archiveAugust 2019

  The United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) has announced its audited half-year financial results for the period ended June 2019, showing impressive growth across key performance indices as well as a significant contribution from its African subsidiaries. In spite of the increasingly unpredictable environment witnessed in some of its...

  The Minister of State for Health, Sen. Adeleke Mamora, has called on universities in the country to introduce Bachelor of Science degree programme in herbal medicine for better healthcare delivery. Mamora made the call at a news conference to commemorate the 2019 African Traditional Medicine Day in Abuja on...

  SPEECH BY THE AARE ONAKAKANFO OF YORUBALAND AND NATIONAL COORDINATOR OF THE OODUA PEOPLE’S CONGRESS, IBA GANI ABIODUN IGE ADAMS, ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2019 AT THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF OPC IN LAGOS.   Protocols I tremble in awe of God when I look back at what started 25...

  The Oodua People’s Congress on Thursday honoured 21 Nigerians for their contributions to the growth of the organisation and their belief in and pursuit of the Yoruba cause. The honour was bestowed on the recipients at a well attended ceremony to mark the 25th anniversary of the OPC. The...

  The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has said the hierarchy of the Force has come to the realisation that present day law enforcement requires more than the old ways of things, hence its decision to change the face for community policing. Adamu, represented by the Assistant Inspector...

  Two Japanese companies, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, and Toyota Tsusho, Friday in Yokohama, Japan, told President Muhammadu Buhari that they were prepared to invest in different sectors of Nigeria. The companies made the disclosures when President Muhammadu Buhari held respective investment talks with their top officials at the...

  The contractor handling repainting of the headquarters building of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, Mr. Success Venture, has apologised for the failure of his workers to use the safety gear provided for them while working on the church's headquarters building. The photograph of some painters on a ladder...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has arrested one of the suspected internet fraudsters wanted by the United State’s Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI. The EFCC said Joseph Oyediran, 36, was arrested in Ilorin, Kwara State “as part of an international crackdown on a syndicate of cyber...

The market capitalisation of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) rebounded on Friday with a gain of N49 billion in the last trading day of August. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the market capitalisation which opened at N13.342 trillion inched N40 billion or 0.37 per cent to close...

  The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has end its 59th  Annual General Conference with a call on the Supreme Court to clarify whether the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) is an organ of the executive arm or a quasi-judical tribunal capable of being vested with criminal jurisdiction. The News Agency...