archiveSeptember 2019

The Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has accused the police in Ondo State of not being serious about resolving the murder of Olufunke Olakurin, the daughter of its leader, Reuben Fasoranti. The group in a statement on Sunday by its spokesperson, Yinka Odumakin, said it was compelled to speak out over...

  The head office of Unity Bank on Victoria Island, Lagos State has been gutted by fire. The fire outbreak which started in the early hours of Monday was confirmed by the bank via its official Twitter handle. The bank said, “We regret to inform the public that there was...

  The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has put the total amount remitted to the Federation Account between 2012 and 2016 at N28.58 trillion. It said the remittances came from three major sources: mineral revenues, non-mineral revenues and value added tax (VAT). NEITI said in a statement from its...

  Our attention has been drawn to a report of the House Committee on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness issued on Thursday, November 8, 2018, particularly in respect of funds released for “emergency intervention of food security to the North-East” in June 2017, when the Vice President was Acting President. In...

  The Managing Director of Heritage Bank, Mr Ifie Sekibo has identified poor identity management as the greatest hindrance to boosting access to credit, especially for small and medium enterprises, in Nigeria. Sekibo stated this while speaking as a guest at the Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria, (FICAN) annual conference...

Former military leader, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), on Saturday urged Igbos to ensure that Nigerians continue to feel their positive impact. He said this was due to their tenecity in business enterprises which spans the length and breath of the country and beyond. Babangida made the remark in Minna,...

Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili has reacted to the charges brought against human rights activist and pro-democracy campaigner, Omoyele Sowore, by the Nigerian Government. Nigerian government on Friday placed a seven-count charge of treasonable felony and money laundering against detained activist and Convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Sowore. Sowore, a...

  The seven-count charge slammed against human rights activist, Omoyole Sowore, who is the co-convener of the #RevolutionNow protest, has been condemned by human rights group, Amnesty International. Reacting to the charges against Sowore which was signed on behalf of t‎he Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar...

The  Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to accept the “bitter truth” in the report of the UN Rapporteur, Agnes Callamard. In a statement issued by the party, available via its verified Twitter handle, PDP said “The PDP counsels President Buhari to show humility and accept the...

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says the President Muhammadu Buhari regime has attained an “unprecedented level of paranoia” following the charges of treason filed against human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore. In a statement on Saturday, Soyinka said the nation had failed to learn from past experiences. He said, “This is...