archive2018

  The World Bank has predicted that by 2030, about nine out of 10 extremely poor people in the world will live in sub-Saharan Africa, which includes Nigeria and others. In percentage term, this translates to 90 per cent of the population of the extremely poor people. The Bretton Woods...

  The Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation, Europe (NIDOE), has announced plans to host all the political parties’ presidential candidates in Vienna, Austria. Mr Kenneth Gbandi, the Chairman of NIDOE in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said letters of invitation had been sent to the various candidates through their political...

  Names 22 witnesses, lists 11 charges against him The immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose is already in Lagos for the beginning of his trial. Fayose is expected to be arraigned at a federal high court in Lagos on Monday by the Economic and Financial Cime Commission...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will not extend the deadline for submission of list of candidates’ names by political parties for the 2019 general elections. The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...

  In another round of intervention, the Central Bank of Nigeria, on Friday, injected over $337m into the Inter-Bank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market. The CBN also intervened to the tune of 53.44 million Chinese Yuan in the Spot and Short tenured forwards of the inter-bank foreign exchange market. The CBN...

A hearing in the court case between MTN and Nigeria’s central bank in a dispute over the alleged transfer of $8.1 billion of funds by the telecoms firm, has been set for Oct. 30, a lawyer for MTN told Reuters on Friday. MTN has denied claims that it depleted Nigeria’s...

  As Akinfeleye tasks GOCOP to help arrest menace of fake news Chief Tola Adeniyi, former Managing Director of Daily Times has challenged online publishers in Nigeria to help Nigerians to rediscover their voice in view of the ineffectiveness of labour unions among others who used to champion the cause...

  By Prof. Chidi Anselm Odinkalu It is a pleasurable privilege to be able to join the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) for its second annual conference. The existence of the Guild bears testimony to the profound change that the digital revolution has brought to the structure and scope...

  “I want to say on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari, on whose instructions I am here, that we will stand by you and make sure we provide what you need.” REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PROF YEMI OSINBAJO, SAN, GCON, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, AT ST....

Former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, has identified electoral violence, hate speech and political innumeracy as some of the major threats capable of undermining the 2019 general elections. Odinkalu, a Senior Manager, Africa Programme, Open Society Justice Initiative as well as Chair, Advisory Board,...