archiveJune 2019

The President of the Nigerian Baptist Convention, Rev. Supo Ayokunle, has been re-elected President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). The results was announced on Tuesday by Bishop Matthew Kukah, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, at the Ecumenical Centre, Abuja. Ayokunle got 59 votes to defeat the...

The Centre for Anti-corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL) has told President Muhammadu Buhari that it was duly informed that the 2019 general elections lacked transparency. The group called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) security agencies and the Federal Government to reform the nation’s electoral process. This was contained...

A Nigerian, identified as Jeffery Ewohime, destroyed properties, mainly cars, at the Nigerian Embassy in London. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman, Nigerians In the Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), condemned the attitude of the 32-year old Nigerian. Mrs Dabiri-Erewa, in a statement by her media aide, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, said such an attitude was...

  The Vatican has formally opened debate on letting married men be ordained as priests in remote parts of the Amazon where priests are so few that Catholics can go weeks or months without attending a Mass. The call for a study on the proposal was contained in the working...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday said Nigeria recorded a total of $14.2 billion capital flows into the country in the first five months of the year. According to the regulatory bank, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) component of the capital flows stood at $2.87 billion in the...

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Former Anambra Governor, Peter Obi, has commended the European Union Election Observer Mission over its report, saying that it captured the concerns of some Nigerians on the 2019 general elections. Obi, in a statement issued by his Media Office on Monday in Abuja, described the report as a `vindication of...

  The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and its Asset Management Company have reached advanced discussions to sell equity holding in Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI). The company said that IFC and the Asset Management Company (AMC) had entered into a share purchase agreement with Dutch investment firm, Arise BV for the...

  Former Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, died on Monday in a Cairo hospital after fainting during a session in court, judicial and security sources said. “He was speaking before the judge for 20 minutes then became very animated and fainted. He was quickly rushed to the hospital where he later...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has promised automatic employment to corps members who performed exceptionally well as ad hoc staff during the 2019 General Elections. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made the promise on Monday in Abuja at the presentation of kits with laptops and phones by...