In continuance of the tight liquidity management stance, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) plans to issue N917.7 billion of new treasury bills in the Primary Market Auction for the second quarter 2012. The apex bank is also repaying N763.38 billion mat...
Investors' low appetite for stocks on the floor of Nigerian Stock Exchange, yesterday continued to depress equity prices as major capitalised companies suffered price depreciation, resulting to a further slide in market capitalisation by N5 billion...
The Rotary Club of Asokoro (District 9125) has conducted free HIV counselling and tests for students of Nasarawa State University, Keffi. This is just as the club has donated slippers, clothes and other valuables to the Almajiri community in Keffi, whi...
Many Nigerians have been skeptical about the status of the National Open University of Nigeria and this can be said to have stemmed from the fact that it is not operated like the typical traditional university. The criticism cannot be far-fetched as cr...
An elder statesman and chieftain of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Lawal Kaita, has hit hard on the party over its recent convention which, he said, fell short of the dreams and aspirations of its founders. Kaita, who described the emergen...
Armed soldiers believed to be men of the 1 Mechanized Division, Nigerian Army, have stormed the popular Barnawa Shopping Complex area of Kaduna metropolis and whisked away 33 persons suspected to be Boko Haram members. Thirteen of those seized were Nig...
Despite the claim by the registrar of the National Examination Council, NECO, Professor Promise Okpalla, that there was a slight improvement in the performance of students who took part in the external senior secondary examination of Nov/Dec 2011, the ...
As Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu clocks 60 years of age today, he speaks on a range of national issues. In this interview with our editors – Iyobosa Uwugiaren, Juwe Oluwafemi and Auwal S. Mu’Azu, the former senator, two-time governor of Lagos S...
United Nations’ Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon has outlined five areas that deserve greater attention as theInternational community strives to ensure nuclear security, curb terrorism financing as well as maintain stricter control over fissile...
The Senate yesterday confirmed three nominees as members of the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) and two nominees into the Federal Judicial Service Commission. They also endorsed the nomination of Barr. Peter Ezeobi as a m...
The executive secretary of the National Universities Commission, Prof Julius Okojie, has warned new universities against admitting students more than they have the facilities for. This was just as he enjoined them to ensure that the number of approved ...
Officials of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environment and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit stormed Ikoyi area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria and arrested 86 illegal squatters, food vendors and aliens in the area. The exercise was carried out base...
A Kaduna Sharia Court on Wednesday dissolved the marriage between one Maryam Ahmed and Sanusi Idris of Maje Village in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, after barely 30 days of the marriage. The court also directed Maryam to refund...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday granted a stay of proceedings in the suits brought against the election and swearing-in of Alhaji Idris Wada as Governor of Kogi. Mr Jibrin Isah and Mr Oyebode Makinde, both of the PDP filed the suits challen...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday stayed proceedings to allow the former officials of the Nigerian Football Association (NFA) to appeal the court’s decision on the no-case-submission filed by the accused persons over N1.3 billion scam. ...