archiveAugust 27, 2019

    President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a 16-man new board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, with Dr. Pius Odubu from Edo State as the chairman. A statement signed by the Permanent Secretary (General Services Office), office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Olusegun Adekunle, on...

  The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) is set to host the 4th edition of the NSE Market Data Workshop. The event is scheduled to hold on Wednesday, September 11, 2019, at the Harbour Point, 4 Wilmot Close, Victoria Island, Lagos. With the theme, “Partnerships, Products and the Customer”, the 2019...

  The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Monday, received a rousing welcome from an excited crowd in his constituency in Yobe state. Lawan, who departed Abuja on Monday, was on a thank you visit to his constituents, the first time since his emergence as President of the ninth...

  Scroll Report Online Publication has concluded arrangement to organize a one-day conference on in tackling security challenges in the country. The theme of the conference holding on Thursday August 29, at Sheraton Hotel Ikeja, Lagos by 10 AM is “Fighting Corruption and Insecurity: The Way Forward”. A statement signed...

The Governor Henry Seriake Dickson-led Restoration Group has swept the national delegates election of the Peoples Democratic Party in all the eight local Government Areas òf Bayelsa State. The Restoration Team had earlier overran the Timi Alaibe Campaign Organisation and other non Restoration aspirants of the party in three-man Ward...

  bags AU ambassadorial award   Chief Aare Afe Babalola (SAN) has said that the Nigeria 1999 Constitution is responsible for the mirage of problems confronting the country at the moment. He disclosed this on Tuesday after being conferred with the ambassadorial award by the African Union- Economic, Social and...

  The Federal Government has generated N311.94 billion from Value Added Tax (VAT) in the second quarter of 2019, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said. It said this in its Sectoral Distribution of VAT, Quarter Two obtained from its website on Tuesday in Abuja. According to the report,...

  The chairman of Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) Chief Peter Ameh has been reelected for a second term. Ameh, who is the national chairman of Progressives Peoples Alliance, won his reelection on Tuesday after scoring 62 votes to defeat other contestants. The election which was held at The Electoral Institute...

Some business centre operators in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, have confessed to issuing fake university degree certificate for as low as N2000. The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) on Tuesday paraded eight business (computer) centre operators for alleged forgery of academic documents. The agency said it was...

Uganda on Tuesday re-launched its national carrier, Uganda Airlines, hoping to take a slice of the East African aviation business that is dominated by Ethiopian Airlines. Ugandan Airlines Chief Executive Officer Ephraim Bagenda said at a ceremony at Entebbe, the country’s sole international airport, south of the capital Kampala, that...