archiveNovember 22, 2019

Ekiti State Commissioner of Police, Mr Asuquo Amba, said on Friday that the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, had ordered a thorough investigation into Thursday’s armed robbery attack on the Oye Ekiti branch of a new generation bank and the Oye Police Division. Amba, who said there was a...

The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA), has decried failure of the Senate to consider stakeholders submissions before passage of the Finance Bill into Law. Mr Timothy Olawale, the Director-General raised concern on Friday in a statement signed by NECA’s Project Officer, Mr Oluwaseun Amigun. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports...

Oil prices held near two-month highs on Friday and were set for a third consecutive week of gains, boosted by expectations of an extension to OPEC+ production cuts although doubts over U.S. and China trade talks capped gains. Brent crude futures LCOc1 dropped 6 cents to 63.91 dollars a barrel...

New Tottenham Hotspur manager Jose Mourinho, who described himself as happy and humble, has vowed to bring success to the struggling north London club and said they could even win the Premier League next season. Speaking ahead of Saturday’s Premier League clash against West Ham United, a smiling Mourinho told...

  An Economist, Mr Titus Okurounmu, on Friday urged the Federal Government to provide more support to boost the real sector, as an antidote in curbing inflation. Okurounmu, a former Director of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), spoke in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...

  The Court of Appeal sitting in Sokoto on Friday upheld the election of Governor Aminu Tambuwal as the duly elected governor of Sokoto State. The five-man panel presided over by Justice Usaini Murkhtar dismissed the appeal filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its governorship candidate, Ahmad Aliyu...

Chairman, Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, Senator Uba Sani has said that the committee had resolved to join hands with the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) to push for the recovery of N5 trillion debts owed by high profile Nigerians. He said this on Friday...

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, on Friday attacked and described the 9th Senate under the leadership of Ahmed Lawan as a mere ‘rubber stamp.” He said this in response to the comment by the Senate President that any request from President Muhammadu Buhari was good for Nigeria. Lawan had in...

The yuletide season comes to life in Lagos as Zenith Bank Plc lights up Ajose Adeogun Street with the theme “LET THERE BE LIGHT” This year marks the 14th year since the traditional Light up Ceremony at the Ajose Adeogun roundabout came to be. The official lighting was done by...

  President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, has declared that any request President Muhammadu Buhari sends to the Senate would make Nigeria better. Lawan made the declaration while hosting the chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) Prof Itse Sagay in his office in Abuja on Thursday. He...