archiveJune 5, 2020

The government of Oyo State and the Oyo State Police Command have vowed to work harmoniously to ensure the arrest of killers of a pregnant woman, Azeezat Shomuyiwa and an 18-year-old student of Federal College of Animal Health and Production, Barakat Bello, who was raped and killed in Akinyele Local...

  The Senate on Wednesday successfully screened two nominees of President Muhammadu Buhari as Non-Executive Directors to the NDIC Board Ms. Diana Okonta and HajiyaYa’anaYaro.. During the exercise, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, Senator Uba Sani commended the President for the nomination of...

Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde, on Friday, flagged off the construction of the office complex for the Local Government Service Commission and Local Government Pension Board, noting that those opposed to the project would be silenced when they see the outcome. Governor Makinde, who maintained that the state...

  Following the recent spike in the cases of COVID-19 in Ondo State, the state government on Friday, threatened to order another round of lockdown across the state. While stating that the state might be forced to lock down if the people continue to ignore the measures put in place...

The President  Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, reappointed Umar Danbatta as the Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). In a press statement released by the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, the minister, Isa Pantami, said the reappointment was in line with the NCC Act 2003. He charged Danbatta to...

Profit taking was persistent on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday with investors net worth dropping further by N155 billion. Specifically, the market capitalisation dipped N155 billion or 1.17 per cent to close at N13.049 trillion compared with N13.204 trillion achieved on Thursday. Also, the All-Share Index which opened...

  The Nigerian Stock Exchange ( NSE) is set to host a special webinar on the impact of COVID-19 on the global capital market and the resilience of securities exchanges in supporting economies, on Wednesday, June 10, 2020. The webinar themed, “Capital Markets in a Pandemic”, will feature a panel...

The mayor of the U.S. capital city, Washington, has formally asked President Donald Trump to remove federal forces from the district. The forces were deployed amid protests over police brutality, which in some instances descended into rioting. Mayor Muriel Bowser noted in her letter to the president that there were...

  The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed that 42 per cent of the respondents to its survey on the newly released COVID-19 Impact Monitoring report were not currently working due to the coronavirus outbreak. NBS noted that the survey was carried out from 20th April to 11th May...

A Leader, Centre for Open Data Research, Dr Patrick Enaholo, has urged Nigerian journalists to embrace Data Journalism to enhance their reporting, particularly on issues like health, nutrition and wellness reports. Enaholo made the call at an online programme tagged: “Advancing Nutrition, Health and Wellness through the Media’, organised by...