Attracting foreign investors key to building external reserves – Commercio Partners
By Babajide Komolafe Commercio Partners have called for measures to attract foreign investors into the country saying this is critical to building the external reserves, achieving low yields in fixed income and making the equities market attractive. Meanwhile the company has indicated its intention to obtain a regional banking license as part of measures to fulfil […]
Reps seek to abolish by-elections
A law to repeal provisions in the 1999 constitution for by-elections into vacant seats at the Senate and House of Representatives is underway in the Green Chamber.
Stop quest to reopen grazing routes, govs, Afenifere, Ohanaeze, PANDEF, MBF, CAN tell FG
South-South governors, socio-political regional organisations and the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, yesterday rose against the federal government’s insistence on recovering grazing routes for herders in the country.
Insurgency, banditry, kidnapping damaging education in North— Lawan
PRESIDENT of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, weekend raised the alarm that insurgency, banditry and kidnapping were further impeding the growth of education in the north, considering its backwardness in the sector.
Why southern govs’ ban on open grazing isn’t effective in S-East —Miyetti-Allah
The South East Chairman of Miyetti-Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, Gidado Siddiki, said that the ban on open grazing by the Governors of Southern Nigeria will remain ineffective until an alternative to open grazing is provided for the herders.
Restructuring: You’re wrong, S-South govs, CAN, Afenifere, MBF, PANDEF tell Buhari
South-South governors, the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN and a host of regional and ethnic-based organisations, Sunday, disagreed with President Muhammadu Buhari over his comments that there is nothing to restructure in Nigeria.
NiMet, FOA partner to ensure food security in Nigeria
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) and Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) say they will continue to partner to work out strategies for food security in Nigeria
FG’s decision on Land Swap revolutionary steps to bridge infrastructure deficit – Ayom
By Chris Ochayi ABUJA: A real estate magnet and Chief Executive Officer of Hongye International Limited, Mr Moses Ayom has applauded the Federal Government’s decision to lift the suspension on the FCT Land Swap Programme. Mr. Ayom described the development as a revolutionary step to bridge the infrastructure deficit being experienced in the country. Ayom […]
Many escape death, as truck plunges into BRT terminal in Lagos
Hawkers, roadside traders, transporters and commuters, Sunday, escaped death by the whiskers in Oshodi, Lagos State, as an empty truck overturned and fell into the Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, terminal.
FG will complete 2nd Niger Bridge next year ― Fashola
The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has reaffirmed that construction of the Second Niger Bridge would be completed next year. The minister gave the assurance at a forum of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday, to mark the sixth year anniversary of the present administration. According to Fashola, […]
15 Tegina kidnap victims escape, while drunk abductors slept in Niger
There was wild jubilation, weekend, in Tegina town, Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State as 15 kidnap victims surfaced after escaping from the forest they were kept by their abductors.
APC slams Obaseki on water supply failure in Edo
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the failure of Gov. Godwin Obaseki’s administration to address the water problem in the Edo Central Senatorial District and other parts of the state as unbearable and unacceptable
Liberation Set: Chief Olusegun Osoba, other classmates celebrate 60 years of graduation school
Members of the classmate of former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba at Methodist Boys High School, Lagos held a double celebration last week in Lagos at their alma matter
Daring astronauts install solar panels on space station
Spacewalking astronauts equipped the International Space Station with the first in a series of powerful new solar panels Sunday, overcoming suit problems and other obstacles with muscle and persistence. It took two spacewalks for French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough to install and unfurl the panel to its full 63 feet (19 meters) in […]
Ambassador TY Buratai and his foresight on national security
By Mark Bonaventure Nigeria is somewhat experiencing security challenges that are not surprising because there are various factors responsible for it. In this case, I would say the Boko Haram insurgency took the country unaware since 2009 when the Boko Haram group began a violent campaign in North-East Nigeria. The Nigerian Military has been actively […]
My vision for Half Million Coffee, by Meshal Khalid H Alshehri
Business entrepreneur, Meshal Khalid H Alshehri, has outlined his bold and ambitious vision for Half Million Coffee in the next ten years. The Saudi Arabian-born Meshal Khalid H Alshehri, who started the top-selling Half Million Coffee alongside some of his closest friends and associates, has seen the stock of the coffee shop rise from its […]
