archiveMarch 15, 2021

Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has called on Nigeria to move towards more value addition to its resources by expanding its manufacturing scale. She insisted that more manufacturing of the country’s abundant raw materials will lead to more creation of jobs which will reduce the exportation...

  The governors of the 36 states in Nigeria, under the umbrella of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) will meet on Wednesday to discuss issues related to petrol subsidy and COVID-19 vaccines.The governors made the disclosure in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday by Mr Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, the Head,...

  Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Monday,  approved a 21-year jail term for convicted cultists in the state. Sanwo-Olu approved the jail term as he signed the bill for the Prohibition of Unlawful Societies and Cultism 2021 into Law at Lagos House, Ikeja. He also signed three other...

Nigeria’s unemployment rate rose to 33.3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2020 (Q4 2020) compared to 27.1 per cent in Q2, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Monday. This implies that 23.18 million persons of the country’s labour force either did nothing or worked for less than...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has dragged the Federal Government to court to challenge some provisions in the just gazetted Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020. In a statement on Monday by its General Secretary, Joseph Daramola, the Christian body said it was not comfortable with some provisions...

Ekiti State governor Kayode Fayemi on Monday presented a cheque for N7.4 million to victims of police brutality recommended for compensation by the judicial panel of inquiry in the state. The governor apologised to the victims for any brutality or damage suffered, saying that he hoped the compensation would help...

The Vatican on Monday revealed that the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions or marriage. The Vatican’s doctrinal office, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), in a statement said that priests and other Catholic ministers have been directed to desist from ordaining same-sex marriages adding that such blessings...

 More than 1.235 billion U.S. Dollars has been recorded by Libya as global revenues from sales of crude oil and its derivatives in February 2021, the Libyan National Oil Company (NOC) announced on Sunday.In a statement, the NOC said the funds were deposited in its account at the Libyan Foreign...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) says it has concluded all arrangements to commence the sale of 2021/2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) registration forms. The board disclosed this in its Vol. 2, No. 15 Weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar and made...

The Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) has declared war on foreign exchange (forex) speculators and black-market dealers for distorting the naira exchange rate against the dollar and other global currencies. Speaking during a virtual meeting with members of the Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of...