archiveOctober 16, 2021

Ahead of the very 1st anniversary of the October 20 2020 #EndSARS protest in Lagos where gunshots were fired at protesters at the Lekki tollgate, popular Nigerian singer Falz has said Nigerian youths will not be silenced by anyone. In a post shared on his Instagram page this evening, the...

The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has taken a swipe at Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Citadel Global Community Church over his ambition to run for president in 2023. Bakare, who paid a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, said he will contest for the...

A Cambridge University college said on Friday that it would return a looted bronze cockerel to Nigeria later this month, making it the first U.K. institution to hand back one of the artifacts known as the Benin Bronzes. According to The Washington Post quoting AP, Jesus College announced in 2019...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday recorded 167 new cases and two additional deaths from the coronavirus pandemic. This is contained in data released by NCDC on Saturday morning. The Public Health Agency said that with the new fatalities, the death toll from the virus in the...

Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti state, on Friday reiterated his adminitration’s commitment to implement programmes and policies that would continue to meet the yearnings of the people of the State. Fayemi made the commitment in Ado-Ekiti at a special Juma’at prayer and thanksgiving service marking the third anniversary of his...

The Permanent Secretary, Political and Economic Affairs in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Andrew Adejo, has said that a divided Nigeria cannot survive and prosper. Adejo, who is also the Secretary, inter-ministerial Committee on “Nigeria at 60” awards, said this in an...

say economic recovery uncertain The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), at its 2021 Annual General Meeting, appraised global economic recovery which they said is fraught with several uncertainties. A communique issued at the end of the meeting on October 15, disclosed that an estimated 100 million people...

The NGX All-Share Index and Market Capitalization appreciated by 1.39 per cent and 1.54 per cent to close the week at41,438.15  and N21.625 trillion respectively. Similarly, all other indices finished higher with the exception of NGX ASeM Index which closed flat. A total 45 equities appreciated in price during the...