Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, Mr. Oscar Onyema, has said that arrangement is underway to hire external advisers that will champion the demutualisation of the stock exchange.

It is no longer news that Nigerian fashion has gone on the international domain, with various platforms to showcase the same including fashion shows, in store deals and of course on line platforms.

THE failure of our rulers cannot be measured only by the visible decay of infrastructure and the dwindling quality of our lives but also by the way they prefer to die. While ordinary citizens live their miserable lives which literarily expire unsung in the country, our leaders, or rather, rulers on whose shoulders rest the responsibility of taking us beyond the 47 years pegged as our life span live theirs in foreign lands and/or die there. Yet, they daily savour the splendour and all that the high public offices they occupied or occupy but fail to provide the rest of us facilities in the quality measure they enjoy them in the foreign lands they govern us from.

LAWYERS, yesterday, defied Police order against public procession in Rivers State, as they marched to the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, denouncing the delay in the appointment of a substantive Chief Judge for the state judiciary.

An Olympian, Emmanuel Babayaro, on Thursday said that he was confident that Super Eagles would overcome Morocco’s Atlas Lions in a quarter-final match of the African Nations’ Championship (CHAN).

The immediate past governor of Kaduna State, the late Ibrahim Yakowa and his successor, Mukthar Yero may have operated on the same political platform, but expectations and experience of the two are different on ground. Why?

THE gale of defections from the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, to the All Progressive Congress, APC has been received by many commentators with mixed feelings. While some brazenly wave the defectors aside with uncouth commentaries, others have seen it as the desired light at the end of the tunnel for Nigeria’s chequered history. The PDP has suffered very serious depletion lately and the gale has not ended. Many more are warming up to dump the party that has prided itself for too long as the largest political party in Africa. Some of its members had boasted to citizens that the party will rule Nigeria for sixty unbroken years.

President of Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Aminu Maigari departed the shores of Nigeria on Thursday night to rejoin the Eagles B squad in Cape Town ahead of Saturday’s potentially-explosive African Nations Championship quarter final duel with Morocco’s Atlas Lions.

EVERY country that strives to attain true independence must be able to feed herself. There must be industries in place to produce both agricultural-end products and spare parts that will keep the engines and tools working.

Residents of Bauchi State are now groaning over poor electricity supply in Bauchi, the state capital and the environs.
Some of the residents who spoke to Vanguard over the situation lamented that they had expected the situation to improve with the privatisation of the PHCN, but regretted that the supply of electricity has continued to be epileptic within the state.

As last week was closing with the news of the sorrowful departure of the Peoples‘ Democratic Party‘s (PDP) Chairman, Bamanga Tukur, the new week has brought the pleasing news of a new Chairman, Adamu M‘uazu, a former Governor of Bauchi State. This is a credit to PDP Party for saving Nigerians the horror of witnessing a long drawn battle with the dire consequences of a fractured political party.

The Ogun State government, yesterday, accused the immediate past administration of Otunba Gbenga Daniel of procuring a 20 year old inefficient power equipment.
But in a reaction, former Governor Gbenga Daniel said the allegation against his government as laughable, describing Amosun as being mischievous.

THE lingering Ugborodo crisis took a twist, yesterday, with the Council of Elders of the community, disagreeing with Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, that the $6 million released by Chevron Nigeria Limited for the development of the New Ugborodo Town Project was safe in an escrow account.

The Federal Government has concluded plans to launch the Multi-Stakeholder Trust Fund, MSTF, to fast-track the development of the Niger Delta.

LAPO Microfinance Bank Limited said it has budgeted N92.7 billion for disbursement to Small Medium Enterprises, SMEs, in this fiscal year.
The bank’s Managing Director, Mr. Godwin Ehigiamusoe, disclosed this while chatting with journalists on the activities of the bank this year.