archiveSeptember 2021

Following the annual Information Security Management System (ISMS) audit by the British Standard Institute (BSI), Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX Group) and its subsidiaries has retained its ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification. This marks the 7th consecutive year that The Group will hold this certification since it was first received in 2015. The...

VP joins Kebbi Governor, wife to mark Mass Literacy Day Says access to education ticket to enjoyment of all human, civil and socio-political rights. Leaders at all levels should consider the education of their people, especially children and girls, as a duty, enabling them access more socio-economic opportunities and live...

  conferred with Chieftaincy title of Aare Akorewolu of Iyin Kingdom The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan at the weekend called on all Nigerian political leaders to come together in a bid to tackling the challenges facing the country. Lawan said no part of the country could on it's...

Pat Utomi, a Professor of Political Economics has warned that Nigeria runs the risk of entering another debt trap if it keeps borrowing to fill the needs of recurring expenditure spending. He urged that Nigeria develops a clear national strategy, which looks at how growth can take place in a...

  The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered 168 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, raising the total number of cases in the country since the pandemic began to 201,798. The NCDC said the latest positive samples were recorded in 10 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), according...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has said all Collective Investment Schemes in Nigeria must have 100 per cent custody requirements and commenced policies to implement the rules. Mr Lamido Yuguda, SEC DG, who disclosed this in a statement in Lagos on Sunday, noted that the custody requirement must cover...

Chairman of the Southern Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Ondo State governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has said that the amendments sought by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) at the National Assembly on the controversial Value Added Tax (VAT) will be killed at the state Houses of Assemblies. Akeredolu stated this while...

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanj, has fired the Muhammadu Buhari administration over its continuous borrowing to fund recurrent expenditure. Obasanjo, in a recent interview with Channels TV, said that it was ‘foolishness’ to keep borrowing and creating debt for the future generation. “If you want to build a commercial house...

The death of the former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital Gwagwalada, Abuja, this morning came to us as a great shock. As someone who relentlessly participated in the activities of the Middle Belt Forum (MBF), his untimely death has...

President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja on Sunday, September 19, 2021, for New York, United States of America, to participate in the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement in Saturday titled, ‘President...