archiveJune 2021

L – R shows Aliyu Ahmed, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning; Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, Honourable Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning and Mr. Temi Popoola, CFA, Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Limited during a courtesy visit to the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget...

Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has debunked reports that he was quizzed or invited for questioning by the Department of State Security Service (DSS) over his remarks against the military. Speaking to Channels Television after presiding over a Jummat service at the Sultan Bello Mosque in Kaduna State on...

Justice Aisha Kumaliya of Borno State High Court has closed the defence of Aisha Alkali Wakil popularly known as ‘Mama-Boko Haram’ following her refusal to speak in response to questions and issues raised by the court under the guise that she is severely ill. She had informed the court through...

  Coronation Insurance Plc has posted a profit after tax of N648.24 million for the first quarter ended March 31, 2021.This is contained in the company’s unaudited financial statement released by the Nigerian Exchange Ltd on Friday in Lagos. The profit after tax represented a growth of 79.44 per cent...

tasks President on fixing Nigerian hospitals The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to come clean on the real reason he rescheduled his medical trip to London at the last-minute. The party’s position is amidst increasing international disapproval to the escalated human right violations, constitutional breaches, clampdown...

Maintaining the position that the funding for gas and fossil fuel projects in Nigeria and other developing countries be sustained during the global transition to net-zero emissions, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has said Nigeria will continue its frontline advocacy for a just transition. He also asserted that Nigeria will...

Mr Daniel Danladi, an Investigating Officer with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Friday narrated  how two businessmen allegedly used forged Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) documents to defraud a Kuwaiti businessman of $4.8 million. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Daniel testified during the trial...

Over 14.3 million people in Nigeria used different kinds of drugs in the year 2020, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in its “World Drug Report 2021” published globally on Thursday. The report stated that from UNODC’s Drug Use Survey in Nigeria, 14.3 million people used...

 In a bid to electrify some riverine communities in Ondo State, oil giants, NNPC and Chevron in partnership with Ilaje Rural Development Committee (IRDC) have inaugurated a solar power electricity. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the communities are Awoye and Odofado in Ilaje Local Government Area (LGA)...

President Muhammadu Buhari has postponed his earlier scheduled medical trip to the United Kingdom. It would be recalled that on Thursday, the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, had announced Friday (today) as the date for the president’s trip. In another statement on Friday, the presidential...