archiveMarch 2019

The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 23 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), despite its acclaimed integrity perpetrated the biggest electoral fraud in the history of the country. The former vice president disclosed this Wednesday in...

BudgIT, a civic organisation, has asked the leadership of the National Assembly (NASS) to make open details of its 2019 budget, showing a line-by-line breakdown of allocation. The organisation stated that the annual budget of the national assembly has remained a one-line statutory transfer which is neither reviewed by any...

The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) will auction by subscription N100 billion worth of bonds on March 27, the Debt Management Office (DMO) has said. The DMO said in a circular on its website on Tuesday in Abuja, that the five-year re-opening bonds of N40 billion to mature in April...

  The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar, has alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had at various stages of the February 23 presidential election, unlawful allocated votes to President Muhammadu Buhari. Atiku who made the allegation in the petition he lodged before the...

Professor Benedict Oramah, President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Cairo, Egypt, will deliver The Bullion Lecture 2019. Oramah who is also Chairman, Board of Directors, Afreximbank, currently serves on the Practitioner Advisory Board of the Institute for Trade and Innovation of Offenburg University, Gengenbach, Germany. He is also a...

    The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Tuesday that it has sealed up the premises of Growing Circle International for allegedly engaging in illegal capital market operations in the country. According to SEC the development followed information received from a member of the public, which made the...

  Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has broken silence on the outcome of the just-concluded presidential election. Obasanjo said he refused to speak on the presidential election because the matter was already before court. According to him, “It would amount to sub judice if I speak on Presidential election result since...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has declined assent to the Chartered Institute of Training and Development of Nigeria Bill. The president also declined assent to the Nigerian Aeronautic Research Rescue Bill. The communication from the president to the House of Representatives was read on the floor of the House by the...

The Chairman of Zenith Bank Plc, Mr. Jim Ovia, yesterday has assured  shareholders that the bank remains committed to delivering superior returns, by ensuring that a good chunk of its profit is set aside to reward investors. Ovia, said this during the financial institution’s 28th Annual General Meeting held in...

  The Senate on Tuesday approved N30,000 as national minimum wage with its passage of the National Minimum Wage Act (Repeal & Enactment) Bill 2019. This is sequel to the presentation of the report of the ad-hoc committee on the national minimum wage by its acting chairman, Senator Francis Alimikhena...