archiveSeptember 28, 2021

 The Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Ltd closed trading on Tuesday on a cautious trading extending losing streak by N3 billion.Speficially, the market capitalisation which opened at N20.248 trillion lost N3 billion or 0.01 per cent to close at N20.245 trillion. Similarly, the All-Share Index closed flat, losing 5.34 points or 0.01...

    Vice President Yemi Osinabjo says the Federal Government’s Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP) is aimed at mitigating the macroeconomic shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic.   Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said the vice president spoke virtually at a UN High-Level Forum on Jobs...

•frowns at chunk of annual budget spent on debt servicing The Association of Professional Bodies of Nigeria (APBN) has advised the federal government on the need to exercise restraint on the further accumulation of debts; since such borrowings have begun to take their tolls on the nation’s economy. Making the...

The Senate has mandated its committees on Petroleum Resources Upstream, Downstream Petroleum Sector and Gas to liaise with the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and the Presidential Implementation Committee on the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), to facilitate the relocation of oil and gas companies in Nigeria to their various operational bases in host...

  *President was represented by VP Osinbajo at NDDC-donated Police Barracks commissioning in Rivers State *Adds: Commissioning part of our efforts to improve livelihood of officers, peace, prosperity and development of Niger Delta *Urges NDDC to execute projects that will benefit the people of Niger Delta In line with ongoing...

The Lagos State Police Command on Tuesday said it had deployed all its machinery to rescue retired Air Vice Marshal, AVM Sikiru Smith from the hands of gunmen who kidnapped him. The spokesman of the command, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, said this while reacting to the kidnapping of the retired Air...

    Given the nature of injuries sustained from around 9:00 pm at the Lekki Toll Gate on the night of October 20, 2020, it has been gathered that live military-grade ammunition was fired at some point by yet to be identified persons. That’s the summary of the evidence of...

  The Presidential Steering Committee(PSC) on COVID-19 has banned over 2,000 Nigerians and foreigners from travelling abroad and into the country for one year, for evading the Coronavirus Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test at the country’s international airports. The National Incident Manager (NIM) of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC), Mukhtar...

BudgIT, a foremost civic-tech organisation leading the advocacy for transparency and accountability in Nigeria and three other African countries has launched the 2020 edition of its annual States of States report titled Fiscal Options for Building Back Better. This report is BudgIT’s signature analysis that provides citizens, CSOs, stakeholders and...

 The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has urged Federal Government agencies and ministries to live up to the obligations imposed on them by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).It made the call in a statement issued on Tuesday to mark the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI). The...