archiveAugust 4, 2021

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved contracts worth $1.4 billion for the rehabilitation of the Warri and Kaduna refineries. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the...

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday said that the national leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Bola Tinubu, “is hale and hearty.” Sanwo-Olu made this known while speaking with journalists in Lagos following his visit to the APC leader in London, United Kingdom, on Tuesday. The social...

    Lawyer to Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS) Idowu Awo on Wednesday opposed the application for bail for four out of the 12 persons arrested in the residence of Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Igboho on 1 July. The DSS had arrested the persons described as...

  An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan has restrained the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) from arresting and blocking the account of Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho. Justice Ladiran Akintola gave the order on Wednesday after listening...

  The Corporate  Affairs  Commission (CAC) has disclosed that Nigerian lawyers, accountants, and chartered secretaries present forged documents to the Commission during registrations. The CAC registrar general Mr. Garba Abubakar who disclosed this on Wednesday, urged them and other stakeholders to avoid sharp practices while dealing with the commission. Abubakar...

  As the more contagious delta variant of the coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads acros  the country, a total of 505 new cases were recorded on Tuesday in Nigeria. The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC), which made this known via its verified website on Wednesday morning, put the country’s COVID-19 toll...

..we'll resolve our differences soon, gov says ...Makinde doing well in governance, we're proud of him- Saraki Oyo State governor, 'Seyi Makinde, said on Tuesday that he would address all grievances within the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with a view to making the party more formidable...

    Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday had a meeting with the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu in London. Details of the meeting are still unknown but it is believed to be connected to stories making the rounds regarding the health status of...

Stanbic IBTC bank’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) report has revealed that Nigeria’s private sector began the second half of the year on a positive footing as they continued the run of expansion that began in July 2020. The report released on Monday said that the headline PMI rose in July...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is out with guidelines for licensing and regulation of payments system holding companies (PSHC) even as stated that companies must exist as non-operating entities in the ecosystem. The new guideline is a follow-up to an earlier template on new license categorisation, which required companies...