archiveJuly 16, 2021

    The Nigerian Exchange (NGX) closed trading on Friday with a growth of N42 billion due to renewed confidence. Specifically, the market capitalisation inched higher by N42 billion or 0.21 per cent to close at N19.771 trillion from N19.729 trillion recorded on Thursday. Also, the All-Share Index, which opened...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has adjusted the date of the commencement of physical registration for the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration from July 19 to July 26, because of the declaration of public holidays by the Federal Government. Disclosing this in a statement issued by Mr Festus Okoye,...

The Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Muhammad Nami, has urged tax authorities across West Africa to step up their efforts towards generating higher tax revenues for their respective countries in order to accelerate development in the sub-region. Nami gave the charge on Thursday in Abuja at the opening...

Lagos State Government has moved to make home ownership in the state easier as it has announced the up scaling of its housing delivery performance and subsidizing the cost of the homes. The government initiative is in response to the growing gap in housing demand in relation to the available...

A former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, said on Friday that he would participate in the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State despite his exclusion from the race by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Soludo, who was declared winner of the All Progressives...

  The body of Maj.-Gen. Hassan Ahmed, former Provost Marshal of the Nigeria Army who was killed on Thursday, has been buried in Abuja, the News Agency of Nigerian (NAN) reports. Ahmed was buried on Friday with full military colours and compliments at the Guards Brigade Cemetery, Lungi Barracks, Abuja,...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared a member of the House of Representatives, Chukwuma Michael Umeoji as the candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance in the Anambra State governorship election scheduled for November 6 as against the former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Charles...

The National Bureau of Statistics has revealed that Nigeria’s inflation rate fell slightly from 17.93 per cent in May to 17.75 per cent in June. The NBS said in its Consumer Price Index report for June that this showed 0.18 per cent fall in the inflation rate. According to NBS...

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has ordered television and radio stations in Nigeria not to divulge “details” of the activities of bandits, terrorists and kidnappers in their reports. The regulator specifically directed radio and television stations not to “glamourise the nefarious activities of insurgents” during their daily Newspaper Reviews. As...

Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue has advocated the retention of the Press Council Act in the Constitution. Ortom, who made the request on Friday during an interactive session with newsmen in Makurdi, said that under no guise should the Act be expunged from the constitution. “There is no basis gagging...