archiveAugust 2020

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has partnered The Founder Institute (FI), the world’s largest pre-seed accelerator program, to birth new technology companies aimed at solving some of the nation’s challenges. Mrs Toki Mabogunje, President,LCCI made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos. Mabogunje said that...

Pentecostal Bishops Forum of the 19 Northern States (PBFNS) in Nigeria has called for immediate fortification of security arrangements in the entire Southern Kaduna communities. Archbishop John Praise, Founder, Dominion Chapel International Church and Chairman PBFNS, who made the call at a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja, said that...

Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, on Tuesday, presented a cash donation to the family of the late Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) member, Comrade Yemi Adeniran (Likedat). This came two months after the government gave an automatic employment to the wife of the deceased, Mrs. Yetunde Adeniran, at The Polytechnic...

The domestic bourse sustained losses on Tuesday with key market indices declining further by 0.58 per cent. Specifically, the All-Share Index which opened at 25,027.61 dropped 143.91 points or 0.58 per cent to close at 24,883.70. Consequently, the Month-to-Date gain moderated to +0.8 per cent while the Year-to-Date loss increased...

The Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday said it would include punishment for parents of cultists found guilty of cultism in the amendment of Anti-Cultism Law submitted by the state government. The House made the submission during plenary in Lagos after the Bill had scaled through the second reading...

Vladimir Putin is under severe attacks by scientists today for his ‘reckless and foolish’ claim that Russia has developed the world’s first effective COVID-19 vaccine, Daily Mail reports. Putin says the new COVID-19 vaccine offers “sustainable immunity” against Covid-19 and says his daughter has already been given the jab, with...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday commissioned the 13.65km Oshodi-Abule-Egba Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor, deployed additional 550 high and medium capacity buses on the road and launched the extended E-ticketing system. The governor said the 13.65 kilometre journey to Abule-Egba from Oshodi, which used to take over an...

President Muhammadu Buhari has queried security and intelligence chiefs on how possible it is for terrorists to have access to the arms they use despite the closure of the nation’s land borders. Speaking at a virtual meeting with State Governors and heads of security agencies coordinated from the Presidential Villa,...

Ondo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has inaugurated the South-West security network known as Operation Amotekun. At the inauguration of the security outfit at the Gani Fawehinmi Arcade in Akure, the state capital, on Tuesday, Akeredolu stressed that with a workable synergy among the leadership of the security agencies and that...

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) says it generates N3 billion revenue weekly from stamp duty collection. This stamp duty revenue is generated weekly from May 2020 to date from Deposit Money Banks (DMBs). Executive Chairman of the FIRS, Muhammad Nami told the House of Representatives Committee on finance on...