archiveMay 2021

Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Limited in collaboration with REDMoney Group hosted the 3rd edition of the Islamic Finance News (IFN) Nigeria Roadshow 2021 on Wednesday, 26 May 2021 with the Chief Executive Officer, NGX, Mr. Temi Popoola, CFA as Keynote Speaker. Themed, Systemic Restart: Islamic Finance in Nigeria, the forum served...

  The Lift Above Poverty Organisation (LAPO) says it has disbursed N5.56 billion as loans to rural farmers and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) between January and April this year. A statement by Mr Wisdom Abhulimen, Head of Advocacy and Communications of the organisation, said it was parts of the LAPO...

  Air Peace’s two brand new Embraer 195-E2 aircraft are currently operating test flights in preparation for deployment into service.Mr Stanley Olisa, the spokesperson for the airline, disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Lagos. Olisa said that one of the aircraft was flown empty from Lagos to Owerri,...

The former President of the National Youth Council of Nigeria Bello Shagari who is also a grandson of late former President Shehu Shagari, has reacted to the caution issued by the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) to the Senate not to allow surreptitious introduction of Sharia into the South West...

Amnesty International on Thursday accused Nigerian leaders from 1967 till date of complicit in human rights violation and accused of allowing perpetrators to practically walk away. Celebrating 54th anniversary of its operations in Nigeria, the body disclosed in a statement on Thursday that it was poised to expand its agenda...

The pan-Yoruba sociopolitical group, Afenifere, has maintained that only the adoption of the 2014 national conference and restructuring of Nigeria can help to address all the ongoing agitations in the country, and not the review of the existing constitution as being worked upon by the National Assembly. The organisation faulted...

  The House of Representatives has summoned the Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Godwin Emefiele, to provide details of recovered loot. The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, recently told President Muhammadu Buhari to explain to Nigerians what he did with recovered loot, urging anti-corruption agencies to be transparent. The...

Unknown gunmen at about 2 am Friday morning allegedly attacked Umutu Police Divisional Headquarters in Ukwuani Local Government Area of Delta State. DAILY POST reported that it gathered that the police station was not burnt down but the gunmen succeeded in killing two Police constables who were on duty at...

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has intensified calls for the restructuring of Nigeria to prevent the disintegration of the country, stressing that the Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution has caged many Nigerians. The President-General of the group, Prof George Obiozor, who made the call on Thursday at the second day...

National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has ordered the suspension of the broadcast licence of the chief executive officer of Human Rights Radio and popular host of the Brekete Family Programme, Mr Ahmed Isah for assaulting a guest. The commission said the suspension is in line with the sanction provisions in 15.5.2...