By Inwalomhe Donald THE fallout from EndSARS protest in October 2020 has brought about innovation in the management of correctional centres in Nigeria. This follows the assertion of the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, that the police, Edo State Government, correctional services and the public will collaborate to re-arrest the rest of the escapees from Benin […]

ACCORDING to a report released by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, scanners needed to view cargo contents at the Lagos Ports Complex to avoid time-wasting manual clearing of over 4,166 20-foot containers daily, have not worked in the past two years. “It is, therefore, imperative for the Federal Government to expedite action […]

Nigeria’s premier media training institute, the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Lagos has secured the nod of the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) to increase population size of its trainees by an additional stream of 40 students from the current eighty, given admission through the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). Admission to the […]

…distributes N100 million gratuity cheques to retired LG workers By Rotimi Ojomoyela, Ado-Ekiti The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi on Friday cautioned elderly citizens in the state to avoid large gathering, maintain physical distancing and adhere strictly to other safety protocols established to curb the spread of the virus. This is coming following […]

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.