archiveJanuary 30, 2019

A truck loaded with 33,000 litres of petroleum product fell on Wednesday morning at Barracks Bus Stop, along the Mile 2/Badagry Expressway, Ojo, Lagos, spilling its content on the ground and triggering wildfire. A yet to be ascertained number of persons, according to unconfirmed reports died in the unfortunate incident...

One in seven Nigerians uses drugs, more than twice the global average, according to the country's first major national drug-use survey published on Tuesday. The survey, conducted by the Nigerian government, the European Union and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), said an estimated 14.4 per cent...

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has told the Federal Government of Nigerian to scrap the N-Power scheme and focus instead on employing qualified teachers. The Union said there were many teachers with the necessary qualification that were eager to be employed, who can effectively address the deficit occasioned by...

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has responded to the State of the Nation address of the PDP Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar over the suspension of the CJN, Walter Onnoghen. Tibubu’s letter below: “The PDP’s presidential candidate, former Vice President Atiku, recently...

The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) has said that for the country to achieve economic and social inclusion, government must first tackle the current sluggish economic growth in the country. NESG stressed that the nation’s economic recovery remained fragile as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate declined from 1.9...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Tuesday injected another sum of $210 million into the interbank foreign exchange market. Figures released by the CBN indicated that authorised dealers in the wholesale segment of the market received the sum of $100 million, while the small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs)...