archiveMarch 2019

  Canaan House, also known as the Blue House, has emerged winner of the M.D School, Oko Oba, Lagos State 13th biennial inter house sports competition held at the Agege Stadium last week. Canaan House beat Bethel and Gilgal to lift the giant trophy as champions. I did so by...

The Nigerian equities market kicked off the week with a positive start as the ASI notched higher by 0.95 per cent to 32,129.94 points, following gains across heavyweight stocks. Accordingly, the Month-to-Date and Year-to-Date returns increased to 1.30% and 2.23%, respectively. Across sector indices, the Banking (+2.66%), Consumer Goods (+0.43%),...

The running mate to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in the just concluded presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi, has said that the just concluded presidential and National Assembly elections were neither transparent, free, fair nor credible. Speaking to the press in his Onitsha home Monday,...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has refuted claims that the Governor of the apex bank, Godwin Emefiele has been fired by the Federal Nigerian Government. On Monday, the Nigerian media was awash with reports of Emefiele’s Sack with many making wild guesses about the government’s reason for making...

Following the outcome of the Presidential Election, which returned President Muhammadu Buhari to Aso Rock, BudgIT has called on the Buhari government to assign a higher priority to oil and gas sector reforms in the second phase of his administration. It would be recalled that President Buhari rejected last August...

The Forum of Presidential Candidates and Political Parties for Good Governance has advised Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to have a rethink on his decision to contest the presidential election result in court, saying he doesn't need such action 'at his age". The group made...

The Nigeria Police Force says it has arrested 323 persons across the country for alleged electoral offences during the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections. The force had earlier arrested 128 persons for alleged electoral offences. NAN reports that the Acting Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr. Mohammed Adamu, disclosed...

  The Bayelsa State Government House Photographer, Reginald Dei, has finally died in an emergency ward of a private hospital in Yenagoa, the state capital. Dei was shot by gunmen in army uniform in Oweikorogha, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area during the last Presidential and National Assembly elections. He was...

The Chairman of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Group, Mr. Tony Elumelu, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari, to address Nigeria’s power situation as well as ensure that operators of micro, small and medium scale enterprises (MSMEs) are given the necessary support in his second term. According to Elumelu, who...

The management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has announced the commencement of online registration for prospective 2019 Batch A corps members. The registration exercise which commences on Monday, 4th March, will run till Tuesday, 19th March, 2019. This was confirmed in a statement on Monday on the NYSC...