archiveDecember 2019

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday sign the 2020 Appropriation Bill of N10.59 trillion into law.  The Appropriation Bill was transmitted to the President for his assent last week. President Buhari had on October 8 presented the budget estimate to the joint session of the National Assembly. The Senate President,...

A Tinubu Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday ordered that a Nigerian musician, Adeyemi Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley should be arrested and arraigned over alleged car theft. The chief magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, ordered that the Investigating Police Officer (IPO), Sgt. Sunday Idoko, handling the case must...

  Senate President, Senator Ahmad Lawan, on Monday, declared that Nigerians will determine the fate of the controversial hate speech bill. This position follows the unceasing attack on the proposed bill Lawan also insisted that the 9th Senate and indeed the National Assembly should be judged by its actions and...

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, on Sunday called on the National Judicial Council, NJC, to sack the Chief Justice of the Federation, CJN, Tanko Muhammad for allegedly attempting to start a religious conflict in Nigeria. HURIWA, a prominent civil rights advocacy group claimed that Tanko was attempting...

  The Bankers Committee Saturday introduced a classification of the Bank Verification Number (BVN) to fast track the achievement of the financial inclusion goal of 20 per cent by 2020. With this development, the BVN has been classified into two groups: BVNPremium BVN Lite. The committee which comprises the chief...

  The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a 124.2 million dollars loan to finance the urban water sector reform and Akure water supply and sanitation projects in Nigeria. A statement issued by the bank on Friday said that the amount includes an African Growing...

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) on Friday pegged the composite Manufacturers CEO’s Confidence Index (MCCI) for the third quarter of 2019 at 51.7 per cent. The percentage was given in a statistics report made available to newsmen in Lagos. According to the report, the value presents a marginal increase...

  The All-Share Index of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday bowed to profit taking after two-day upward trend. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the index lost 33.59 per cent to close at 26,536.21 compared with 26,569.80 achieved on Thursday. Also, the market capitalisation which opened...

    Director-General, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Is’haq Modibbo Kawu has disclosed that the commission had decided to issue 200 additional licenses for broadcasting stations across the country. Kawu made this announcement while speaking at the fifth anniversary of the Fresh Insight Newspapers, held in Ilorin, Kwara state. He...

  Cision, a public relations and earned media software company and services provider, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois; with clients worldwide has just released its 2019 State of the Media Report, which sheds light on the public’s trust in the media and how journalists choose which stories to write about. According...