The United States on Tuesday restored the Democratic Republic of Congo’s favored trading status, pointing to improvements one decade after it was suspended over human rights concerns. President Donald Trump said in a proclamation he was restoring the vast, impoverished nation’s ability to send exports duty-free “based on actions that the government of the DRC […]

South-East political pressure group, the Zikist-Buharist Movement, ZBM, has reprimanded the National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Uche Secondus, for asking President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over the high spate of insecurity in Nigeria.

Russia has imposed entry bans on representatives of the German government, the charge d’affaires of the German embassy in Moscow, Beate Grzeski, was told on Tuesday. The announcement was made during a conversation in the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Foreign Office in Berlin told dpa. No names of those affected were disclosed. Moscow is reacting […]

Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti on Tuesday presented a cheque of N100 million for the payment of gratuities to 41 retired local government workers and primary school teachers in the state for December. At the presentation in Ado-Ekiti, Fayemi said that payment of the gratuities was in fulfilment of his promises to ensure that pensioners […]

Nigeria’s investment inflows in the third quarter of 2020 (Q3’20) has rebounded from the COVID-19 decline, posting a 1,480 percent increase to $3.95 billion from $0.25 billion in the second quarter (Q2’20).

THE Nigerian Export Promotion Council, NEPC, has canvassed for the creation of a single window platform to be known as Domestic Export Warehouse, DEW, targeted at making exports more efficient.

By Okoh Aihe HOW very ludicrous! Referring to the happenings in the telecommunications industry on Monday morning, a friend drew my attention to Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again, a play written by Prof. Ola Rotimi of blessed memory. It is not just that the husband is mad but that he had been mad before […]

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has provided additional capacity development support to laboratories of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The support, which is the Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) test kits, was aimed at strengthening detection and response to public health threats in Nigeria especially in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic. The Chief Representative, JICA […]

The Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), which will commence in the next two weeks, was designed to create the largest free trade area in the world measured by the number of countries participating. The pact is to connect 1.3 billion people across 55 countries with a combined gross domestic product (GDP) valued at 3.4 […]

Gov Gboyega Oyetola of Osun on Tuesday signed into law the N109 billion 2021 state appropriation bill. Oyetola, while signing the bill in Osogbo, said that the 2021 budget would perform better than the 2020, which according to him recorded more than 90 per cent performance despite COVID-19 lockdown and the EndSARS protest. The News […]

THE Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), yesterday, launched its X-PO, an online platform for public offerings (POs) following the “No Objection” letter received from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the initiative.

Most Nigerian consumers are not likely to purchase expensive or luxury items in the next 12 months. The Central Bank Of Nigeria (CBN) made this known in its Consumer Expectations Survey (CES) Report for December 2020, released by the Statistics Department of the apex bank on Tuesday in Abuja. According to the report, most consumers […]

The Nigerian Army has received massive praises for showcasing a high level of human rights compliance in its various operations across the country this year. The Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CESJET) made the revelation in a special report appraising the performance of the Armed Forces of Nigeria in 2020. In the report […]

AG Mortgage Bank has disclosed that it’s largest commercial mortgage building, Enyimba plaza, is almost completed in Aba, Abia state.

The gift card business has become a normality in Nigeria as you easily find a vendor online be it social media or search engines. The main problem is finding a reliable vendor as there are so many scammers(usually called rippers), cheaters and those that give low rates. In this article, we will tell you where […]