archiveMarch 11, 2019

  Bearish sentiments in the Nigerian equities market were sustained on Monday trading activities as the benchmark index declined by 0.90 per cent to 31,636.66 points, following sell off across large cap Banking & Consumer Goods stocks. Thus, the Month-to-Date return (-0.26%) slipped into the negative region, while the Year-to-Date...

Following the growing tension that characterised the delay in the collation and declaration of last Saturday’s governorship election result in the Taraba State, Governor Darius Ishaku on Monday imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on Jalingo, the state capital. This was contained in a press statement issued in Jalingo and signed by...

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has issued a second interim report on the March 9 governorship elections in the country. In a statement by the chairperson of the NBA Election Working Group, Afam Asigwe, the association lamented “the high rate of vote buying, voter intimidation and violence it observed in...

Says around 600 people died in election-related violence Nigeria’s elections need serious reform after being marred by violence, systemic failings and low turnout, the European Union observer mission said on Monday. The EU commented after elections last Saturday for governors in 29 of 36 states, and two weeks after a...

  Over 100,000 aggrieved corps members who served as ad-hoc staff in the recently conducted general elections have dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court, over unpaid N7 billion allowances. The case is currently before a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Gwagwalada. According to the aggrieved corps...

The Centre for Law Enforcement and Education, (CLEEN) Foundation is out with detailed report on the ongoing Nigerian election stating that many Nigerians were killed in electoral violence during Saturday’s governorship and state house of assembly elections. It also noted that the process was also fraught with widespread irregularities including...

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Nigeria’s active mobile subscribers dropped to 162,032,481 million in the fourth quarter, 2018 from 172,824,239 million and 162,522,772 million recorded in the third and second quarter, 2018, respectively. The NBS disclosed this in its “Telecommunication Data (Q3 and Q4 2018)” released on its...

The outgoing Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, His Eminence John Cardinal Onaiyekan, on Monday frowned at the violence and militarisation of the polls across the nation. He said election is supposed to be an opportunity for Nigerians to choose their leaders, and not a battlefield. Onaiyekan said this at the opening...

The Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA) has waded into the controversy trailing the activities of the Nigerian Army during the Saturday governorship polls, especially in Rivers State and called on politicians and stakeholders not to rubbish the military institution in the country. HURIWA also urged the Chief of Army Staff,...

Lagos State Governor-elect, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu said he was confident that the people of the State would choose courage over fear in the just concluded gubernatorial election. INEC said Sanwo-Olu polled a total of 739,445 votes to defeat his main challenger, Mr. Jimi Agbaje of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),...