By David Odama IN its effort to ensure effective monitoring and full participation of women, youths as well as the disabilities in a electoral processes in Nigeria, the European Center for Electoral Support, (ECES) has organized a four days capacity building workshop for staff of INEC on Election and party Monitoring department. Speaking at the […]

Proposes rules for prospective issuers  By Nkiruka Nnorom The Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, has commenced moves to ensure  that Nigeria and Nigerians benefit from the fast growing global social bonds market currently estimated  at $85 billion. Social bonds are types of debt issues which proceeds are exclusively deployed to finance or refinance projects aimed […]

Youths and Ex- Militants under the aegis of Coalition of Niger Delta Groups in Ondo state have described as injustice and executive lawlessness the non appointment of an indigene of the oil communities in the state as the Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, and Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, the German Development Finance Institution, have entered into a partnership to provide $50 million loan support to   small and medium scale businesses (SMEs) in Nigeria. The bank in a statement said the $50m Term Facility Agreement has a tenor of six years and is […]

Over the past weekend, there were heavily alarming stories of the arrival of several military transport aircraft at the Sam Mbakwe Airport, Owerri. They brought war equipment shortly after President Muhammadu Buhari threatened to “speak to” the Igbo people of the South East “in the language they understand”