Will Transcorp turn around this year?
Transnational Corporation of Nigeria is yet to show the stability in earnings that befits a conglomerate. It has rather maintained a pattern of profit rise and fall that leaves its earnings outlook uncertain. Over the past five years, the company has recorded alternating rise and fall in profit performance. Will the company rise this year after the fall of last year is the caution on Transcorp in 2015.
PDP will win bailout or no bailout
The Director General of the PDP Governorship campaign, Senator Tunde Ogbeha has vowed that the PDP would win the election irrespective of the release of the bailout fund meant to offset workers’ salaries.
Kogi Guber: Women’s group urges workers to reject PDP
The Confluence Women Mandate, CWM, has appealed to civil servants in Kogi State to maximize the opportunity offered by this Saturday’s election to free themselves from the clutches of poverty as fashioned by the PDP.
Siasia drops Enyimba Stars for indiscipline
Nigeria U23 team coach Samson Siasia has wielded the big stick by dropping Kingsley Sokari, Nzube Anaezemba and Daniel Etor for what he termed indiscipline.
HID Awolowo’s lying-in-state in photos
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, his wife, Bolanle, were among the prominent Nigerians who on Sunday, besieged the Park Lane, Apapa, Lagos residence of the Awolowos’, to pay their last respect to the late matriarch of the Awolowo family, Late Mrs. Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo.
4 dead as street traders, govt officials clash in Aba
ABA—No fewer than four persons were feared dead, weekend, in Aba, Abia State, when street traders at New Market clashed with officials of Aba Urban Renewal Committee over the order to relocate to Good Morning Market.
We are yet to see any change, Bucknor-Akerele tells Buhari, APC
Former Deputy Governor of Lagos State and the only female senator in the botched Third Republic, Senator Louisa Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele is not happy with the state of affairs in the country and wants President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to unveil their roadmap for addressing the numerous socio-economic and political challenges the country is facing.
Olympics: Paris attacks won’t affect 2024 Olympic bid – IOC
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach insisted on Sunday that the Paris terror attacks, which left 129 people dead, “will absolutely” not affect the French capital’s bid to host the 2024 Olympics.
NIMC DG sets 80m enrollment target by 2016
The outgoing Director General/CEO of the National Identity Management Commission NIMC, Barrister Chris Onyemenam has expressed optimism that by 2016, the Commission would have populated the National Identity database with the data of over 80 million Nigerians.
Nigeria must pay attention to non-oil sectors – Ambode
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Sunday urged the country to pay more attention to the non-oil sectors of the economy in view of the dwindling revenue from oil.
Inflation drops to 9.3% in October
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released its report on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the month of October, showing that inflation rose to 9.3 per cent in the tenth month of the year compared to 9.4 per cent in the previous month.
