COVID-19: Akin Alabi provides emergency relief package for Egbeda/Ona Ara
On Saturday, 29th Of March, Honorable Akin Alabi started a door – door Enlightenment campaign on COVID-19 to teach local residents in his Constituency about social distancing and self-isolation before Oyo state goes into Partial lockdown. During the enlightenment campaign, Hon. Alabi provided the first batch of his emergency relief package which includes food items […]
COVID-19: Travellers stranded as security agents enforce lock-down in Rivers, Delta, Ekiti, others
LAGOS—It was wailing and gnashing of teeth for hordes of stranded travellers, yesterday, as many states began lock-down to contain the spread of the dreaded COVID-19 virus.
COVID-19: Buhari orders lockdown in Lagos, FCT, Ogun
ABUJA—President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday ordered restriction of movements in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun states, following the increase in the number of positive cases, now said to be 111 — nine in Lagos, and 5 in the FCT.
We must continue to fight for more — Adenike Oyetunde
Adenike Oyetunde is a lawyer though not in active practice. She delved into the world of media (radio), where she had the only legal show on air taking on topical issues and helping to solve numerous problems while giving free legal counsel. Qualified human resource personnel and an Emotional Intelligence coach, Oyetunde is a cancer […]
COVID-19: CSCS activates business continuity plan, goes fully digital
The Central Securities Clearing System (CSCS) Plc, at the backdrop of the challenging environment of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, has activated its business continuity plan while going fully digital.
WHAT GOVERNMENT WONT TELL YOU ABOUT RECESSION – 2.
Since writing the first column on the Business/Economic pages of VANGUARD in 1987, during the Babangida administration, nothing has first surprised, then amused me more than how the same set of fantasies/lies get recycled from one generation to the next. It is remarkable how appointed officials deceiving the Head of State and duping him into endorsing their dodgy schemes, go to great lengths to suppress the truth and intimidate those attempting to expose their lies.
COVID-19: Freedom Park closed, two Soyinka events, others postponed
By Japhet Davidson Just from the city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei China, COVID-19 came like a plague and ever since it appeared, the world has not known peace as the pandemic has continued to ravage the entire world, forcing many governments/organisations to lock down. Ordinarily, the arts and culture events are regarded as […]
N100bn health sector intervention scheme operational till 2030 — CBN
CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said that the N100 billion credit support to the health sector created as part of measures to address the impact of the Coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic on the Nigerian economy, will operate till 2030.
Firstbank gives access to e-learning during COVID 19 school closures
FIRST BANK Nigeria Limited has announced partnership with government and other stakeholders to provide access to e-learning solutions to children across the country. The bank, in a statement, said the initiative is to support students and minimize the disruption to education resulting from schools’ closure following the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
A woman is a curvaceous bundle of power – Adesuwa Onyenokwe
Adesuwa Onyenokwe is a media guru in every sense of the word. A veteran journalist, Onyenokwe has practiced broadcast journalism for over 29 years. She is the publisher and editor-in-chief of top women’s magazine – Today’s Woman. An interviewer par excellence, Onyenokwe executive-produced and presented Seriously Speaking which aired on Channels TV between 2014 and […]
COVID-19, global weakness to continue to pressure equities
THE equities market would continue to be pressured by the impact of the fast spreading Coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic in the country as well as the weak sentiment across the global markets, investment analysts have said.
Shareholders seek conversion of 2019 final dividends to interim
SHAREHOLDERS in the Nigerian capital market have urged companies to convert their final dividends to interim dividends following postponement of the Annual General Meetings, AGMs, by the companies on the back of the Coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic ravaging the world.
COVID-19: Outlook for foreign investments in Treasury Bills dims
THE uncertainty and general decline in global economic activities caused by the Coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic as well as the sharp drop in the price of crude oil have further dimmed Nigeria’s prospect of reversing the downward trend in foreign portfolio investments (FPIs) in the Nigerian Treasury Bills (NTBs).
FPI in NTBs represents the second biggest source of dollar inflow into the country after crude oil. It is also the biggest source of Capital Importation (foreign investment) into the country in 2018 and 2019.
Renewed march to reposition the NDDC
IN his continuing effort at delivering a more development-driven Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, President Muhammadu Buhari on March 10, 2020, inaugurated the Advisory Committee of the Commission. Similarly, the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, had also inaugurated the Presidential Monitoring Committee of the NDDC as set up by President Buhari. Also […]
Come and I will increase your heavy burden
By Owei Lakemfa THESE are times people are burdened. When many, with the future appearing bleak due to partial or full lockdowns, need help to get by. This is when religious leaders should be praying for all, or at least their followers, and strengthening them. Yet these are also the times some clerics are sowing […]
COVID-19 pandemic: Breaking the cycle of transmission
By Tayo Ogunbiyi INITIALLY, we did not really bother about it. Some of us thought it was a problem for the Chinese. Somehow, it broke the Chinese barriers, made a foray into Asia and got the whole of the continent entangled in its deadly claws. Having done sufficient damage in Asia, Europe, precisely Italy, became […]
