archiveJune 2020

  As at Monday, June 8, 2020, the total number of recorded cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria stood at 12,801 as the country recorded new 315 cases, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The NCDC announced this on Monday through its official Twitter handle, noting that as...

  Justice Mohammed Abubakar of the Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Friday, June 5, 2020, jailed sixteen internet fraudsters for criminal impersonation and possession of documents containing false pretences. The convicts, who are in their mid 20s, are: Ajibola Ibikunle; Victor Solomon Osahun;   Adeniyi Afeez Adebayo;...

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...