Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina state has again called for a total wipeout of bandits and their activities in the northwest sub-region.

The Chief Executive Officer of United Kingdom-based Baron Inc. Entertainment, an International Promoter and sports agent, who is a close associate of top sports personalities across the world, Olamide Baron, has given kudos to the Premiership management for their stand against racism.

Urges residents to complement govt’s efforts to check spread The Edo Forum of Retired Heads of Service and Permanent Secretaries has donated N500,000 to boost the Edo State Government’s response to check the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the state. Chairman of the forum, Mallam Ikhelowa Atalasa Hanson, who made the presentation at Government […]

Nigeria’s economy in 2020 has been projected to decline by -8.91 percent in a worst case scenario and -4.4 percent in a best case scenario, following the ravaging impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. On a quarter-on-quarter steady decline to year end the country would have slipped back into recession barely three years after the sustained recovery from the same situation.

FORMER workers and retirees of the defunct Nigeria Airways Limited, NAL,  have pleaded with the Federal Government to pay their outstanding entitlement to enable them cope with difficulties and consequences of the rampaging coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic.

When Buhari announced on May 29, 2015, that his government would launch a Social Investment Programme, SIP, it was clear that this was expected to be his legacy programme. Solemn promises were made to Fellow Nigerians on that day. But, as Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850, has remarked,  “I am beginning to wonder, how many fools it takes to make the term “My Fellow Citizens”. Some of us who had lived through decades of fiction rendered as promises were sceptical. After all if a man fools you once, the shame is on him. If twice, you should be ashamed of yourself. I did not believe a word of what the President announced that day. Nevertheless, they ended up in the 2016 Budget presented to the National Assembly, NASS – which actually took Buhari seriously and substantially passed the budget after the usual favours-trading between the Presidency and NASS. Nigerians, invariably have been the losers at the end of the day.

By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Barely three years to 2023 general elections, YIAGA AFRICA and partners are set to host a Live TV and virtual citizens’ town hall on electoral reforms June 30. This was contained in a statement signed by the Executive Director, YIAGA Africa, Samson Itodo, which explained that meaningful electoral reform should […]

Shareholders of Niger Delta Exploration & Production Plc (NDEP), at the 25th  Annual General Meeting (AGM) last week, unanimously approved a dividend of N17 per share, the Company’s highest in its 13th  year of consistent dividend payment.

The interbank money market has been gripped with intense scarcity of funds as amount of idle cash (liquidity) in the market fell by 95 percent, prompting banks to besiege    the Standing Lending Facility, SLF, of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for short term cash needs. 

ABUJA-THE federal government disclosed yesterday that more than one million applications were received from intending N-Power enrollees across the country in less than 48 hours.