The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has concluded plans to introduce a new risk management framework known as the macro-prudential risk framework for effective management of risk in the financial sector, particularly in the banking industry, this year. C...
The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has admitted the shortage of gas to power sector, declaring a 12-month gas supply emergency plan to address the situation. The minister in a statement issued in Abuja yesterday, said the...
Nigeria and Saudi Arabia are to earn about $341 billion or 32.3 per cent of the total 12-member nations Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) $1.171 trillion expected oil income this year. According to United States Energy Informat...
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, one of the largest financial services groups in Africa with operations in 19 African countries and three global financial centres, has posted a profit of N16 billion in the first quarter (Q1) of 2012, surpassing the N1...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) will be signing on the trading system of the multinational financial services powerhouse, NASDAQ OMX System. This is part of plans to upgrade its current trading platform to the cutting-edge NASDAQ X-Stream - a high pe...
My feet — which normally only greet the insides of running shoes or stiff office brogues — are today being introduced to designer scrubs, pumice stones and ‘male polish’. Previously as unloved as the mismatched socks I put on th...
It’s overwhelming to discover that 9.5 million children in Nigeria especially in the North-West are Almajiris with no exposure to western education. In this exclusive, Kuni Tyessi challenges northern governors on the importance to make available,...
One critical area where the Federal Government is making slow but deliberate gains of recent is in developing the Non-Formal Education, NFE sub-sector to ensure that millions of Nigerians from all walks of life have access to sound functional education...
Three orphans of different orphanages in the FCT have been given scholarship up to university level by Youth Empowerment Education Initiative, a Non Governmental Organisation after winning a quiz competition which was organised by the group for student...
Worried by the current unpleasant academic posture of federal polytechnics and colleges of education in the country, the minister of education, Professor Rukayyatu Ahmed Rufa’i, recently constituted a seven-man high powered panel to inspect, eval...
The 2005 World Health Report entitled “Make Every Mother And Child Count”, had outlined the major causes of maternal death as severe bleeding/haemorrhage representing 25%, infections 13%, unsafe abortions 13%, eclampsia 12%, obstructed labo...
All roads, last Saturday, led to the Yaba Fishing Lake in Abaji Area council in the FCT. It was the second edition of the FCT fishing competition in the Abuja gateway council and was expected to draw Nigerians and foreigners from all works of life. Ord...
Time Magazine has listed President Goodluck Jonathan as one of the 100 Most Influential Persons in the World. Jonathan is the only African leader named on the list which was published on Wednesday. The citation on Jonathan, written by the President of ...
To Honourable Ifedayo Abegunde, the Labour party in Ondo state is fast becoming history, even as the race for the State House, Alagbaka hots up. The House of Representatives member made this declaration while throwing his name in the ever increasing number of the aspirants for the Ondo state top job. Abegunde, popularly known as Abena to his supporters, said he…
An Ikeja Magistrates' Court on Wednesday fixed May 14 to begin the trial of 23 students of Police College charged with falsification of their educational qualifications. The students were first arraigned before the Magistrate, Mr Olufemi Isaacs, on...