archiveJanuary 2022

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has called on all capital market operators (CMOs) to screen and verify their clients to clear them of any links with proscribed terrorist groups. A circular released by the SEC on its website said the call was in line with the gazette released by...

A High Court in Umuahia, Abia State, on Wednesday ordered the Nigeria Government to pay N1 billion to Nnamdi Kanu, for violating the rights of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Judge Benson Anya described the invasion of Kanu’s Afaraukwu residence as notorious and brazen. He also...

The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) has announced January 31, 2022, as the deadline for the filing of annual tax returns by employers of labour. The LIRS said that the filing of the annual income tax returns in the state can only be done through the e-Tax portal, which...

KPMG, Nigeria’s Leading audit and professional services company, has ranked Ecobank Nigeria among the top five leading banks in Wholesale (Corporate) Banking in the KPMG Customers’ Experience and Satisfaction Survey. Ecobank moved eight places higher than its 2020 classification, and ranked number five in the 2021 survey of Nigerian banks....

Bayern Munich’s record-setting striker Robert Lewandowski retained FIFA’s top men’s player title Monday at “The Best” of 2021 ceremony as Barcelona captain Alexia Putellas collected the award for best women’s player. The 33-year-old Lewandowski, who set a Bundesliga goal record last season, won the trophy for the second time, edging...

PDP Support Group, has cautioned former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, against imposing the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2018 governorship election, Senator Ademola Adeleke, on the party again. A statement by the Coordinator of the group, Apesin-Abiodun Adegoke, urged the National Secretariat of the party...

Investors on the Nigerian bourse recorded a loss 0.12 per cent or N30 billion as the market capitalisation dropped from N23.95 trillion to N23.92 trillion on Monday. The All-Share Index was down by 55.01 basis points to close at 44,399.66 compared with 44,454.67 with which it closed on Friday. A...

The Olubadan-in-Council, a conclave of Ibadan High Chiefs, also known as kingmaker, on Saturday, cleared the air on the successor to the late Oba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji, Aje Ogunguniso 1, whose passing away was confirmed on January 2. The Osi Olubadan of Ibadanland and former governor of Oyo State, Senator...

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum has said that the party handed over a $550 billion economy to the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government in 2015. The Forum has described the federal ruling party as a ‘massive failure’ when compared with the records of the PDP in...

Former Secretary to the Osun State Government (SSG), Alhaji Fatai Akinbade, was the second state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Commissioner for Works. In this interview by KUNLE ODEREMI, he speaks on how the main opposition party can regain power in the state, basis for his...