archiveNovember 2019

  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...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the re-appointment of Aliyu Aziz, Director-General, and National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) for a second term. Mr Abdulhamid Umar, General Manager, Operations and Corporate Communications of the organisation, said this in a statement in Abuja on Friday. Umar said that the re-appointment of Aziz...

  Omoyele Sowore, the convener of RevolutionNow Movement, has dragged the Department of State Services (DSS) before an Abuja Federal High Court over his continued detention. Sowore is asking the court to order the DSS to pay him N500m as general and aggravated damages over his detention which he termed...

Nigeria's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has experienced its second highest quarterly growth in four years having nudged up by 2.28 per cent in the third quarter of 2019, data by Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed. According to the NBS, the growth rate in third quarter (Q3) of 2019...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed November 30 for the conduct of supplementary and re-run elections for Kogi West Senatorial District and Ajaokuta Federal Constituency respectively. In a statement, the INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, said the decision was taken...