archiveJuly 2021

  Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc (GTCO Plc) commemorated the listring of its shares on Nigerian Exchange (NGX) with a Closing Gong Ceremony on Tuesday, 13 July 2021. The event also featured the reveal of the company’s new brand identity to capital market stakeholders and members of the general public....

 The Senate on Tuesday at plenary session passed bills establishing three universities.The bills are Federal University of Science and Technology Lau, Taraba State, Federal University of Agriculture and Technology, Aboh, Delta State and City University of Technology Auchi, Edo State. The passage of the bills followed the consideration and adoption...

Rite Foods' contempt proceedings against the Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) and its managing director- Mathieu Seguin-came up for the first time on 12, July 2021 before Hon. Justice Allagoa of the Federal High Court, Lagos. During the proceedings, Rite Foods' counsel, Muyiwa Ogungbenro, informed the court that there are several...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Tuesday, re-arraigned a former governor of Kaduna State, Muktar Yero, before Justice M.G Umar of the Federal High Court, Kaduna, on eight-count amended charges of money laundering. Yero is being prosecuted by the EFCC alongside a former Minister of State for Power, Nuhu...

The Nigerian stock market ended trading on Tuesday on a cautious note with the capitalisation dropping by N1 billion to extend the negative sentiment to four trading sessions. Specifically, the market capitalisation lost one billion naira to close at N19.724 trillion in contrast with N19.723 trillion on Monday. Also, the...

... begins deliberations on final  report ....appreciates govt, NBA, police, others The Oyo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality and other related matters, also known as #EndSARS panel, on  Tuesday, concluded its public sittings on 163 cases brought before it. The panel had after Tuesday's sitting announced the...

    The Senate has received President Muhammadu Buhari’s submission of the 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper for consideration. The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday, made this known while reading an accompanying letter with the submission from the executive arm of government. President Buhari in...

A Civil Society Organisation, Media Initiative against Injustice, Violence and Corruption-MIIVOC says it has concluded arrangements with the management of the Federal Inland Revenue Services – FIRS to train key officials of the organization on the provisions and application of Nigeria’s Freedom of Information Act, 2011. MIIVOC’s Executive Director, Dr....

  President Muhammadu Buhari will tonight at 8pm meet with the 109 Senators of the National Assembly. The scheduled meeting between members of the upper chamber and President Buhari was conveyed in a letter received from the State House and read during plenary by President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan....

        The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of five nominees as Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission.   This was just as it rejected the nomination of Lauretta Onochie (Delta) and stepped down that of Prof. Sani Muhammad Adam (North Central) for further investigation by...