archiveJuly 2018

Senate urges FG to raise revenue base to check unemployment The Senate on Monday urged the Federal Government to raise the country’s revenue base to check its level of unemployment. Deputy President of the Senate, Mr Ike Ekweremadu, made the call at a public hearing on “Urgent Need to Review...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to make public the names of those handling the disbursement of the $322 million repatriated Sani Abacha loot in line with his administration’s commitment to transparency in public administration. The party said President Buhari should do so to show his...

    The Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) has commenced the process of implementing a unified e-Government Procurement (e-GP) system, that will integrate with existing systems to provide a centrally and unitary collaborative government procurement platform for all public procurement at the federal level. The implementation of the e-GP system...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Sunday said that it was not aware that telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria Limited, has filed an application to it to review its plan to undertake an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in Nigeria’s capital market. The SEC, in a statement in Abuja, explained that...

Former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar and Presidential  aspirant under the platform of the People Democratic Party (PDP) has spoken extensively on how he will improve certain sectors of the country, if elected as president in the 2019 general elections. In an interaction on his Twitter handle, Atiku addressed security, power and...

    Nigerian ethnic nationalities, self-determination groups, civil society organisations and professional and youth organisations have concluded a meeting in Lagos to examine the state of the Lagos concluding thus: “clearly, the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has failed in the discharge of its primary responsibility of securing citizen's...

  ***He’s Faculty of Arts Distinguished Guest Lecturer The Governor of Bayelsa State, Henry Seriake Dickson, has taken the crusade for the restructuring of Nigeria to the academic community. The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, said in a statement on Sunday that Dickson would deliver a major lecture...

  Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson has said Nigeria needs quintessential and selfless leaders like Mallam Adamu Ciroma  to rescue the country from the shackles of injustice,  misrule and underdevelopment. A statement signed by the Governor's Chief Press Secretary, Francis Ottah Agbo, quoted Dickson as speaking on Sunday in...

  Leads roadshow to showcase growth of Nigeria’s technology & entertainment sectors Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, will be leading a public-private sector collaborative investment roadshow to the United States, where he will be speaking to global industry leaders in information technology and entertainment at the Silicon Valley in San...

    The wife of the Ondo State Governor, Mrs. Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu has been honoured with a Distinguished Community Service Award by the Oyo State Chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association at a colourful event which took place at Ibadan Civic Centre, Idi Ape. In her acceptance speech, Akeredolu expressed...