archiveJanuary 2020

  The Federal Government has berated Transparency International for scoring Nigeria low in its 2019 corruption perception index report. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), said there was no evidence to back the report by TI, which placed Nigeria at 146 out of the...

  The Speaker of Oyo State House of Assembly, Adebo Ogundoyin, on Thursday, declared that Speakers from the six states in the South West geo-political zone are in full support of the recently launched Western Nigeria Security Network also known as Amotekun. Ogundoyin made this declaration while speaking at the...

  The Management of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced the appointment and redeployment of some Directors in the apex bank. A statement from the CBN on Thursday said Mr. Yusuf Philip Yila, a Director with the bank and the Managing Director, NIRSAL Microfinance Bank (NMFB), has been...

  says AGF lacked adequate information on matter Malami's letter not served on us—Oyo AG The Government of Oyo State has rejected the purported intervention of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) & Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) in the raging controversy over local government dissolution in the state....

  The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced that existing shareholders, including Nigeria and the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa have invested $200 million through Class A, B and C shares and $300 million in callable capital, bringing the total value of new shares issued by the bank...

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, has urged state governors to key into the Federal government’s  National Digital Economy policy and strategy. NAN reports that on Nov. 29, 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari, nveiled the National Digital Economy Policy, initiated by the Federal Ministry of Communications and...

  World Health Organisation (WHO) will on Thursday meet again to determine whether novel coronavirus is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Members of the WHO Emergency Committee deliberated until late on Wednesday evening, as they continue to study an outbreak of the new respiratory virus first identified...

  Chief Ugochukwu Okeke, the youthful and charismatic governorship aspirant for the Anambra governorship election, has said he will tap from the best brains in the state to run the first knowledge driven state in Nigeria. According to him, Nigeria and indeed the third world having missed the industrial revolution,...

Bishops of the Anglican Church in Nigeria have rejected the Tuesday January 14th Supreme Court’s judgment that nullified the election of Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as Imo state governor and replaced him with Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The Anglican Bishops, who spoke...

The police in Lagos have said that seven persons had been killed during cult violence in the Ijede area of Ikorodu, a sprawling suburb in the state. Spokesperson for the police in Lagos, Bala Elkana, further disclosed that 10 others had been arrested in connection with the crime. According to...