archiveApril 3, 2019

 President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said that the killers of the late football fan, Kolade Johnson, would not escape unpunished. This was said in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina. “Government will not tolerate in any way the brutalisation of Nigerians or...

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved N5.5 billion towards creating 60,000 jobs in the country. The contract, under the N-Power Knowledge Multipack project, target to train 12,000 youths between 18 and 25 years old. The 12,000 youths will in turn be empowered to train additional youths, bringing the...

Despite concrete and visible interventions of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) via the Anchors Borrowers Programme (ABP) on the rice sub-sector of the Nigerian economy, over 70 per cent of rice in Nigeria markets are foreign or imported. In a three-week survey on the rice market across the six...

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu has been re-elected as the President of African Petroleum Producers’ Organisation (APPO) till December 2019 in a move that will allow him to conclude the ongoing reforms and restructuring of the Organisation. This marks a historical moment for the...

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has endorsed the Central Bank of Nigeria’s restrictive monetary policy, saying it is appropriate for the Nigerian economy at this time. The fund stated this in their Article IV on Nigeria released on Wednesday. “With inflation still above the central bank target, Directors generally...

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says 12,974 Nigerians have voluntarily returned from Libya in two years. The agency said the returnees were assisted back from the volatile North African country by the European Union (EU) and International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Voluntary Assisted Returnees Programme which began in April...

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has said that it plans to realize its revenue target for the year through recoveries from defaulting millionaire taxpayers, Values Added Tax (VAT) and compliance enforcement activities. The Chairman of FIRS, Mr. Tunde Fowler, speaking  at the House of Representatives joint committees on Finance,...

Nigeria’s economy, just like West Africa’s, has continued to perform poorly due to a myriad of challenges that must be resolved urgently if Africa’s economic growth is to keep pace with the rest of the world. The president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Prof. Akinwumi Adesina, said these challenges...

Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, in the 2018 election, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has reacted to the Judgement that declared him unfit to run for the governorship position in the State. Adeleke reacted in a statement...