The Nigerian stock market recorded an impressive start in the first trading week of 2024, with investors gaining N2.7 trillion from their investment in the Nigerian Exchange Limited, NGX.

The Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service, FCT-IRS, has urged ministries, departments and agencies, MDAs, of government as well as other employers of labour in the territory to file their annual returns of income from all sources for the year ended December 31, 2023.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has disbursed the sum of $61.64 million to foreign airlines through various banks.

The University of Ibadan, Ibadan, University of Ilorin and Covenant University yesterday dismissed reports that they had fake professors in their employ.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has  demanded the immediate sack and prosecution of the embattled Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Betta Edu, over alleged looting of N44 billion National Social Investment Programme Agency, NSIPA, fund, including the N585.2 million audaciously diverted by her to a private account.

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said that Nigeria’s money was in wrong hands.

A Chinese firm, Beijing Zhogmin Xinjunlong New Energy Technology Company Ltd. and NIGUS International, a Nigerian firm, have signed a $1 billion agreement to fund and develop gas flaring solutions for Nigeria. The deal which is monumental to Nigeria will help to end gas flaring and introduce Nigeria into the world of Green Sustainable Energy Production. […]

An Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Prof Abiodun Raufu, has advised President Bola Tinubu to target  increase in diaspora remittances.

President Tinubu’s appointed Special Investigator, Mr Jim Obaze, is turning out to be more of an inquisitor than a detached fact-finding inquirer. Before those already gullible enough to swallow everything he has published assume that I have been settled, let me state upfront that I have met only two victims of Obaze’s assault on their right to presumption of innocence. 

Minister of Interior, Mr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has said the launch of the long-anticipated automation process today would revolutionise the passport application system in Nigeria.

The Police Service Commission, PSC, said yesterday that the recruitment of Nigerians into the constable cadre of the Nigeria Police Force would  commence today throughout the federation with physical and credentials screening of successful applicants after.

Fresh developments in the financial sector have shown that despite the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN’s move to ameliorate the cash crunch situation by suspending charges for cash withdrawals above regulatory limits, scarcity of currency notes in the banks nationwide has continued to hit harder, even after the Yuletide season.

In the 2023 Christmas period running from December 23-25, armed assailants in co-ordinated attacks wiped out 20 communities in  Magu, Bokkos and Bakin areas of Plateau State. They killed over 200, injured a minimum 500 and put  over 10,000 in flight. The headlines  expressing ‘Outrage over Plateau killings’ are tragically, familiar and might  have as well been […]

FIVE persons were feared dead and 30 others were rescued in a boat mishap on the River Niger.

The victims, mainly women and children, were believed to be sailing to Onitsha, Anambra State from Kogi State for business transactions.

Two pastors are in police nets in Ogun and Osun states for allegedly defiling two girls during prayer sessions.