archiveAugust 12, 2019

  Nigerians spend over 730 billion Naira annually on sports betting and at least two billion naira is generated daily, recent research data shows. Data also revealed that over 60 million Nigerian punters spend over 3, 000 naira daily placing bet stakes. At least there are 50 betting sites in...

  International Breweries (IB), Linkage Assurance and Forte Oil emerged worst performing stocks in percentage terms on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in July. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that data obtained from the exchange showed that IB led the losers’ chart with a loss of 31.69 per...

    Mr Umaru Baba, a statistician says poor statistical data in the country has made it difficult to track the progress the nation has made so far on developmental issues. He said this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. Baba said statistics...

  The Yoruba Youth Socio-Cultural Association (YYSA) has called on National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCD) to ban production of films with suicide scenes. Mr Olalekan Hammed,National President of the association, in a statement on Monday in Osogbo, said suicide rate was alarming, adding that negative roles of suicide...

  The Federal Government may consider introducing special allowance tagged “Scarce Skills Allowances” to curb the persistent challenge of brain drain which is detrimental to the nation’s economy. The Chairman of the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC), Chief Richard Egbule said in an interview with the News Agency...

Islamic State has claimed its fighters killed 15 Nigeria soldiers during a clash in Ghoubio, Borno state, in northeast Nigeria. The terror group said it attacked the Nigerian troops on Sunday leaving about 15 soldiers dead, after which the insurgents seized five vehicles and different weapons and ammunition. The Nigerian...

President Muhammadu Buhari has applauded the election of Prof. Ralph Akinfeleye into the World Journalism Education Council, the first African to achieve such feat. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina in Abuja on Monday, the president congratulated Akinfeleye over his new appointment....

  There is an uncertainty about the status of a Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, as well as the Chairman, Special Presidential Investigation Panel (SPIP) on the Recovery of Public Property, Mr Obono-Obla, as his Asokoro office has been sealed off since Friday. According to Tribune Online sources...

  The Benue State Police Command said on Monday that gunmen have kidnapped the Provost, College of Education, Katsina Ala, Mr Tsavwua Gborigyo. The State Police Public Relations Office, DSP Catherine Anene, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Makurdi that the provost was abducted during the weekend. Anene disclosed...

An 80-year-old woman said to have been raped by unknown persons was, on Monday morning, found lying on the floor, dead, inside her house with her mouth stuffed with clothes. The octogenarian, Jedidah Wanjiru, according to a Kenya’s news medium, Daily Nation, had bruises on her neck, suggesting that she...