The naira, yesterday, depreciated again at the official and interbank foreign exchange markets as the Central Bank of Nigeria,CBN, failed to meet demand
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan in an Eid-el-Fitri message, yesterday reassured all citizens and foreigners resident in the country that his administration is taking every necessary action to enhance national security.
The Inspector General of Police, Mr Hafiz Ringim yesterday disclosed that 50 suspects have been arrested in connection with last Friday’s bomb blast at the United Nations House in Abuja which claimed 23 lives with 73 others still hospitalised.
MY instinctive reaction when Nigeria declared that we want to be one of the 20 biggest economies in the world in the year 2020 was to look up the members of the G-20.
The Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, has deployed 285 personnel on a 24-hour special patrol to ensure accident-free Eid-el-Fitri celebration in Abuja, Mr. Funmbi Olawoyin, the FCT Sector Commander, said.
Jos, the Plateau State capital which had enjoyed relative peace for several weeks erupted in another orgy of violence yesterday, leaving at least 20 dead and over 50 others injured. This happened just as the rampaging Islamic sect, Boko Haram struck again in Maiduguri, Borno State capital killing three people, including a local government chairman.
Access Bank Plc said, yesterday, that it planned to use N53.47 billion to acquire 75 per cent stake in Intercontinental Bank Plc.
NATIONAL Union of Electricity Employees, yesterday petitioned the Presidency accusing the Minister of Power of secretly compiling names of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, workers to be sacked and threatened to shut down the sector should the minister fail to jettison the plan.
Before the landing of Glo 1 as Globacom’s submarine cable is called, in Lagos, the only undersea broadband infrastructure available was the SAT-3 which was jointly owned by several countries in Africa. Glo therefore single-handedly positioned Nigeria on the world technology platform.
THE European Union, EU, and the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, are to partner Anambra State for the provision of one hundred percent access to sanitation, hygiene and improved water supply to selected communities in Ogbaru local government area of the state. Ogbaru is one of the six local governments in the state designated for fighting abject poverty and improving infrastructure.
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, swore in the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Dahiru Musdapher, with a charge to ensure the restoration of the confidence of Nigerians in the judiciary.
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has condemned the suicide bomb attack on the UN building in Abuja.
Reacting to the latest bomb incident in the nation’s capital in a statement, the former Vice-President noted that indiscriminate violence against the innocent could not solve any problem in any society.
GOVERNOR Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State and his predecessor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, have enjoined Muslim faithful in the country to imbibe the lessons of Ramadan and not to return to the ways of life they avoided during the fasting period.
Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State has said that the collapse of flourishing industries in the South Eastern part of the country over the years was largely attributable to the lack of access to funds, mismanagement and other ancillary support necessary for their growth and stability.
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