archiveMay 27, 2020

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) reopened trading on Wednesday after the public holidays to mark the Eid-el- Fitr celebration with a marginal growth of 0.07 per cent. Speficially, the All-Share Index rose by 16.48 points or 0.07 per cent to close at 25,221.23 compared with 25,204.75 achieved on Friday. Similarly,...

  The Lagos State Government on Wednesday promised to deliver the Agege flyover bridge in September to tackle gridlock on the axis. Mrs Aramide Adeyoye, Special Adviser to Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu said this during the year 2020 ministerial press briefing to commemorate first year anniversary of the governor in office....

kickstarts distribution of seedlings to 10,000 farmers Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, on Wednesday, kicked off the celebration of his administration's first year in office with the inauguration of Police Mobile Squadron in Ago-Are and distribution of 10,000 seedings to farmers in Iseyin. The governor, who spoke at different...

  Dr. Olisa Agbakoba has written a letter to the Attorney General of the Federation Abubakar Malami welcoming recent signing of the Executive Order 10 by President Mohammadu Buhari The Letter was  tiled RE: “Executive Order 10 on Implementation of Financial Autonomy for the State Legislature and State Judiciary and...

Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has announced the  abolition of Almajiri system for life in the state. Ganduje disclosed this while briefing the media on the state of the COVID-19 in Kano on Wednesday, insisted that the system of Almajiri system has been totally abolished in the state. The...

  Lagos State government has said that the Oshodi to Abule Egba Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route have been completed and operation would commence on that route by July 2020. The Commissioner for Transport, Mr Frederic Oladeinde, disclosed this at the ongoing Year2020 ministerial press briefing by the Lagos government...

  The Lagos State Government has discharged 87 additional COVID-19 patients from its isolation centres, bringing to 825 the total number of successfully treated persons in the state. Announcing this Wednesday, the Incident Commander on COVID-19 in Lagos State, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said 47 of the discharged patients were males...

In spite United States’ call for an independent probe of the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina, the AfDB president has maintained that he is innocent. US Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, in a May 22 communication to the bank said the Treasury disagrees with the findings...

  The Federal Government will issue guidelines for the reopening of schools nationwide and has therefore urged state local governments, school proprietors and other stakeholders to begin to take steps to facilitate it. Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 pandemic and Secretary to the Government of the Federation...

  The Governor of Ondo State, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has ordered the resumption of religious activities in the state Governor Akeredolu gave the order on Wednesday in Akure, Ondo State, during the weekly media briefing on COVID-19 in the state. The state, he said, has recorded its second COVID-19 related death,...