Domestic investors dominate equity market in Q1’20

Domestic investors dominate equity market in Q1’20

LOCAL investors are taking advantage of the incredibly low prices of stocks in the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, to increase their investments following the prolonged downward movement in equity valuation since the advent of the coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic on the Nigeria’s economy.
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Chicharito slams Moyes over ‘error’ that ‘still haunts’ Man United

Chicharito slams Moyes over ‘error’ that ‘still haunts’ Man United

Javier Hernandez thinks Man Utd made the wrong decision in hiring David Moyes to be Sir Alex Ferguson’s successor with his appointment “still haunting” the club. Man United have struggled to hit the heights of Sir Alex Ferguson’s reign since he left in 2013 with Moyes the first manager to attempt to carry on Scot’s […]

Lagos govt discharges 21 COVID-19 patients

Lagos govt discharges 21 COVID-19 patients

By Olasunkanmi Akoni The Lagos State Government has discharged 21 more coronavirus patients, after they tested negative twice to the virus. In a statement on Sunday, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said: “21 COVID-19 Lagos patients— six females and 15 males — including a foreign national have been discharged from our isolation facilities to reunite with society. […]

HEALTH CARE: From one general hospital to 20 in 21 years in Anambra

HEALTH CARE: From one general hospital to 20 in 21 years in Anambra

By Vincent Ujumadu By 1999 when the current democratic dispensation came into being, Anambra State had only one developed general hospital and that was the Onitsha General Hospital. Though there were other general hospitals located in some local government headquarters, they were more or less glorified health centres as most of them lacked the basic […]

Cross River LG election: PDP records landslide victory, wins all 18 Chairmanship positions

Cross River LG election: PDP records landslide victory, wins all 18 Chairmanship positions

…sweeps all 196 Councillorship wards By Ike Uchechukwu – Calabar The ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Cross River recorded a clean sweep of last Saturday’s council elections held across the 18 Local Government Areas, LGAs, of the state. The party also cleared all 196 councilorship positions at the ward level at the poll. According […]

Group calls for independent autopsy for late NDDC Executive Director

Group calls for independent autopsy for late NDDC Executive Director

Afigh Iwad Eket, the umbrella socio-political group of the people from the oil-producing Eket senatorial district, Akwa Ibom State, has called for a thorough investigation into the death of the Acting Executive Director, Finance of the Interim Management Committee, IMC, of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Ibanga Etang.

COVID-19: Ogun doctors lament ‘salaries delay, unfair treatment’

COVID-19: Ogun doctors lament ‘salaries delay, unfair treatment’

Association of Resident Doctors, ARD, Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, OOUTH, Sagamu has lamented the delay in the payment of their salary, hazard allowances and unfair treatment of government. The association also denied signing any MOU with the state government over their plights. In a statement by the association’s President, Dr. Popoola Abiodun, and General […]

Covid-19: 72 test positive from 1,018 samples collected  in Kano – Official

Covid-19: 72 test positive from 1,018 samples collected in Kano – Official

By Bashir Bello KANO – Kano state commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba says of 1, 018 samples collected by the state Task Force on COVID-19, from suspected cases, 72 were found to be positive. Garba who stated this in a statement on Sunday said the samples were submitted to three testing centres in the […]

COVID-19: Kogi lawmakers trade tackles with NCDC, Melaye over state index case

COVID-19: Kogi lawmakers trade tackles with NCDC, Melaye over state index case

…Says NCDC got it wrong By Boluwaji Obahopo – Lokoja As the ding-dong between Kogi State Government and the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control, NCDC continue over the COVID-19 index case in the state, lawmakers in the state have taken a swipe at the centre, said they were wrong in their assessment. The legislators under […]

COVID-19: CAN can’t speak for Christians — OKOTIE

COVID-19: CAN can’t speak for Christians — OKOTIE

SENIOR Pastor of the Household of God Church, Oregun, Lagos, Rev. Chris Okotie has finally broken his long silence, with his renewed challenge to the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, to speak for Christians, an opinion he has always canvassed.

IPPIS: Academic Technologists give notice of strike to FG

IPPIS: Academic Technologists give notice of strike to FG

…Hold Accountant General responsible for any industrial action ―SSANU …Says payment of Minimum Wage not reflected on salary By Johnbosco Agbakwuru – Abuja The National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, has given strike notice to the Federal Government over its dissatisfaction with payment of salaries through the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS and […]

Army arrests 43-year-old woman, two other fake soldiers in Delta 

Army arrests 43-year-old woman, two other fake soldiers in Delta 

By Festus Ahon – Asaba The 63 Brigade of Nigerian Army, Asaba, Delta State weekend, said it has arrested three fake soldiers, including a  43 years old woman in the State State capital and Warri during a routine patrol. The Brigade in a statement by its Assistant Director Army Public Relations, Capt George Okupe, named […]