archiveNovember 3, 2020

The Imo State Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Police Brutality and Related Extra Judicial Killings has frowned at the poor turn out of petitions by the people of the state who have suffered brutality in the hands of the police. Chairman of the commission, Justice Florence Duruoha-Igwe, who disclosed that...

  After heady second- and third-quarter issuance volumes, S & P Global Ratings has estimated that the pace of global bond issuance to slow through the end of the year, but the full-year total will increase by about 16 per cent on the value in 2019. In its latest analysis...

  Nigeria’s diaspora remittances could fall by $2 billion or 8.4% to $21.7 billion in 2020 relative to the $23.8 billion recorded in 2019, the World Bank Group has said. The Washington-based lender, in a 40-page report titled ‘Migration and Development Brief 33’ issued on Monday, attributed the potential drop...

  The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s several initiatives targeted at jobs for the youths and alleviating poverty among women and vulnerable groups remain the best in the history of the country. He stated this in Kaduna at a meeting of...

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu has approved the posting of Deputy Inspector General of Police, DIG Sanusi N. Lemu, and Assistant Inspector-General of Police, AIG Usman Alkali Baba, to be in charge of the Department of Operations and Department of Finance and Administration, respectively. According to a statement...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that consumers’ confidence dipped in the third quarter as consumers were pessimistic in their outlook. The index which was -21.2 point was 25.0 points lower than the index in the corresponding period of 2019. This was attributed un-favourable outlook to declining...

    Former Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial district and Human Rights Activist, Shehu Sani, has rebuked the Northern Governors for calling for the censorship of social media. Sani made his view known via a tweet on his official Twitter account @ShehuSani, on Tuesday. It would be recalled that on...

  There is ‘no-fly list’ of youths who participated in the #ENDSARS protests, the Federal Government has stated. The Federal Ministry of Interior stated this in a tweet on Tuesday in reaction to a media report by an online publication. @MinOfInteriorNG tweeted: “The Ministry of Interior did not, has not...

The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 72 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC made this known on its verified website on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Nigeria has continued to report new cases of infections on a daily...

  One of the participants in the #EndSARS protests and co-convener of #BringBackOurGirls advocacy group, Aisha Yesufu, has expressed happiness over the tenacity and resilience of Nigerian youth who protested against police brutality and extrajudicial killings in the country. She said she was proud of the protesters for not giving...