archiveJuly 24, 2020

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has given assurance that the Senate will ensure that every part of Nigeria will continue to receive a just and fair deal. "I want to assure you that the Senate will always stand by National interest" Lawan told a delegation of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo,...

The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) on Friday confirmed the receipt of applications for licences of four companies to transact insurance business in Nigeria. The companies are; Heir Insurance Ltd. (General); Stanbic IBTC Insurance Ltd; Heirs Life Assurance Ltd.; and Enterprise Life Assurance Company Nigeria Ltd.. The commission made the confirmation...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met with Gov. Mai Mala Buni of Yobe and the immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, at the State House, Abuja. Speaking to State House correspondents after the closed door meeting, Buni, who is also the Chairman of APC Caretaker/National...

Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, on Friday, inaugurated the state Community Policing Advisory Committee. Makinde said at the inauguration that it would deepen the security architecture in the state, thereby nipping insecurity issues in the bud. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that community policing is an initiative...

Trading on the nation’s bourse returned to the negative territory on Friday with key market indices declining by 0.35 per cent. Specifically, the All-Share Index (ASI) dipped 85.04 points to close at 24,427.73 compared with 24,512.77 achieved on Thursday. In the same vein, the market capitalisation of listed equities lost...

The 2020/2021 English Premier League (EPL) season will begin on Sept. 12 and the final round of matches will be held on May 23, the league announced on Friday. The new season, originally scheduled to begin on Aug. 8, has been delayed this year after the Premier League suspended the...

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Oyo State says its attention has been drawn to a viral video of a female ex-corps member arrested by security operatives at the resident of a suspected armed robber/kidnapper in Ibadan. The state NYSC Coordinator, Mrs Grace Ogbuogebe, said in a statement on...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says there is a 23 per cent increase in the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Africa in the past week. WHO disclosed this in a weekly COVID-19 Situation update for WHO Africa Region, External Situation Report 21, posted on its Twitter account. According...

Seyitan Babatayo, a lady, who accused Nigerian musician, Oladapo Oyebanjo widely known as D’Banj, of rape has written a letter to the police withdrawing her petition. It will be recalled that Seyitan had in June accused D’banj of raping her in a hotel on December 30, 2018. In a letter...

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari over alleged cases of corruption in federal agencies. National chairman of the opposition party, Prince Uche Secondus, made the call in a media parley in Abuja on Friday. He cited ongoing corruption investigations of the NDDC, MIC, NEDC,...