This is in the wake of wide condemnation of the killing of the sect’s leader, Mohammed Yusuf, by groups including the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Action Congress (AC), and the Yoruba Pan-social organisation, Afenifere.

LAGOS – Nigerians have blamed the increased rate of kidnaping in the country on the high rate of unemployment among the employable youth. According to results of a recent poll conducted by NOI/Gallup Polls, 44 per cent of Nigerians said the rate of kidnaping has increased in the past year; in contrast, 38 per cent […]

PERHAPS, not so many people would have known that Nigeria ranks poorly in the 2009 Global Competitiveness Rankings of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness of the Harvard University, United States. But the arrival of world’s renowned business strategist and revered scholar at Harvard Business School, Professor Michael Porter penultimate week, at a seminar sponsored by MTN Nigeria to discuss Nigeria’s economy, threw more light into the survey.

By Luka Binniyat ABUJA – The leadership of House of Representatives  yesterday dissociated itself from the report of its Committee on Capital Market made available to newsmen last Friday. The report had absolved the President/CEO of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, of alleged involvement in African Petroleum (AP) Plc hybrid offer share manipulation. The Chairman, […]

THE world’’s leading maker of mobile devices in, Nokia, in collaboration with the Consumer Protection Council (CPC), the apex consumer protection agency of the Federal Government of Nigeria, have teamed up to address issues relating to the physical safety and economic interest of Nigerians consuming electronic produce flooding the market from the international market.In a capacity building event held last week that brought together stakeholders in the electrical/electronic sub-sector at the Alaba International market, participants at the event noted that there was need to tackle the incidence of fake products as well as sub-standard e- goods flooding the Nigerian market.

LAGOS -United Bank for Africa (UBA) gross earnings in the nine-months ended June 30, 2009 rose by 34 per cent to N 160.6 billion compared to N 120.3 billion recorded during the same period in 2008. The Bank’s profit before tax and exceptional items stood at N 33.695 billion. The bank also made an exceptional […]

ABUJA- THE Federalgovernment yester day inaugurated a macroeconomics policy group with a mandate to develop a macroeconomic frame work for the vision 20:2020, just as it has been charged to develop macroeconomic policies that will provide sustainable support for the short and long term imperatives of the vision.

He pointed out that two buses could shuttle Ekakpamre/Otu–Jeremi, Oginibo/Okwagbe and a bus for Ughelli/Ovwor/Okpare/Otu-Jeremi, adding that another could shuttle Ughelli/Ewu/Okparabe/Oviri-Olomu/Umolo down to Otu-Jeremi.

The recent failure of Nigeria’s terrestrial internet service provision, the South Atlantic 3/West Africa Submarine Cable, known as SAT-3, has been declared as a major operational risk to the banks and other organisations with a high dependency on international and internet communications.

CHAIRMAN of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), Prof. Jonas Redwood Sawyer and the Registrar of the Council, Mrs. Mulikat Bello have described the Benin monarch, Oba Erediauwa, as a pillar of support and trusted friend of the examination body.