archiveMay 4, 2021

A bill seeking to give legal backing to the establishment of the Chatered Institute of Directors of Nigeria scaled second reading during plenary on Tuesday. The bill was sponsored by the Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi (APC, Kebbi North). Abdullahi, while leading debate on the bill, said the Institute of Directors...

  The Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning is to interface with the Nigerian Army on improved funding for security operations in the country.Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed said this during an interactive meeting in Abuja with Senate Committee on Army and representatives of Chief...

The Senate, on Tuesday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari, to provide a five-year post COVID-19 special intervention programme for Nigerians living with various types of disabilities. This was just as it urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), through the NIRSAL Micro Finance Bank, to provide  Special Loan facilities to Persons with...

  The United Nations has disclosed that no fewer than 22,000 Nigerian children get infected with HIV annually.The UN system made the statement on Tuesday, at the National dialogue meeting for  the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in Nigeria otherwise known as vertical transmission of HIV. Speaking...

The Senate has considered a bill seeking to establish the Federal College of Education, Gwoza, Borno State.   The bill which scaled second reading on Tuesday during plenary is sponsored by Senator Ali Ndume (APC, Borno South).   Leading debate on the bill, Ndume said the intent behind the establishment...

  seeks end to indiscriminate firing, retrenchment of workers by employers The Senate, on Tuesday, moved to strengthen labour institutions in the country when it considered the Labour Institutions (Establishment) Bill, 2021. The bill which scaled second reading on the floor during plenary, seeks to, among others, address the indiscriminate...

The Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, has dismissed an application filed by a suspected fraudster, Nelson Emuobosa Omo-Ode, challenging the ruling of the Special Offences Court, Ikeja, Lagos denying him bail. Omo-Ode, a 34-year-old Business Administration graduate of the Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan College, Malaysia, was arrested on July 18, 2019...

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday disclosed that the Service Chiefs and Heads of Security Agencies would, on Thursday, appear before the Upper Chamber to brief it on efforts to address the spate of insecurity in the country. Lawan made the disclosure in an announcement during the commencement...

Heritage Bank has continually fulfilled its promises to support the Nigerian Creative Industry, as millionaires emerged from the YNSPYRE product in collaboration with the CREAM Platform. The YNSPYRE account holders who subscribed to the platform by dialing *745*463# on all networks won over N12million during the second monthly raffle draw...

 The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has decried the low participation of the South-East in its economic intervention policies and programmes.The acting Director, Corporate Communications Department of the bank, Mr Osita Nwanisobi, disclosed this on Tuesday during the CBN Fair in Enugu. Nwanisobi said that the CBN intervention programmes were...