archiveOctober 30, 2019

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said the National Assembly through its Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, will strive to ensure justice for the underprivileged in the society. Lawan stated this when a delegation of the Continental Executive Committee of the African Ombudsman and Mediator led by...

As part of ongoing efforts at bridging over 22 million housing deficit in the country, Echostone Nigeria Limited has signed a joint development agreement with the Nigerian Police to develop 100,000 homes for its officer nationwide at the cost of N750 billion. Over time, stakeholders have been lamenting over an...

  The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, on Wednesday said that the ministry would soon commence the sale of housing units built under the National Housing Programme nationwide. He said that this would be done through an online subscription to allow for transparency and reduce human interference...

  Nigeria and the United States recorded 5.21 billion dollars bilateral trade between January and August this year. The Consul General, US Consulate in Lagos, Ms Claire Pierangelo, disclosed this during the 2019 International Investment Conference on Wednesday in Lagos. The event, organised by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and...

        The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) crucial market indices inched 0.25 per cent on Wednesday due to renewed buying interest occasioned by the low price of equities. Specifically, the market capitalisation rose by N32 billion or 0.25 per cent to close higher at N12.807 trillion against N12.775...

MTN  Nigeria Communications Plc on Wednesday announced a revenue of N856.48 billion for nine months ended Sept. 30, 2019. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the revenue figure is on the company’s nine months unaudited result posted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) website. The unaudited result showed...

Dr Uwoma Uche, Head, Department of Mass Communication, Abia Polytechnic, Aba, has called on the Federal Government to set up a regulatory body to monitor and scrutinise the information flow in the social media space. Uche made the call on Wednesday while delivering a lecture at the 2019 Press Week...

  The first military governor of Lagos State, Brigadier Mobolaji Johnson is dead A top official of the Lagos State Government confirmed the news to our The Punch correspondent. Mobolaji, who was born on February 9, 1936, died on Wednesday (today), aged 83. As Military Governor of Lagos State, he...

President Muhammadu Buhari has welcomed the Wednesday ruling of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, dismissing the case brought before it by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Reacting to the verdict through a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed shock at the ruling of the Supreme Court that threw out the petition of its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. The party in a press statement signed by its natsaid that the outcome of the court was the reverse of what Nigerians were expecting...