archiveSeptember 26, 2019

The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) said it had commenced payment to depositors of 154 Micro Finance Banks (MFBs) that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) revoked their licences in 2018 due to insolvency. The Managing Director of NDIC, Umaru Ibrahim, said this at the Corporation’s day at the ongoing...

The Federal High Court, Abuja Division, has issued a warning that it would order the imprisonment of the Director-General of the State Security Service (SSS), Yusuf Bichi The court gave the warning on Thursday in response to the failure of the SSS to release the detained publisher of Sahara Reporters,...

    The World’s second richest man, Bill Gates, Thursday in New York, described Nigeria as the greatest commitment of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates made this comment while meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari along with African richest man, Aliko Dangote, at the sidelines of the 74th United Nations...

The Federal Executive Council presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday approved N109.4billion for the construction of Ibadan–Ilesha–Ife and Kano–Katsina (Phase two) dual carriageways. The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, disclosed this when he briefed State House Correspondents on the outcome of the Council meeting held...

  A Lagos-based lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has said that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has no constitutional right to waive his immunity. He also said that Osinbajo can be probed without him waiving his immunity because “immunity under Section 308 of the constitution does not extend to a criminal investigation by...