of its officers to provide security in the election slated for Saturday. The...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cautioned the leadership of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) not to allow the Buhari Presidency to coerce it into covering the NYSC certificate forgery case against the minister of finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, with a purported investigation. The party said this in...

Atiku Abubakar, a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, says the Muhammadu Buhari administration is the most corrupt of the five governments that have ruled since the country's return to democracy in 1999. According to Sahara Reporters, the former Vice President made this assertion on Tuesday in Abakaliki while addressing...

Armed police officers have been reported to have been cordoned off the entrance to the Ekiti State Government house, restricting movement in and out of the complex. According to PREMIUM TIMES a police Armoured Personnel Carrier and Hilux vehicles parked at the entrance blocking the pavilion and the area leading...

The National Universities Commission (NUC) on Monday said the 75 private universities Nigeria account for less than six per cent of students’ population in the country’s university system. The Executive Secretary of the Commission, Abubakar Rasheed, disclosed this at a retreat organised for Vice Chancellors of Nigerian universities in Abuja....