archiveJune 26, 2019

    A human rights activist and senior lawyer, Femi Falana has written to the Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Justice Abdu Kafarati, asking him to ensure that the civilians being detained at various military detention centres in the country are tried without delay. In the letter...

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Dr. Thomas M.A. John as the Acting Alternate Chairman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Governing Board. A statement by the Group Managing Director, NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, in Abuja stated that Dr. John, a former Group Managing Director of the NNPC, was before...

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), the leading market for Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) in the West African region, has commenced a three-day enlightenment campaign to increase investors’ awareness and participation in the ETFs market. The campaign which runs from June 26 to 28, 2019, will see the Exchange engage investors...

  Benue State Government has rejected the Federal Government’s proposed Ruga settlement for herdsmen. In a statement, the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Governor, Terver Akase, drew the attention of those sponsoring the proposal to the state’s Anti-Open Grazing Prohibition Law and the need to obey it. The statement...

The lawsuit of $2 billion tax dispute between South African telecommunications giant, MTN Groups and the Federal Government of Nigeria was on Wednesday adjourned until October 19. Nigeria’s attorney general, Abubakar Malami, on behalf of the President Muhammadu Buhari government had demanded MTN to pay the $2 billion last September....

  A retired Nigerian Army General and former minister of defence, Lt-Gen Theophilus Danjuma, is currently worth an estimated $1.2 billion, Bloomberg, the US-based media organisation has said. This amounts to N432 billion in the Nigerian currency as the media organisation declares that the 80-year-old’s family office managing a portion...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of allegedly sponsoring an “amorphous group” to support the denial by the Commission of the existence of a server. It would be recalled that a group under the  aegis of Forum of Presidential Candidates of the...

    The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), said India was the largest export market for Nigeria in the first quarter (Q1) of 2019 with a net worth of N744.9 billion. The bureau said this in its Commodity Price Indices and Terms of Trade (Q1 2019) on its website on...

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has reiterated its position to clamp down on motorcycles and tricycles operating without number plates and their drivers operating without the class “A” drivers license with effect from 1st August 2019. In a statement on Wednesday, Bisi Kazeem, Corps Public Education Officer, FRSC, said...

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Ondo State on Wednesday denied the news making the rounds that 10 of its corps members were kidnapped in the state. The NYSC Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr Bankole Simeone, stated this in a statement in Akure. According to him, “The...