archiveOctober 27, 2021

The process of establishing a new private university in Ikirun, Osun State, has begun. The new university, Gboleru University, will serve three particular functions: to prepare students for decent and qualitative employment, to achieve personal growth, and to contribute to improvement in society. To this effect, over $100 million has...

  Rite Foods’ counsel has prayed the Lagos Federal High Court of Hon. Justice A.L. Allagoa, to convict the Managing Director of the Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) Mathieu Seguin for contempt of court, as he has failed in the previous suit against him to appear before the court, after many...

Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Dr Kingsley Obiora, CBN Deputy Governor, Economic Policy Directorate are among the dignitaries to receive the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) Fellowship award on Saturday. Mr Nelson Olagundoye, Head, Corporate Communication and External Relations, CIBN, announced this in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos....

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has granted the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) the approval to deploy over N621.2 billion of its tax liabilities to the construction of 21 roads, covering a total distance of 1,804.6km, across the six geo-political zones in the country. The approval was given at Wednesday’s...

 Delta Airlines, the longest-serving U.S. airline to Africa, will resume its direct flight services between Lagos and  John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Dec.8.The airline operators said they are doing this to restore  the popular route in time for the festive season. Delta’s Commercial Director Africa, the...

Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Ogun and Lagos chapters, on Wednesday in Sango-Ota, blocked the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway over its deplorable state after empty promises to fix it. The protesters carried placards with inscriptions: “we don’t want palliatives”, “we want good roads”, “Dapo Abiodun save our souls from bad...

An IT specialist, Mrs Tinuola Popoola, warned in Abuja on Wednesday that exciting as the recently-launched eNaira is, it could lead to new crime level if cyber security was not strengthened. eNaira is the Nigerian digital currency issued and regulated by the CBN. It was launched on Oct. 25 to...

  Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday presided over a virtual meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) anchored from the Presidential villa, Abuja. President Muhammadu Buhari is away in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for the investment conference organised by the Future Investment Initiative Institute. The president will also perform the...

 African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced its partnership and support of 500,000 dollars to the African Technology Policy Studies (ATPS) network. The bank said in a statement issued on Wednesday that the partnership would address gaps in operational costs as well as funding for on-going activities over a three-year period...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, displayed before a Federal High Court Lagos, virtual projection of a Compact Disc (CD) with 51,933 pages analysis of the iPhone of Azeez Fashola a.k.a Naira Marley. The EFCC projected the virtual, through its second witness, Mr Augustine Anosike, a forensic...