archive2019

Nigeria’s Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), a faction of Boko Haram affiliated to the Islamic State militant group, has intensified attacks against the army in the northeast of the country at an alarming rate, and the military appears to be struggling. Here are the principal reasons: Better-armed jihadists Fighters...

The presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Mrs Obiageli Ezekwesili, has asked the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mamoud Yakubu, to reverse the recent deployment of Mrs Amina Zakari, one of its commissioners. Zakari, a niece of President Muhammadu Buhari’s, was on Thursday...

    ‘Presidency pushed by desperation to rig’ The immediate past Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has described the outcry over the appointment of President Muhammadu Buhari’s niece, Amina Zakari, as Head of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) collation centre for the general elections as a moral...

  The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has declared January 10 as National Day of Prayers for peaceful, free, fair and credible elections. The Christian body also declared it as day of freedom for Leah Sharibu and others in the Boko Haram captivity, according to the News Agency of Nigeria....

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has agreed to participate in the 2019 general election in spite of its ongoing strike. However, the decision was announced on Friday, after the meeting between INEC and ASUU. A tweet by INEC read: "Happening Now: ASUU agrees to participate in 2019 General...

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said that it would release no fewer than 179 reports on different sectors of the economy this year. According to the 2019 tentative data release calendar posted on the bureau’s Website, the NBS is expected to release 47 data in the first quarter....

Founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti(ABUAD), Chief Afe Babalola(SAN), has decried the poor funding of public universities, stating it accounts for the despicable condition of tertiary education in the nation. Babalola lamented the Federal Government has consistently underfunded education sector with meagre allocation of seven percent of the national...

  The presidency on Friday defended the appointment of Mrs Amina Zakari as head of the collation centre for Independent Electoral Commission (INEC). The appointment of Zakari, whose partiality had been questioned by opposition parties in previous elections. The main opposition party, PDP, and a coalition of some opposition parties,...

As part of its Employee Give-Back Initiative aimed at extending a hand of care to the less privileged people in the society, employees of The Nigerian Stock Exchange pulled resources during the year-end festivities to fund specific needs in two charity homes: Bethesda Home for the Blind, Lagos and Children...

  The trending report by China Railway Construction Corporation, the company in charge of Lagos light rail project otherwise known as Lagos monorail, has yet again piqued our curiosity and unrelenting demand for the openness of Lagos State budget. Just as taxpayers, BudgIT is seriously concerned about the discrepancy between...