archiveJanuary 16, 2020

    Justice Mojisola Dada of an Ikeja Special Offences Court on Thursday sentenced a man, Chibundu Anuebunwa, to one year imprisonment for an internet fraud. Dada, however, gave him an option of N1.5 million fine for committing fraud. “The defendant did not waste the time of the court and...

  Mr Abubakar Aliyu, Minister of State for Housing, has said that resolving Nigeria’s housing deficit required massive synergy with development partners. Aliyu spoke in Abuja on Thursday at a One-day Sensitisation Forum on Lands, Housing and Urban Development Multilateral Programmes of Collaboration and 10th Session of the World Urban...

After two days loss, trading activities rebounded on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Thursday following investors’ interest in some highly capitalised equities. Specifically, the market capitalisation of listed equities grew by N150 billion or one per cent to close at N15.142 trillion against N14.992 trillion posted on Wednesday. In...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has sent the name of Dr Kingsley Isitua Obiora to the Senate for confirmation as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, confirmed this development in a statement in Abuja on Thursday. In...

  Nigeria and some other West African Contries have kicked against the adoption of Eco as regional currency. This is contained in a communiqué read by Mr Mamadi CAMARA, the Minister for Economy and Finance of the Republic of Guinea in Abuja on Thursday. The communique was issued after an...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with the first interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Adebisi Akande, on his birthday and wishing him longer years, good health and more strength to keep serving the nation. The president’s congratulatory message on the occasion of Akande’s 81st birthday was...

President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, said on Thursday that Nigeria has made significant progress over the last 28 years since the country’s return to democracy in 1999. Lawan stated this in a speech delivered at the 17th Edition of the Daily Trust Dialogue with the theme “Twenty Years...

  urges Governor to initiate healing process for all political actors in Imo State Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, has said the emergence of newly sworn-in Governor of Imo State,  Senator Hope Uzodinma, through a Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday marks the beginning of an...

  The Lagos State Government says an aptitude test for pre-qualified applicants for the Lagos Agripreneurship Programme (LAP) under its Agriculture-based Youth Empowerment Scheme (Agric-Yes) will hold on Jan. 20. The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Gbolahan Lawal, made this known on Thursday in Lagos. Lawal said that the test...

  seizes 10,000 bags of smuggled foreign rice, others Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) currently rakes in between five and seven billion Naira on duties on imported goods into the Federal Government coffers daily, Coordinator, Joint Border Operations Drill, North Central states, Comptroller Mr. Mohammed Garba has said. He added that...