archiveJuly 2019

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the reports about Africa do not often accurately represent the reality of life and opportunity and therefore called for different narratives about Africa. Osinbajo made the call during the Founder’s Presidential Dialogue as part of the 2019 Tony Eluemlu Foundation Entrepreneurship Leadership Forum...

The Oyo State Police Command has advised the public to be vigilant in order not to fall victim to new tricks used by fraudsters to break into bank accounts. The advice came following the arrest of 10 suspects paraded by the police command for alleged stealing and fraudulent SIM card...

  Nigeria’s leading rights activists, Chief Mike Ozekhome and Femi Falana, both Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) on Saturday described the proscription of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) as illegal and immoral. While Ozekhome said the proscription was “discriminatory”, Falana, who represents IMN leader Ibrahim el-Zakzaky, urged the Federal...

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MTN Plc led the gainers’ chart on Friday with N2, due to investors’ reactions to N2.95 interim dividend declared by the company for six months ended June 30, 2019. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the company released its unaudited result for the six months ended June 30...

The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL) on Friday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to withdraw the Babatunde Fashola from the ministerial list currently before the Senate for confirmation. CACOL said Fashola, who was the immediate past Minister of Work, Housing and Power, had failed to ensure good federal...

Former Education minister and Vice-President of the World Bank’s Africa division, Oby Ezekwesili on Friday expressed concerns over the plan by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to place forex restriction on the importation of milk. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) during the week had said it will place a...

  The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Thursday met with the registrars of 159 foreign universities in Africa, and accused some of these institutions of selling their certificates for between N300,000 and N500,000 each to unqualified Nigerians. These unqualified Nigerians, the NYSC added, were thereafter sent in by these corps-producing...

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has announced the results of the May/June West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). Announcing the results at a news conference in Lagos, on Friday, Mr Olu Adenipekun, Head of National Office (HNO), West African Examinations Council (WAEC), said a total of 1,020,519 candidates...

Tracka has raised alarm over “wasteful empowerment projects” in the 2019 Zonal Intervention Projects, nominated by members of the National Assembly. The organization also reiterates its condemnation of poor service delivery in the country, noting that the Zonal Intervention Projects account for N58 billion of the N100 billion Constituency Projects,...