archiveJanuary 2021

The Lagos State government on Saturday extended the “work at home” directive to the state’s civil servants by two weeks. The state government had in December last year ordered the civil servants on Grade Level 14 and below to work from home till January 18 over the spike in COVID-19...

The opposition candidate in Uganda presidential election,  Bobi Wine, has accused the incumbent president, Yoweri Museveni, of fabricating the results of the election. He described the poll as the most fraudulent election in the history of Uganda and urged citizens to reject the results. Wine, a singer-turned-lawmaker, also said his...

 Uganda’s long-time president, Yoweri Museveni, has been re-elected with 58.64 per cent of the vote, according to the country’s electoral commission. The commission announced this on Saturday afternoon. Provisional Presidential results from di announcement from Uganda Electoral Commission on Saturday around 9:00 am showed that Museveni was leading. Election results from...

  The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) All-Share Index and Market Capitalization appreciated by 2.63 per cent to close the week at 41,176.14 and N21.530 trillion respectively. Similarly, all other indices finished higher with the exception of NSE Growth which depreciated by 3.32 per cent while the NSE ASeM Index closed...

Following the due diligence process, FMDQ Securities Exchange Limited (FMDQ Exchange), through its Board Listings and Markets Committee has approved the quotation of the Total Nigeria PLC ₦2.25 billion Series 1 and ₦12.75 billion Series 2 Commercial Papers under its ₦30.00 billion CP Issuance Programme and the Mixta Real Estate...

A former Guaranty Trust Bank staff, Onyekachi Nwosu has been convicted and sentenced to seven years imprisonment by a Federal High Court, Enugu, over fifty-million-naira (50,000,000.00) fraud. Justice R.O. Dugbo Oghoghorie found him guilty of abusing his position and using forged documents to induce his bank to grant a N50,000,000...

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) registered 1,867 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 107,345. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Friday. It noted that eight people also died from the virus in the last 24 hours, bringing the...

    The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) at the weekend said the nation’s inflation rate had risen from 14.89 per cent in November, 2020 to 15.75 per cent in December. The new rate contained in the data titled “Consumer Price Index December 2020” and posted on NBS’ website represents...

  Three international oil companies operating in Nigeria have sold their combined 45 per cent interest in Oil Mining Lease 17 and related assets in the Eastern Niger Delta to TNOG Oil and Gas Limited, an integrated energy company founded by Mr Tony Elumelu. Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria...

  The Federal Government on Thursday urged Nigerians to disregard the news circulating on the social media that it was contemplating another lockdown. Mr Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), also Chairman, Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, made clarification in a statement signed by Mr...