A huge rally in the last trading day at the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, yesterday which gained 1.27 perccent could not save the market from abysmal negative full year result. In the end the market recorded -17.8 percent loss for the year 2018.

Nigeria’s external debt declined marginally by 2.02 percent to $21.6 billion in the third quarter of 2018, Q3’18, from $22.1 billion recorded in the second quarter 2018, Q2’18, almost cancelling out the 1.2 percent rise in domestic debt recorded during the quarter, Q3’18.

Former Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant Gen. Alani Akinrinade (rtd), has cautioned the media on false reports on happenings in the war against Boko Haram insurgency. Akinrinade gave the advice at the 81 Division West African Social Activities (WASA), at 65 Battalion parade ground, warning that, “the exaggerated and sometimes entirely fabricated falsehood on the social media […]

NIGERIA in the  context of global   economic slow down. In a global village, no country is immune from the universal economic downturn which is already underway. Allan Greenspan, who for more than ten years controlled the e world’s economy as the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank was on CNN in December to warn us that the global economy will shrink in 2019. In fact, the deceleration is already in progress in the USA – the world’s largest economy and China, the second. Europe and other Asian countries are already bracing up for what is expected to be a tough period. 

AT the beginning of every year, analysts daringly make predictions. Some never come to pass because they are over-optimistic, too pessimistic or simply offered as much in hope as in expectation. Of course, it’s difficult to predict the future with exactitude. Yet, this hasn’t stopped analysts from making new year predictions. I want to follow in that tradition by giving my take on how things might pan out for Nigeria this year.

Eight people were killed, Sunday, in separate attacks by unknown gunmen in Plateau and Kaduna states, while nine people sustained injuries in the attacks.

Organized labour yesterday told workers to fully mobilize for a prolonged national strike over the inability of the government to commence the process of implementing the N30,000 new minimum wage.

The Universal Watch Network has countered a recent report by the International Strategic Studies Association (ISSA) that the federal government of Nigeria has lost the control in engaging the Boko Haram terrorists. It said the claim by ISSA that the government is no longer sure of what faction of the terrorist group it is fighting […]

THE Alhaji Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Team has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari, who is seeking re-election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to campaign with his achievements since he came to power instead of blaming the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and trying to paint the PDP candidate as corrupt.

UMUAHIA—SENATOR Theodore Orji, representing Abia Central Disitrict at the national assembly has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to conduct free, fair and credible elections next year as a mark of honour for the first democratically elected President of Nigeria, Alhaji Shehu Shagari who passed on last week.