archiveMarch 12, 2019

The United States, US, based National Democratic Institute (NDI) and International Republican Institute (IRI) yesterday, urged the Federal Government to expeditiously commence fully implementation of the recommendations of Uwais Commission and Nnamani Committee’s reports without further delay. The joint international observer delegation, which stated this in the preliminary report on...

A list of five Justices of the Court of Appeal said to have been approved to hear the petition of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar, over the February 23 election has been leaked by the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP). The party in...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed 23rd March, 2019 for supplementary elections in states where elections were declared inconclusive. INEC announced the date in a press statement signed by the National Commissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye. INEC noted that it acted in compliance...

Five All Progressives Congress (APC) governors led by Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State are currency having a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, SaharaReporters exclusively reported. The meeting, which is at the instance of el-Rufai, is aimed at pressuring the President to help save the Governors of Adamawa, Kano, Bauchi...

Activities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), for the second consecutive day, maintained bearish trend, dropping further by 1.02 per cent due largely to mixed 2018 earnings reports. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the market capitalisation on Tuesday, nosedive by N120 billion or 1.02 per cent to...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Tuesday has lampooned  the Buhari Media Organization (BMO) over the its claim that President Muhammadu Buhari’s non-interference in the electoral process was the reason his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) lost in some states in the recently concluded governorship elections. This is even as...

The National Population Commission (NPC) says that a comprehensive database for births and deaths registration in the country from 2004-2019 will be ready by the end of the year. The Chairman of the commission’s Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS), Dr Tayo Olatunji, disclosed this on Tuesday in Lokoja. Olatunji,...

A federal high court in Abuja has ordered the Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Mr Ishaq Kawu, to appear before it in April, regardless of his health status. The court, in a ruling on Friday, asked Kawu’s lawyers to produce the defendant “even if he has to...

  The FDC Research has projected that the headline inflation is to increase marginally by 0.03 per cent to 11.4 per cent in February, thereby reversing the slide in January. This is likely to be as a result of an increase in aggregate demand during the election season. Most consumers...

Doubts over the regulatory influence of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been cleared by the Court of Appeal that reaffirmed its powers to intervene in the management and control of any public company which is considered to have failed, is failing or in crises. The Commission is statutorily...