archiveSeptember 3, 2020

Lagos State Government has dismantled an illegal slaughter in the Oke Rube axis of Alimosho Local Government Area of the state. The state Acting Commissioner for Agriculture, Messrs Abisola Olusanya, who led the operation on Thursday, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the team arrested 10 butchers and...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has granted approval to four agro-processing companies to import 262,000 tons of maize and corn in the bid to complement an anticipated shortfall of the commodity in the country. According Premium Times, this was disclosed in an internal memo of the Nigeria Customs dated...

...approves conversion of isolation centres to PHCs …as Aawe isolation centre reverts to PHC The Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force, headed by Governor Seyi Makinde, has announced the cancellation of the 10 p.m. curfew imposed on the state in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. A statement by the Chief...

The Trade Union Congress (TUC) of Nigeria has condemned the increase in petrol price and electricity tariff in the country. The TUC expressed disappointment on Thursday in a statement titled, ‘Killing the dead,’ and signed by its president, Quadri Olaleye, and Secretary-General, Musa-Lawal Ozigi. It said, “For the umpteenth time,...

Lionel Messi’s father and agent met Barcelona Club President Josep Maria Bartomeu on Wednesday to discuss the player’s wish to leave the club but the talks ended in stalemate, Spanish media reported. Earlier, Jorge Messi said it would be “difficult” for his son to remain with Barcelona, the only club...

    The University of Ibadan (UI), Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo and the University of Lagos (UNILAG) have been ranked first, second and third in that order in Nigeria by the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Ranking in its latest report released on Wednesday. Covenant University, Ota; the...

  Leaders of lawyers’ groups from the northern part of the country have rejected the new ‘Nigerian Bar Association’ splinter group formed by lawyers of Northern extraction who claimed to be of like minds. The leaders of the lawyers from the northern part of the country met on Wednesday with...

  The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said  that agricultural exports out of Nigeria dropped by 38.2 per cent in the second quarter (Q2) of this year, compared to the first quarter  (Q1) but rose by 6.3 per cent year-on-year while goods imported to Nigeria rose in value by...

The Director-General of the Debt Management Office (DMO), Mrs Patience Oniha has revealed that Nigerian government’s borrowings derive from perennial budget deficits, stressing that the country’s economic crisis had made borrowing unavoidable. Oniha noted that even the governments of advanced economies borrow, adding that appropriate deployment of the borrowed fund...