archiveJuly 2019

        Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says cattle should not take priority over human beings as President Muhammadu Buhari's plans to settle herdsmen on lands across states of Nigeria. He said this while fielding questions from journalists about the proposed Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) initiative. “RUGA is...

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded the immediate prosecution of the former Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, over his alleged role in the reported National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) N2.5 billion fraud. The party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, yesterday, also demanded...

  The Senate on Wednesday constituted a seven-man ad-hoc committee to investigate alleged assault of a woman at a toy shop in Abuja by Senator Elisha Abbo. The Adamawa North Senator, said to be the youngest in the chamber, was observed in a 10-minutes video footage recklessly slapping a lady...

    The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), said  that the total value of capital importation into Nigeria stood at 8,485 million dollars in the first quarter of 2019. The bureau said this in its “Nigerian Capital Importation (Q1 2019) Report” for July 2019 published on its website. The News...

Transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) maintained negative slide for the second trading day of the month with investors’ net worth dropping by N94 billion. Consequently, the market capitalisation dropped to N12 trillion mark, having lost N94 billion to close at N12.956 trillion compared with N13.050 trillion recorded on...

Ikeja Electric Plc (IE) says it has commenced the rollout of meters for customers in the Shomolu Business Unit under its Meter Asset Providers (MAPs) scheme. The acting Chief Commercial Officer, Ikeja Electric, Ugochukwu Obi-Chukwu, made this known on Tuesday in Lagos. Obi-Chukwu said his organisation had just completed meter...

  Mrs Olatokunbo Fagbemi, Group Managing Director, Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO aviance) Plc on Tuesday said the company’s profit would grow by 323.3 per cent in the 2019 financial year. Fagbemi stated this at the company’s Facts Behind the Figures presentation at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in Lagos....

  National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has urged  fruit sellers to refrain from using calcium carbide to ripen fruits for commercial purpose. The NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, made the call in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, saying that “using carbide to ripen fruits...

  Mr Salisu Dahiru, the National Coordinator, Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP), has said that Nigeria ranks the highest with deforestation rate in the world. Dahiru said this on Tuesday in Benin, while delivering a lecture, entitled “managing land degradation in Nigeria: the challenges, action and remediation,” at...

    The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has advised job seekers against offering bribe to anybody for recruitment into the service. The Public Relation Officer of the service, Mr Joseph Attah, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja. Attah dismissed...