archiveOctober 4, 2019

ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE OCCASION OF HIS TOWN HALL MEETING WITH NIGERIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA ON 4TH OCTOBER 2019 PROTOCOLS It gives me pleasure to be with you today. I hope you had a memorable 59th Independence Anniversary celebrations...

Mr Timothy Owoeye, the Speaker, Osun House of Assembly, has urged commissioner and special adviser nominees to fast track development in the state through harmonious working relationship with the legislature. Owoeye made the call on Friday during continuation of the screening of the nominees as commissioners and special advisers by...

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) All-Share Index on Friday lost 98.45 points or 0.36 per cent to close lower at 26,987.45 mark. The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that this was against 27,085.69 mark achieved at close of business on Thursday. Similarly, the market capitalisation which opened at N13.185...

Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Dr. Matthew Hassan Kukah, has accused successive administrations of 'systematic destruction of national policies'. Speaking at the third annual conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) in Lagos on Friday, Kukah, a popular crusading cleric, declared that the systematic destruction of policies by...

  Farmers, residents in rural areas deserve to be subsidized   President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has made a case for local contents in all engineering projects undertaken in the country. "I believe in the local contents and I think it is high time we insist on the local...

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) joined The World Federation of Exchanges (“WFE”) and International Organization of Securities Commissions (“IOSCO”) in the inaugural “Ring the Bell for Financial Literacy” initiative, using its Closing Gong ceremony to further draw attention to the importance of financial literacy. The Closing Gong ceremony which held...

Teachers in Edo State under the auspices of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) have endorsed Governor Godwin Obaseki for a second term in office. The teachers made their opinion known when they paid a mega thank you visit to Governor Obaseki at the New Era College hall in Benin...

Rights activist and Convener of Nigerians Unite Against Terror (NUAT), Joe Okei-Odumakin, and a civil society organisation, have condemned the handcuffing of journalist, Agba Jalingo, by police and prison officials. Jalingo, who is the Publisher of Cross River Watch, an online news platform, had been seen in several photographs making...

As part of the several activities lined up for its third annual conference holding on Friday, October 4, the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) organised a pre-conference lunch and interactive session with leading lights in the marketing and communications sectors. Speaking at the event, the President of the Public...

  The police on Thursday said it had arrested a comedian, Augustine Valentine, popularly known as `MC Fine’, for alleged spread of fake news. Biodun Makanjuola, Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of the force in Bwari, FCT, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), that Mr Valentine posted a false report...