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President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the Super Eagles of Nigeria on their qualification for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations following the 1-1 draw against the Bafana Bafana of South Africa in Johannesburg on Saturday. The president in a statement by his spokesperson, Femi Adesina, said he joins millions of...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that campaigns for presidential and National Assembly elections will begin on Sunday, November 18, 2018. This was disclosed in a statement by the commission on Saturday. According to INEC, campaign for governorship and state Houses of Assembly will commence on December 1,...

A turnover of 1.285 billion shares worth N11.539 billion in 13,245 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Exchange in contrast to a total of 1.079 billion shares valued at N18.196 billion that exchanged hands last week in 14,372 deals. The Financial Services Industry (measured...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) , on Saturday, rescheduled the November 19 meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to November 21 and 22 to accommodate the Eid-El Maulud celebrations. This is according to a press statement by the Director, Corporate Communications, CBN, Mr Isaac Okorafor. The date...

  Nigeria, Uganda and Morocco qualified for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations Saturday while Libya scored eight goals to keep alive hopes of also featuring at the finals. Nigeria drew 1-1 with South Africa in Soweto, Uganda edged Cape Verde 1-0 in Kampala and Morocco went through after rivals...

The Federal Government of Nigerian on Wednesday announced the issuance of $2.86 billion aggregate triple bond series under its Global Medium Term Note Programme. This was contained in a press statement by the Ministry of Finance on Wednesday night which explained that the Notes comprise a $1.18 billion seven-year series,...

The Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has stressed his commitment is to fix the Nigerian’s ailing economy. Abubarka said this on Wednesday during a meeting with Igbo leaders in Enugu. He said that he was worried about developments in...

  The Bureau of Public Enterprises has signed on KPMG as Transaction Adviser for the privatisation of NIPOST. The Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Mr. Alex A. Okoh said the restructuring and modernization aimed at making NIPOST “one of the best integrated postal service providers in...

  The Dorados manager believes Manchester United's boss is the best in the world, even above his cross-town rival Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho is a better manager than Manchester City counterpart Pep Guardiola, according to Diego Maradona, GOAL reported. Guardiola led City to the Premier League title last season...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed that 487 business owners have benefited N407 billion from its Commercial Agriculture Credit Scheme (CACS) between 2009 and 2016. The agriculture credit scheme that was introduced in 2009 is a sub-component of the Federal Government’s Commercial Agriculture Development Programme (CADP) financed from...