archiveFebruary 4, 2020

  warns MDAs to submit audited accounts or risk punitive measures from N’Assembly   The Senate on Tuesday approved the sum of Two hundred and thirty-eight billion, One hundred and forty-nine million, Three hundred and Twenty-five thousand, Eight hundred and thirty-two Naira Seventy kobo (N238,149,325,832.70) for the Nigeria Customs Service...

The Nigerian equities market sustained negative mood on Tuesday with the market indicators declining further by 0.35 per cent. Specifically, the All-Share Index (ASI) decreased by 101.13 points or 0.35 per cent to close at 28,432.27 against 28,533.40 recorded on Monday. Similarly, the market capitalisation lost N52 billion to close...

The United States has stated that the $308 million Abacha loot which will soon be repatriated to Nigeria must be placed in an account and if the money is stolen from that account, Nigeria would be made to replace it. The Spokesperson for the US State Department, Morgan Ortagus, said...

The Nigerian Stock Exchange has organised a workshop on the legal and regulatory requirements of Derivatives trading for capital market operators on Tuesday, February 4, 2020. The workshop was organised in collaboration with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to guide market participants to properly interpret the approved Exchange traded...

The Senate on Tuesday considered a bill seeking to establish a National Agency for the Research and Management of Persons with Special Needs. The bill which scaled Second Reading on the floor during plenary was sponsored by Senator Betty Apiafi (PDP, Rivers West), and was read for the first time...

says no contradictions on Oyo LG crisis tells Adelabu, Dare to stop shopping for relevance   The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has been accused of desperation to cause chaos, derail governance and destroy the State with its orchestrated lawlessness and well-oiled falsehood over the local government dissolution....

  as Gov, PDP leaders extol former gov’s virtue at 69 Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, on Monday extolled the virtues of a former Governor of Osun State and former National Secretary of party, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, noting that the former Governor remained a strong pillar that is needed...

President  of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Tuesday inaugurated an adhoc committee of the Senate to look into the current security architecture of the country and recommend ways to improve on the present security situation. The senate had last week after exhaustive deliberations on the security  situation in the country...

The Federal Government on Tuesday sought the approval of Senate for concessionary external borrowing of 22.8 billion dollars for development of infrastructure across the country. Minister of Finance and National Planing, Mrs Zainab Ahmed made the presentation on behalf of the federal government, when she appeared before Senate Committee on...

A Consultant Clinical and Radiation Oncologist, Dr Antonia Sowunmi, says cancer is treatable and curable, if presented early by the sufferers at the NSIA-Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Cancer Treatment Centre in Lagos. Sowunmi, who works with LUTH, Idi-Araba, Lagos, spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday...