archiveAugust 14, 2024

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Network of Anti-Corruption Institutions in West Africa (NACIWA) will on Monday, August 19, 2024 commence its sixth Annual General Assembly, AGA, and meeting. The AGA, themed “Implementing the ECOWAS Protocol on the Fight against Corruption towards Strengthening Institutions for Regional...

  The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe, has commended the oil and gas service firm for the giant strides it recorded in oil and gas equipment components manufacturing. He spoke on Tuesday when he visited the facilities of BEAMCO Nigeria Limited in...

  A social critic, Aisha Yesufu says she will choose to spend 20 years in prison than sing the new national anthem, which she described as President Bola Tinubu’s anthem. Her statement comes after a report emerged that a Bill, sponsored by the Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas, and now awaiting the...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has extended Access Holdings’ N351 billion capital raise to August 23. In a statement released on Wednesday and signed by Sunday Ekwochi, the company’s secretary, Access Holdings announced that the original deadline of August 14 has been extended to August 23 following approval from...

  says 67% of Nigerian medical doctors practising in UK   Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Ali Pate, has said that 75 per cent of health workers trained in Nigeria last year have left to other countries to practice. He also said that 67 per cent of Nigerian...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has donated N50 billion recovered from proceeds of crime, to the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND). The anti-graft agency made this known in a statement issued on Tuesday when the Managing Director and CEO of NELFUND, Akintunde Sawyerr, and his team paid...

Abdurrahman Kawu Sumaila, Senator representing Kano South under the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), has disclosed that each Senator in Nigeria receives N21 million monthly for administrative expenses. He disclosed this during an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Hausa service. Former president of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo, had recently...

The Nigerian government has intensified a move to extradite Simon Ekpa, a factional leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) from Finland. The Foreign Affairs Minister, Yusuf Tuggar, revealed this on Tuesday after high-level discussions with his counterparts from Finland, Sweden and Iceland as well as representatives from...

    The Senate through its Committee on Public Accounts on Tuesday slammed the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), the Nigeria Police Force and 12 others for their persistent refusal to respond to queries raised against them in the 2019...

United Capital Group, a leading pan-African investment banking and financial services institution, has successfully led the issuance of Sierra Leone’s first local currency corporate bond, valued at SLE32 million (approximately US$1.4 million). This historic milestone signifies a transformative moment for Sierra Leone’s capital market. Acting as the Financial Adviser, United...