archiveAugust 26, 2020

 The bulls continued to dominate trading on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Wednesday with the key market indices improving further by 0.15 per cent. Specifically, the NSE All-Share Index which opened at 25,291.73 inched higher by 38.37 points or 0.15 per cent to close at 25,330.10. Also, the market...

 The President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina says  141 million people have benefitted from improved agricultural technologies to enhance food security in the last five years he assumed office. Adesina made this known during the opening of the bank’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) held virtually on Wednesday....

  The Federal Executive Council has approved N722.3 million for the forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, disclosed this on Wednesday after the virtual  Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari. According to Akpabio, the field...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State appointed to head the 145-member Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national campaign council for the upcoming Ondo State gubernatorial election. The National Working Committee (NWC) of the party has approved the composition of the council made up of 145 party members including all state governors...

Former Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that he regretted the verbal attack on a Daily Trust reporter Eyo Charles at a press briefing in Calabar. According to him, “I met with my advisors I wish to say the following. I hereby withdraw the word “stupid” which I...

 Billionaire philanthropists Bill Gates and Aliko Dangote have hailed the declaration of Nigeria by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as being polio-free. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the global health body on Tuesday certified Nigeria and the rest of Africa polio-free. The WHO Africa Regional Certification Commission...

Dr Qasim Akinreti, Chairman, Lagos State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), has said that the Federal Government promised to provide incentives for the media industry to cushions the effect of COVID-19. Akinreti made this known on Tuesday in Lagos while briefing journalists on the state of the Nigerian...

The management of Media Trust Limited, publishers of Daily Trust and other titles, has expressed anger over the attack on its reporter, Eyo Charles by Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation. Daily Trust said should anything happen to its reporters, Fani-Kayode would be held responsible. The newspaper condemned what...

NOBEL laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has urged the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) to put off its planned 50th anniversary of his prison memoir, titled: The Man Died. In a statement on Tuesday to the national executive of the association, Soyinka said: “For the avoidance of any doubt, I wish...

The deposit money banks (DMBs) providing bank guarantees to Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) Plc and the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on behalf of the Electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) has been directed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to take full responsibility for collections of the Discos’ bills....