archiveApril 2, 2019

  President Muhammadu Buhari has declined assent to eight bills recently passed by the National Assembly. The bills are Ajaokuta Steel Company Completion Fund Bill, 2018; Chartered Institute of Training and Development Establishment bill, 2018; Nigerian Aeronautic Research bill, 2018 and National Institute of Credit Administration bill 2018. Others are...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of its 2019 Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted on April 1. JAMB’s Head, Media and Information, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos. According to him,...

  The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) on Tuesday described as “a crude joke” a statement credited to former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, is still better than President Muhammadu Buhari despite his electoral loss. The organisation made its position known...

  *Says FG will ensure prosperity & decent existence for all The focus of the Buhari administration in the next four years will be to address, among other things, the deficiencies in the quality of human resources caused by poor education and healthcare, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN....

Today we have publicly launched the new Access Bank, one company, with 28,000 staff across 600 branches and 29 million customers worldwide. This follows legal completion of the merger on 19 March and the launch of our new brand today. The enlarged Access Bank will have a formidable commercial and...

  The Nigerian equities market closed the first trading session of the week on a negative note as the benchmark index declined by 1.66 per cent to 30,527.50 points, driven by broad sell-offs across all sectors. As a result, the Year-to-Date return deteriorated to -2.87 per cent. On sectoral performance,...