archiveOctober 2019

  President Muhammadu Buhari has extended warm wishes to Prof. Olu Aina, former Registrar/Chief Executive, National Business and Technical Examinations Board, (NABTEB) on the occasion of his 80th birthday on October 24. The President, in a statement by the Special Adviser on Media and publicity, Chief Femi Adesina, saluted the...

Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa has nominated Adamu Atiku, the eldest son of the Presidential candidate of the PDP in 2019 general election, Atiku Abubakar, and 22 others as commissioners. The list was read out at the Wednesday plenary of the Adamawa House of Assembly presided over by the Speaker,...

A High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, on Wednesday halted the proclamation made by the state government to relocate the headquarters of Ilejemeje Local Government from Iye Ekiti to Eda-Oniyo Ekiti. Addressing journalists on Monday, the Deputy Governor, Chief Bisi Egbeyemi, announced the relocation of the...

  Boeing Co reported a 53 per cent drop in quarterly profit on Wednesday as the world’s largest plane maker was hurt by the grounding of its best-selling 737 MAX jets. The company had a negative free cash flow of 2.89 billion dollars in the quarter, compared with a positive...

Following the renewed xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa, the federal government has restated its commitment to ensure the implementation of the Early Warning Signal mechanisms recently signed between both countries in South Africa, as part of the efforts to curb xenophobic attacks. It was reported on Tuesday that...

  Zenith Bank Plc has continued its impressive performance as its unaudited results for the period ended 30 September, 2019, clearly demonstrates its market dominance and leadership. The result it presented to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Wednesday shows that its gross earnings increased by 4 per cent, from...

Contrary to speculations that the country is in debt crisis, the Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, has said that the country is not but that she has revenue generation problem. Ahmed disclosed this on Wednesday while giving the brief of the proposed 2020 budget at the 4th National Assembly...

  Boeing made incorrect assumptions about how pilots would respond to system malfunctions on its 737 MAX aircraft, and this contributed to the Lion Air plane crash in Oct. 2018, Indonesian investigators told families of the victims on Wednesday. A Lion Air passenger jet plummeted into the Java Sea after...

Nigeria's oil production quota has been increased by OPEC to 1.77mbpd from 1.69mbpd which the country was given in December last year. This an increase of 80,000bpd While OPEC is yet to make a formal announcement about the change in Nigeria's agreement, the Nigerian Minister of State for Petroleum Resources-...

  The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the Inspector General (I-G) of Police, Mohammed Adamu, and the Police Service Commission (PSC) to maintain a status quo on the ongoing recruitment of 10, 000 officers. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the order at the hearing of the case brought by...