archiveSeptember 2024

The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, on Wednesday sent a notification of a planned massive shutdown of all major cities in Nigeria, effective September 15, 2024. The student body said the protest is in response to the recent fuel price hike and the perceived incompetence of the NNPC Director...

Justice Dehinde I. Dipeolu of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Tuesday, September 3, 2024, convicted and sentenced one Ikpaka Courage to two years imprisonment for presenting himself as Chinedu Okoli, also known as Flavour, a Nigerian singer, to dupe a United States of America citizen, Mrs....

  approves draft Procurement (Amendment) Bill   Towards the conclusion of the teachers’ recruitment exercise, the Osun State Executive Council has directed the Ministry of Education to conduct interviews for applicants within the cut-off range adopted after the recruitment test. The Council presided over by Governor Ademola Adeleke gave the...

A former Minister for Power and Steel, Senator Liyel Imoke has been confirmed as the keynote speaker at the annual conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) scheduled for October 3, 2024 in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital. This is just as attendance and participation by other highly...

  United Capital Trustees, a subsidiary of leading pan-African investment banking and financial services group, United Capital Group, has announced the appointment of Michael Abiodun Thomas as the new Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer. The appointment was said to have followed a rigorous approval process by the Securities and Exchange Commission...

  Top officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are among a galaxy of global anti- corruption experts attending a weeklong International Symposium on Economic Crime in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The Symposium, 41st in the series at Jesus College, one of the oldest Colleges within the University of...

Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) and other foreign Civil Society Organisations have applauded the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mr. Ola Olukoyede, for his consistence, focus and foresight in the fight against economic and financial crimes and other acts of corruption. The leader of the delegation...

  The rising inflation rate will force Nigerian households to spend the largest amounts of their earnings on food in the next six months, a recent survey by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has shown. This is as the most recent report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has lifted the suspension on banks borrowing from its Standing Lending Facility (SLF) and set the lending rate at 31.75%, following decisions made at the 296th Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting. In a statement dated August 26, 2024, Omolara Duke, the Director of...

      The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has explained why the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) delisted Nigeria from its Category One status. In a statement by the Acting Director-General, Chris Najomo, it was clarified that the removal was due to the fact that no Nigerian airline...