archiveAugust 23, 2021

  The value of the securities lending market of Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Limited has risen to N513Million as at 20 August 2021. According to NGX’s most recent report, there has been an uptick in stakeholders’ participation as 2.3 million units of MTNN valued at N395.6 million was borrowed. Securities lending...

   The Federal Ministry of Women Affairs (FMWA) says it is planning to collaborate with the media on dissemination of information on Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) at the grassroots. Mrs Friya Bulus, Director, Gender Affairs in the ministry, made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...

Ondo State Governor, Mr Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN), Monday stated that the ban on open grazing will be enforced when the law on the matter is finally put in place. Akeredolu said this when the newly posted Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Ene Okon, in charge of Zone 17, paid...

  *VP urges private sector to join advocacy for just global energy transition *Congratulates Sahara Group on 25th anniversary The passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, as well as Nigeria’s gas initiatives, will help transform Nigeria into a gas-based industrialized nation and also create a better-managed petroleum industry with more...

  The market indices of the nation’s bourse, opened trading for the week on Monday with a loss of 0.12 per cent, following sell pressure in Lafarge Africa and PZ Cussons.Specifically, the market capitalisation which opened at N20.571 trillion, lost N25 billion or 0.12 per cent to close at N20.546...

The incumbent caretaker secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Rasaq Salinsile, has been arraigned before an Osogbo Magistrates’ Court for conspiracy and assault. He was arraigned on Monday alongside six others including the chairman of the Osun Progressives, Lowo Adebiyi, Kazeem Salami, a former Commissioner for...

The Federal Government on Monday flagged-off the N-Power Batch C programme for one million beneficiaries in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Speaking during the exercise in Abuja during the flag off exercise, the minister, of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Umar Farouq,...

…says govt‘ll always go after criminals *Chief of Army Staff appreciates gov Oyo State Governor, ’Seyi Makinde, has pledged the continuous support of his administration to the Nigerian Army and other security agencies in the state. The governor, while receiving the new Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Farouk Yahaya,...

Chidi Ilogebe, Special Adviser on Students Affairs to Enugu State Governor, says no fewer than 135 indigenes of the state studying in University of Jos, Plateau, have been evacuated. Ilogebe disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Enugu. He said that the gesture by the state government became necessary...

Amnesty International has called on the Nigeria Police Force to release Gloria Okolie who was arrested on the allegation of being a member of the Eastern Security Network (ECN) controlled by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The 21-year-old was arrested in connection to the attacks on security formations...