archiveMay 27, 2020

    Nigeria has been warned that the nation’s economy will be bisected with currency devaluation amidst other economic challenges due to economic contraption occasioned by the global coronavirus pandemic,. The adverse effect of the global pandemic will also have drastic impact on the banking sector due to their huge...

Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei, acting Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) revealed on Tuesday that the commission’s 2019 budget was inflated with over 500 non-existing projects. Pondei made the disclosure on Tuesday while addressing newsmen in Port Harcourt while making clarifications on allegations of corruption levelled against the Interim Management...

A total of 875 people have committed suicide during the lockdown period in Nepal. The country has been under lockdown, against the novel coronavirus disease, since March 24. According to the data compiled by the Nepal Police, the suicide cases, across the country, increased by 16 per cent in the...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has appointed the internationally acclaimed and award-winning Nigerian musician, producer and songwriter, Cobhams Asuquo, as its National Ambassador. UNICEF Nigeria Representative, Mr Peter Hawkins, announced the appointment in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna on Wednesday. Hawkins...

  As against the decision of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to suspend clinical trials of Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) will continue the experiment in Nigeria, the agency’s Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, has said. She...

Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday told Nigerian government to urgently address its failure to protect and provide education to an entire generation of children in the Northeast. A 91-page report released  by the body said the region has been devastated by “years of Boko Haram atrocities and gross violations by...

The Presidency has said reports alleging that President Muhammadu Buhari is probing his former Chief of Staff, the late Abba Kyari, by cancelling 150 appointments and memos signed off by him were not true. “Not surprisingly, these reports have quoted unnamed sources. There is not a grain of truth in...

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in collaboration with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has launched the Nigeria2Equal Programme with an inaugural seminar on Monday, 25 May 2020. T he virtual seminar, themed, “Gender Implications of COVID-19: Supporting Women as Employees in the New Normal” highlighted the differential socioeconomic impacts the...

  Olori Janet Afolabi, Queen of Apomuland and Publisher of Scroll Report online magazine, has donated 100 face masks to Government Special School for the Blind, Ikere Ekiti in Ekiti State. The school Principal, Omojala Adewale, received the face masks from Mercy Aderiyi, who volunteered to deliver them. Olori Afolabi...

says APC’s criticism incoherent double speak An Oyo State-based socio-political organisation, Oyo Kajola Group (OKG) has described the approval of N22.5billion loan by the State House of Assembly as a thoughtful and people-centred decision. The group said that the approval of the loan application for the government of Oyo State...