archiveFebruary 19, 2021

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has called for peace among all ethnic, tribal and religious groups in Nigeria. Tinubu made the call on Friday, during the Eighth-Day Fidau Prayer for the late Alhaji Lateef Jakande, the first Civilian Governor of Lagos State. He...

  The Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG)has advised the Federal Government to take tough but necessary policy choices, to be able to improve on its revenue and reduce its dependence on foreign and local debt to fund budget deficit. Mr Laoye Jaiyeola, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NESG, gave that...

  Germany is donating an additional 1.5 billion euros ($1.8 billion) to boost the rollout of vaccines in the world’s poorest countries, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said Friday, increasing an earlier contribution of 600 million euros. “Today we want to make clear: we stand with the poorest countries. Germany is...

Odua Peoples Congress (OPC), Agbekoya, Hunters Group, Isokan Ile Yoruba, Vigilante Group of Nigeria, Ibarapa Group, and Community Society Awareness Initiative have expressed readiness to defend Yorubaland against invasion by killer herdsmen. In a communique issued after their meeting on Friday in Lagos, the groups, under the aegis of South-West...

Some facemasks vendors in Kaduna metropolis have expressed worry on the decline in the patronage of the item, stressing that the dwindling in sales had forced them out of the market. Checks conducted on Friday by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna showed that a number of vendors,...

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday moved 307.79 million shares valued at N2.91 billion exchanged in 4,393 deals. This was in contrast with 426.27 million shares worth N4.75 billion traded in 4,972 deals on Thursday, a decrease of 27.79 per cent. An analysis of the activity chart indicates that...

  Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has alleged on Friday that there is a “strange incestuous relationship between government and abductors.” which has enabled the abduction industry to flourish. Ezekwesili wrote on her Twitter handle: “There’s now an industry of abduction flourishing on basic market principles of demand and...

Kwara on Friday directed an immediate, but temporary closure of some grant-aided schools in Ilorin pending the resolution of a Hijab controversy in the schools. Mrs Kemi Adeosun,  Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, said in a statement that affected schools are the Cherubim and Seraphim (C&S)...

The Federal High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, has ordered the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) to provide pre-paid meters to all its consumers in the town. Justice Babs Kuewumi gave the order while delivering judgment in a suit with number FHC/AD/CS/03/2019 on Friday in Ado-Ekiti, the News Agency of Nigeria,...

Ekiti State Government says it will continue to partner the Federal Government and corporate agencies to facilitate growth opportunities for businesses in the state Mr Muyiwa Olumilua, the state Commissioner for Investment, Trade and Industry, made the promise in Ado Ekiti on Friday at the opening of a one-day sensitisation...