By Joseph Erunke ABUJA–Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq,has said her ministry would support the Naval Officers’ Wives Association, NOWA,to drive home its core mandate which she noted,centred on empowerment. Farouq said her office will help the association to empower women, children and youths through its social investment programmes.  […]

By Peter Egwuatu As Nigerian Exchange Group Plc (NGX Group) gets set for its maiden Annual General Meeting (AGM) after its demutualisation, members of the Association of Securities Dealing Houses of Nigeria (ASHON) have renewed confidence in the organization and its new structure. ASHON also endorsed the NGX Group’s plan to hold the post-demutualisation and […]

The Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, on Wednesday, disclosed that Lagos State generates an excess of N500 billion in Value Added Tax, VAT form annually.

By Emeka Anaeto, Business Editor There are indications that the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, is almost ready to usher in a new level of financial transaction experience in Nigeria called eNaira. Last week the apex bank announced the formal engagement of the global Fintech company, Bitt Inc., as the Technical Partner for its digital […]

UNIDENTITIED assailants have killed a 16-year-old girl identified as Chidima, and cut off her hands, in a farmland at Umuebu community, Ukwuani Local Government Area of Delta State.

The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned the duo of Michael Yusuf Michael and Martha Daniel Yusuf, both siblings, before Justice Hannnatu A.L Balogun on an eight-count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence. 

Ohanaeze Ndigbo has said that is not against the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to Imo State today but rather welcomes him wholeheartedly.

Chairman of Air Peace airline, Barrister Allen Onyema Wednesday  fulfilled his promise to the Super Eagles by giving them the sum of 20 million naira for winning their match against the Blue Sharks of Cape Verde on Tuesday.

By Jimoh Babatunde A Nigerian based spices producing, processing, and exporting company, Agricorp International, has raised $17.5 million in ‘Series A’ funding to increase its processing capacity up to 7000 metric tonnes per annum. Speaking with journalists, Agricorp’s Chief Executive Officer, Kenneth Obiajulu, said “We believe that by increasing our capacity to 7,000MT, we will […]

About 400,000 Nigerian drug users who exchange needles and syringes as a group while ingesting drugs are responsible for the spread of HIV in the country. Dr Gambo Aliyu, Director-General, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) made the disclosure in Abuja on Wednesday. He said the exchange of needles and syringes by drug […]

Imo State government has unsealed the banks it shut down on Monday night in Owerri, state capital.

Following the change in leadership in the agricultural sector, oil palm farms under the auspices of the National Palm Produce Association of Nigeria, NPPAN, Wednesday, tasked the new Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Abubakar, on focusing and developing cash crops along various value chains

Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Wednesday stated that it is not against the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to Imo State.

CALABAR zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has expressed disappointment at the way and manner some state governments establish state universities without backing same with necessary laws, and urged governors to stop playing politics with Universities establishment.

    Govt should prioritise removing barriers to competitiveness – Dangote By Yinka Kolawole The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said that the development of an efficient inter-regional payments system aimed at facilitating ease of cross-border payments is essential to the successful implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. READ ALSO:Examining trade disputes […]