archiveSeptember 1, 2021

The Presidency on Wednesday accused the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) of stockpiling substantial arms and ammunition to wreak havoc across the country. The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, to the President, Garba Shehu, in a statement titled: “Why Amnesty entreaties should be ignored.” He blasted the rights...

  Justice Tijanni Garba Ringim of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday, September 1, 2021, ordered the interim forfeiture of the sum of N5, 318,517,789.48 found in the account of a company, Kaiser Strategic Services Limited. Justice Ringim gave the order, following an ex parte application...

  Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) reiterates its commitment to leverage technology to digitize securities investment and other market related transactions. The Chief Executive Officer, NGX, Temi Popoola, disclosed this during the Business Morning Show on Channels Television on Tuesday. Popoola who spoke on the journey of the Exchange in 60...

The Federal Government will soon begin the rehabilitation of the failed portions of Lagos-Sango-Abeokuta federal highway. This followed the intervention by Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun. Works and Housing Minister Babatunde Fashola spoke yesterday during a teleconference between the governor and the minister’s team. A statement by the governor’s Chief...

The negative trend on Nigerian bourse continued on Wednesday as the All-Share Index dropped 0.09 per cent,translating to year-to-date drop of 2.7 per cent. Profit-taking in the shares of Honeywell Flour, Nigerian Breweries, UACN and Dangote Sugar were majorly responsible for the market slide on Wednesday The day trading transactions...

•As council okays draft national policy on IDPs The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved about N89.6 billion worth of contracts for award under the ministries of Works and Housing as well as Aviation. The council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari approved for the Ministry of Works...

As part of activities lined up to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the creation of Osun State, the government, Wednesday, listed former governor of the state, Chief Adebisi Akande, Pastor Enoch Adeboye (General Overseer, RCCG worldwide), Sheikh Abdur’rasheed Hadiyatulla (President, Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria), and former Chief of...

  Experts in the power sector have called on the newly-appointed Minister of Power, Mr Abubakar Aliyu, to do everything possible to address the crisis in the power sector. The experts spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) shortly after President Muhammadu Buhari removed Mr Saleh Mamman as the...

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the Minister of Agriculture, Mohammed Nanono and his Power counterpart, Saleh Mamman, were removed to reinvigorate his cabinet and consolidate legacy achievements. The President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina quoted the president as saying that the ministers were sacked because...

No fewer than fifty publishers of online newspapers are expected in Abuja, Thursday for capacity building on the provisions and application of Nigeria’s Freedom of Information Act. The training is supported by the Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption (ROLAC) programme, funded by the European Union, but managed by the British...