archiveSeptember 19, 2020

The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) on Saturday condemned the high rate of vote-trading in the Edo governorship election. CDD Director, Idayat Hassan, spoke at a press briefing in Abuja. The body released a preliminary report on the election. Hassan said reports that politicians, in an attempt to circumvent...

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday mourned victims of the motor accident on Akaeze-Ukwu River in Ebonyi State that claimed many lives on Friday night. His condolence message was contained in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, titled “President Buhari sympathises with Ebonyi...

Fourteen bodies have been recovered from the Akaeze-Ukwu River in Ebonyi state; site of the deadly motor accident which occurred on Friday night. This followed the location and recovery of the bus by divers brought in from neighboring states to aid in the search and rescue of the victims. The...

  Wife of Ondo State Governor, Mrs Betty Akeredolu, has commenced online registration of market women to ensure that they benefitted from the dividends of governance in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Akeredolu began the registration exercise on Saturday at Agagu market in Akure South...

  Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers on Saturday commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies for the peaceful conduct of Edo governorship election. Wike made the commendation while addressing journalists at Government House, Benin. He said: “For now I don’t have power to announce results, but from...

  gives cinemas, gyms go ahead to open on conditions orders structural integrity test on school buildings   The Lagos State Government has approved the full reopening of churches and mosques in the state even as it has given the go ahead for cinemas and gyms to reopen as soon...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has begun uploading the Edo governorship results from polling units on its online portal. The INEC Result Viewing Portal (IREV) is a dedicated public portal, that enable voters to view polling unit results real time as the voting ends on election day. Festus...

The 2020 Annual General Meeting of Financial Correspondents Association of Nigeria (FICAN) and swearing of new Exco/induction of new members took place today, Saturday, September 19, 2020. The events which followed Covid-19 safety protocols religiously had the outgoing exco members, incoming exco members, the electoral committee members and new members...

The Managing Director, Ecobank Nigeria, Patrick Akinwuntan has reiterated that the future of Nigerian banking would continue to be shaped by innovations and technology disruptions, stressing that only financial institutions that are amenable to such transformation will remain relevant in the sector. According to Akinwuntan, there was no way banks...

  A former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has said that promising people free and fair elections was not done with by ‘mere lip service’. He said such promise should be accompanied by commitment and should be demonstrated by “way of equal access and restriction to every stakeholder.” Atiku was responding...