archiveJuly 2019

  The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has apprehended another Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate, Cletus Kokowa, for upgrading his score from 162 to 206 with the help of a fraudster. Kokowa became the second candidate to be apprehended by the board following that of Adah Eche who...

Few moments after the Supreme Court judgement declaring Gboyega Oyetola as the duly elected governor of Osun, the presidential candidate of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has reacted saying that the judgement cannot be said to be the end of Senator Ademola Adeleke. The former vice president said...

The Supreme Court has affirmed the election of Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the governor of Osun State and dismissed the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate Ademola Adeleke in the September 2018 election. The court in a split decision...

  The Nigerian Stock Exchange has announced that the planned Cross Border Secondary Listing of 3,758,151,504 Ordinary Shares of Airtel Africa Plc. has been postponed from the scheduled date of Friday, July 5, 2019. According to terse statement from The Exchange, “the postponement was necessitated by the need to ensure...

  Two thirds of Germans would back legalisation of active voluntary euthanasia, while fewer than one in five are opposed. This was made known through a poll by the ‘YouGov research institute’ published in Berlin on Friday. Under current German law, active voluntary euthanasia is banned. Killing another person on...

Mr Olufemi Lijadu, Chairman, Board of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), says the capital market is important to any nation’s development. A statement by SEC in Abuja on Thursday quoted Lijadu as saying that the capital market had played critical roles in attracting investments. The board chairman made the...

The Senator who assaulted a woman at sex toy shop in Abuja, Mr.Elisha Abbo may spend the night in police custody after turning himself in as part of an ongoing investigation into his assault scandal. Premium Times reports that Abuja police commissioner Mr Bala Ciroma said that Mr Abbo had...

The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has beefed up his legal team by obtaining the services of foremost constitutional lawyer, Professor Ben Nwabueze SAN, to prosecute his petition challenging the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari at the February 23 election before the election tribunal. Nwabueze...

Activities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) sustained negative trend on Thursday with the market indicators dropping further by 0.26 per cent. Specifically, the All Share Index, which opened at 29,375.25, lost 75.16 points or 0.26 per cent to close at 29,300.09. Also, the market capitalisation of listed equities shed...

  Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has alleged that the last administration in the state awarded a contractor with untraceable office address the Moniya-Iseyin road for the sum of N7 billion. The governor who disclosed this after taking a tour of the Moniya-Iseyin road, said N2 billion out of...