archiveAugust 21, 2020

Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development disclosed on Friday that over nine million school pupils were currently benefiting from the federal government’s homegrown school feeding programme. The pupils who are in 34 states of the country and the FCT are said to be fed by over 100,000...

  The Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS) has gone into partnership with five frontline professional bodies to float an umbrella body known as the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment of Nigeria (CISI) for capital market growth. Mr Olatunde Amolegbe, President, CIS, said this in a statement made available to...

  By Pedro Azuogu Both the American Heritage Dictionary (1981) and the Webster’s Comprehensive Dictionary (2010) described corruption as an act of being corrupt. Corruption derives it’s meaning from the Latin word corruptus which in itself means tainted, decomposed, putrid, perverted, depraved, deteriorated, debased, dishonest, contaminated, corroded, impure, degenerated, polluted...

The Nigerian Senate Joint Committee on Finance and National Planning currently discussing 2021-2023 MTEF-FSP said it has discovered financial fraud running into billions of Naira in the Joint Venture arrangement between State-owned television, the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and a Chinese Satellite Pay TV, StarTimes. The fraud came to the...

The Port Harcourt zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arraigned one Kingsley Odum before Justice I. M. Sani of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, Rivers State for land fraud. He was docked on one-count charge of obtaining money by false pretence to the tune...

  The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday moved 158.62 million shares worth N1.75 billion exchanged in 3,194 deals. This was in contrast with 179.55 million shares valued at N2.53 billion achieved in 3,055 deals on Thursday. An analysis of the activity chart indicates that Zenith Bank was the toast...

Gov. Godwin Obasekiof Edo and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in  the Sept. 19 governorship election has appealed to supporters of the party to re-elect the present administration for continuity of its people-oriented programmes Obaseki made the appeal at Ogwa, ward 1, in Esan West Local Government Area, when...

  The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Mr Paul Usoro, has defended the association’s decision to withdraw the invitation earlier issued to the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, to be a guest speaker at its Annual General Conference. Usoro, on Friday, also denied the allegation of ethnic...

The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN) on Friday said it had lost over N6billion in the course of the lockdown caused by the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic. Mr Patrick Lee, the Chairman of the Assocation, disclosed this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. He...

The Nigeria Police Force on Friday invited a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, to its Abuja office on Monday. The police probe comes despite a separate investigation of the former CBN governor by the Department of State Services (DSS). The DSS had...