archiveDecember 20, 2018

  Proceedings in the Nigerian equities market turned positive on Thursday as the benchmark index notched higher by 0.70 per cent to 30,822.33 points, following the late interest in DANGCEM. Against the foregoing, the Month-to-Date and Year-to-Date losses tapered to 0.23% and 19.46%, respectively. On sectoral performance, losses in the...

2019 budget hopeless, says Saraki Senate President, Bukola Saraki has predicted that President Muhammadu Buhari will not attend the presidential debate billed to hold on January 19, 2019. The President of the Senate said this in Abuja on Thursday where the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democracy Party (PDP), Alhaji...

Oil prices fell more than four per cent on Thursday, hitting their lowest in more than a year on worries about oversupply and the outlook for energy demand as a U.S. interest rate rise knocked stock markets. Equities dropped worldwide after the U.S. Federal Reserve raised rates and maintained most...

  There’s nothing illegal about it –Keyamo   The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria and the Fertilisers Producers and Suppliers Association of Nigeria have donated N1.7bn towards the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari. The farmers made the donation during a gala night organised by beneficiaries of the government’s Anchor...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the revelation of furtive depletion and siphoning of $1.68 billion from the Excess Crude Account (ECA), further showed that President Muhammadu Buhari presides over a corrupt government that is bent on draining the treasury and foisting more suffering on the people. The party...

  The presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, says she will drastically reduce unemployment in the country if she emerges president. Ezekwesile gave the assurance in a statement issued by her Hope’19 Campaign Organisation on Thursday in Lagos. Her assurance was in reaction...

The organised labour on Thursday said that the Federal Government has before or on Dec. 31 to send the tripartite committee report on N30,000 minimum wage to the National Assembly. The three labour centres, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the United Labour Congress (ULC) took...

  Sale of forms start Jan 10, bans 50 CBT centres Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede , on Thursday, in Lagos, announced the date of sales of UTME forms and month for the examinations. Oloyede who debunked claims that JAMB had stated sales of 2019...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says the lingering strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) will have serious impact on preparations for the conduct of the 2019 general elections. Mr Festus Okoye, Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee of INEC, made this known in Abuja at a one-day...

      Civil society groups in Lagos State have endorsed the gubernatorial aspiration of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, for the 2019 governorship election in Lagos State. According to a press statement from BOS Media, Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR),...