archiveAugust 2020

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it may respond to some of the issues raised by the Bayelsa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal when it is availed of the full judgment of the case. The INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus Okoye,...

Speaker of the House of Representatives Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila on Monday convened a meeting of some African Speakers of Parliaments where it was agreed that there is an urgent need to push for debt cancellation for the continent from their multilateral and bilateral partners. Gbajabiamila is also pushing to establish...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has warned Nigerians to beware of scammers posing as the centre to defraud them. NCDC said it was not giving money to people neither will it ask for money in exchange for employment. Mrs Elsie Ilori, the Head of Department, Surveillance and Epidemiology...

Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc said it would undertake a bond issuance in the next two months as part of a N70 billion programme to refinance existing debt, a group executive told Reuters on Monday. Anders Kristiansson, group chief finance officer, said the plan was intended at leveraging low market...

The Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) Garba Abubakar yesterday said the commission’s internally generated revenue (IGR) for 2017, 2018 and 2019 has hit N36billion. In a chat with The Nation in Abuja, he said reports by the some media houses that CAC made N56billion in two years is not true....

Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 says the August 29 resumption of international flights is tentative. The Coordinator, Dr. Sani Aliyu, said this on Monday, NAN reports. He said the date announced by Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika, would be for consideration of resumption of flights. Aliyu stressed that authorities must...

Governor Nyesome Wike of Rivers State has announced the reopening of worship centres in the state. He said that churches were free to now hold services with 50 per cent of their hall capacity provided the leadership would enforce wearing of face masks and washing of hands at the entrance...

Nigeria on Monday night recorded 417 new cases of Coronavirus around the country. In a tweet by the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC), the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria is now 49,485 with 36,834 patients discharged and 977 deaths recorded. This shows that the country is close...

  The Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mohammed Umar on Monday, August, 17, 2020, warned Designated Non-Financial Institutions, (DNFIs), across the country against un-reported suspicious transactions to appropriate government agencies.  According to him,  stiff  penalties  would be meted out to any erring DFNI in this regard. Umar...

*Our children must know where they are coming from… Vision is important, so too is memory” Though the reintroduction of history into the curriculum of primary and secondary schools across the country last year by the Federal Government received commendation from many, the decision was not just borne out of...