archiveMarch 18, 2019

Access Bank Plc said on Monday that a five-year Fixed Rate Senior Unsecured N15 billion Green Bond, the first climate bond to be issued in Africa, was fully subscribed. The bank’s Group Managing Director, Mr Herbert Wigwe, stated this at the bond-signing ceremony in Lagos. Green bond is a bond...

  To publish names of impersonators for past 10 years The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board ( JAMB ) on Monday insisted that only candidates verified through biometrics would be allowed to write next month’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed this in Abuja at...

As President Muhammadu Buhari prepares to begin his second term in office, President of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Mansur Ahmed, has urged him to address the challenges militating against the manufacturing sector of the economy.   Boosting the manufacturing sector Nigeria urgently needs a massive economic stimulus programme. If...

Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) were linked to risks of premature death, particularly death from cardiovascular diseases, according to a Harvard study published on Monday in the journal Circulation. In the study, researchers analysed data from 80,647 women and 37,716 men, who answered questionnaires about lifestyle factors and health status every two...

  The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Mr Godwin Emefiele, on Monday said that over five hundred million dollars was being spent annually on importation of palm oil. Emefiele said this at a stakeholders’ meeting on the Palm Oil Value Chain held in Abuja. The meeting was attended by...

  Lagos State Governor-elect, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has revealed that he visited President Muhammadu Buhari at his office in Aso Rock in company of his deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat to congratulate the nation's number one citizen for winning his second term election in the just concluded presidential election. The elated...

As the Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination (UTME) draws near,  the Joint Admission and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has revealed new innovations it has introduced for successful conduct of the examination in 2019. The registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, made this known in Abuja on Monday at a meeting on strategic planning and...

The Policies, Programmes and Projects Audit Committee recently set up by President Muhammadu Buhari is working to produce a specific document that will encapsulate all promises made by the president during the election campaign that preceded the 2019 general election. The committee, which is chaired by the Vice President Yemi...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s posturing that he will not manipulate the March 23 governorship supplementary election is in an indication that he rigged the presidential polls. PDP said Buhari’s stance on the “supplementary elections is not only a direct confession that the Presidency...

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the just conducted Nigeria’s presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has finally filed petition against the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari who was declared winner of the February 23 poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Atiku and his party are...