archiveJune 19, 2019

    Kidnapped Dayo Adewole, son of former Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, has been released barely 24 hours after . He was kidnapped on Tuesday at his farm located at Iroko near Fiditi in Afijio Local Government Area of Oyo State. An aide to the minister told The Punch,...

*VP interacts with visiting Harvard Business School faculty, top business executives The Federal Government's vision for Nigeria in the next 10 years and more is to transform the economy into an industrialized one with a strong middle class and a place where the majority of the people are living above...

  In furtherance of its commitment to programmes aimed at ensuring that Nigeria keeps pace in the technologies and competencies that will define the 21st century and beyond through people empowerment, capacity and institutions building, Honeywell Group Limited has partnered with the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) to help...

  The South West U-13 and the South-South U-15 football teams have emerged winners of the national finals of the Zenith Bank/NFF U-13, U-15 Future Eagles Tournament held in Uyo, AkwaIbom State at the weekend. South-West U-13 Team thrashed North Central U-13 Team, 5 – 0, to emerge winners of...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has partnered the government of the Republic of Korea for creation of more investible products to enhance liquidity in Nigerian capital market. Ms Mary Uduk, SEC Acting Director-General, stated this on Wednesday at the Final Reporting Workshop and High Level Policy Dialogue for the...

For the third day running, activities on the nation’s bourse continued on a bearish mood on Wednesday, with the All Share Index dropping further by 0.15 per cent. Specifically, the index which opened trading at 29,818.80 shed 46.08 points or 0.15 per cent to close at 29,772.72 due to price...

Mr Femi Otedola on Wednesday announced his exit from Forte Oil Plc with divestment of 75 per cent stake in the company. Specifically, a total of 970.17 million shares of Forte Oil, worth N64.38 billion on the floors of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) was divested on Wednesday in an...

  A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday adjourned until Sept. 30, for continuation of trial in a debt recovery suit by the Federal Government against Shell Western Supply & Trading Ltd. In the suit numbered FHC/L/CS/336/16 and filed by its counsel, Prof. Fabian Ajogwu (SAN), the government seeks...

Human right lawyer, Femi Falana, has said that states controlled by the All Progressives Congress (APC) are insincere in their fight against corruption. He stressed that other than Kano State, other APC controlled states were insincere in their anti-corruption fight, hence the inability to constitute a formal structure to fight...

  Ogun State governor Dapo Abiodun has said that the state will leverage on its proximity to Lagos State to deepen investments in the state. “Ogun today is like New Jersey to New York,” Abiodun said after he and other All Progressives Congress (APC) governors met with President Muhammadu Buhari...