By Rotimi Ojomoyela – Ado-Ekiti Ekiti State Government on Monday disclosed that five patients of the deadly coronavirus pandemic have been discharged from the Isolation Centre in Ekiti on Monday. This is just as the government revealed it’s a plan to expand the Isolation Centre to 100-bed space capacity for more preparation on the […]

By Paul Agbo The successes of the recently-concluded Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, congresses across the country has proved that the leadership of the party is in charge of the affairs of the party. This is in spite of the fears in some quarters of a showdown among gladiators that might lead to the main opposition […]

Mobile court underway for violators of govt orders Dayo Johnson – Akure One of the 16 COVID 19 patients in Ondo state died on Monday in Akure, the state capital. The case of the deceased was the first death recorded in the state since the outbreak of the pandemic. Governor Rotimi Akeredolu who disclosed this […]

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has been ranked second best performing stock exchange in April by Bloomberg following significant rallies recorded in the market in the past weeks.
This is contained in Bloomberg’s “Best Performing Indexes” report.

Nova Merchant Bank has said that domestic borrowing, overdrafts from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and drawdown from existing deposits held in accounts of extra-budgetary funds are the only options available for the federal government to finance the gap in the 2020 budget.

The Chief Executive Officers of manufacturing concerns in Nigeria have called on the government to consider five percent interest rate on loans for five to seven years for manufacturers investing to scale up production.

Urges FG to increase awareness on disease By Chioma Obinna As COVID-19 confirmed cases continue to soar, health professionals have decried noncompliance with the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, relaxation guidelines, expressing fears that the development may further worsen the spread of the infection across the country. In a separate interview with Vanguard, the […]

BehindTheSceneGram (BTS-GRAM), a music and video publicity/marketing company has received yet another accolade for its exceptional contributions to the video/music publicity and marketing sector of Nigeria.

Abacha Loot: “I AM happy to confirm that the Federal Government of Nigeria on May 4, 2020 received $311,797, 866.11 of the Abacha assets repatriated from the United States and Bailiwick of New Jersey”. That was the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami on his verified Twitter account at 6:32pm […]

By Yinka Odumakin TOTALITARIAN and arbitrary rule became part of the fight against COVID-19 on Saturday with lawyer-Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State pulling down hotels in the state. In a clear military-style, an order was issued on Saturday and the governor was personally on duty to supervise the demolition of two hotels in Rivers […]

By Eric Teniola THE Council of State shall have power – (a) to advise the President in the exercise of his powers with respect to the National Population Census and compilation, publication and keeping of records and other information concerning the same, Prerogative of Mercy, Award of National Honours, the Federal Electoral Commission (including the […]

By Chinedu Bosah NIGERIA shouldn’t have been a port of call for you, COVID-19; we have more than enough problems hanging on our neck. There is massive poverty in the land, the global capital or headquarters to extremely poor people in a single country having voraciously harnessed about 87 million out of the global population […]

By Obadiah Mailafia LAST week, a Citizen Dialogue event was hosted by the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Budget to examine the fallouts from COVID-19 and the implications for management of the economy. First, it was agreed that our GDP is likely to contract by 3.5 per cent year-on-year for 2020, even as oil earnings […]

By Adeniyi Ifetayo The Tenure of the Governor of Edo State will expire on the 11th day of November 2020. Whether we like it or not each day brings us to the reality on the ground as regards the Edo 2020 governorship elections. The leadership of APC had set up a committee to pick a […]

Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), yesterday, said that the Federal, States and local governments received N1.86 trillion out of about N1.95 trillion distributed from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) in the first quarter of 2020.