archiveApril 15, 2020

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Wednesday published guidance on virtual Board, Committee, and Management Meetings for stakeholders. The guidance is in response to the shift from conventional physical meetings to virtual meetings precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the critical need to protect investors’ interests. It is one of...

Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has signed the Oyo State Agribusiness Development Agency (OYSADA) Bill into law. A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, indicated that the signing ceremony took place at the Government House, Agodi, Ibadan, the state capital. Speaking shortly...

President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Covid-19 to intensify efforts in contact tracing of those infected with the virus, to curb  community transmission. The president said this via a teleconference with members of the PTF on Covid-19 in Abuja on Wednesday. He also asked the...

Fire on Wednesday gutted the Headquarters of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in Abuja, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports. The incident, which occurred in the morning, hit the seven-storey building located in Maitama. The Registrar General of CAC, Abubakar Garba, who confirmed the incident, said no document was...

Mr Mele Kyari, Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC) says the Federal Government has made payment of over N200 billion to the power sector towards improving electricity supply. Kyari disclosed this while speaking with newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday shortly after a closed door meeting between the...

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday announced the death of another COVID-19 related patient, barely 24 hours after the sixth death was recorded. It also announced that 25 new cases were recorded, bringing the total confirmed cases in the state to 217. The State Ministry of Health made this known...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is thinking out plans aimed at rebooting the Nigerian economy, like many other economies world over, that have suffered disruptions as a result of  the COVID-19 pandemic. The CBN plans to reboot the nation’s economy is contained in a position paper titled: “Turning...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday called for a global moratorium on debt payments by African countries to help them cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. Macron told Radio France Internationale (RFI) that he hoped a virtual meeting later on Wednesday of finance ministers from the G20 group of countries could...

Gov Dapo Abiodun has declared that the state would be on total lockdown from Saturday April 18 for the next 14 days. The governor made the declaration in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Kunle Somorin, on Tuesday in Abeokuta. Gov. Abiodun urged the people of the state...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday night  announced additional  11 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Lagos State. This brings to 373, the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country. The NCDC made the  disclosure  in a tweet at 11.00p.m. on Tuesday. It said,...