archiveMarch 2020

The Nigerian American Business Forum (NABF), a group of U.S-Based accomplished Nigerian professionals, has announced plans to attract an estimated four billion dollars investment into the Nigerian economy in the next two years. The President of the forum, Mr Kenneth Shobola, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said the...

  Eminent religious leaders from the South-East and South-South have called for urgent end to insurgency and banditry, along with the wanton destruction of innocent lives and valuable property in Nigeria. The call was contained in a 12-point communique issued in Umuahia by the clergymen at the end of their...

  The African Centre for Education Development has urged stakeholders in the education sector to demand for an increase in the budgetary allocation for enhanced quality of education in the country. The appeal was contained in a communiqué issued on Monday at the end of the first Universities Summit on...

If things go according to plans, the Supreme Court will today rule on the application filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate in Imo State Chief Emeka Ihedioha, against the Governor Hope Uzodinma and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). The application was shifted by...

The University of Lagos, Akoka has offered employment to no fewer than 100 graduates of the university, who made first class in various fields of studies in the university. The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, made the disclosure at a pre convocation news conference on Monday in Lagos....

Says Longjan’s legacy will continue to unite Nigerians   President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has called on religious leaders in the country to pray for Nigeria and its leadership, saying that the country will eventually overcome its tribulations. Lawan stated this in a speech delivered at the funeral mass...

    L-R: Governor of Sokoto State, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal; General Manager & Divisional Head, Operations, Fidelity Bank PLC, Martins Izuogbe; Founder, Silverbird Group, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce; Executive Director, Corporate Bank, Fidelity Bank PLC, Obaro Odeghe; and Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki at the 2019 Silverbird Man of...

VP chairs review panel to develop strategies A clear cut set of strategies to curb and curtail the proliferation of small and light weapons would be developed soon, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Prof. Osinbajo hinted this at a meeting he held this morning with top security chiefs...

Following the outbreak of Coronavirus in some parts of the world, Bureau de Change operators in Kaduna have expressed concern over low patronage since the outbreak of the disease. Some of the operators said in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) on Monday in Kaduna that...

  The Federal Government has offered for subscription two-year savings bond at 4.131 per cent and three-year savings bond at 5.131 per cent per annum, the Debt Management Office (DMO) has said. According to the offer circular obtained from the DMO website on Monday, the two-year bond will be due...