The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, on Monday in Abuja, tasked the 88 newly-appointed ambassadors to sustain efforts that would attract foreign investment to the country. The minister, who spoke at an induction course for the ...
A Federal High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday fixed April 3 for hearing of a suit filed by the Save Nigeria Group (SNG) against the Federal Government. The SNG had filed a N100 million suit against the Federal Government for deploying s...
The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) on Monday in Lagos called on Nigerians to shun religious sentiments and regard the Boko Haram sect as a common enemy. This, it said, would facilitate the eradication of the sect's menace. Reacting to Sunday...
In an effort to make pupils active participants in the electoral process, INEC said on Monday in Abuja that it would ensure that voter education became part of the secondary school curriculum. Prof. Lai Olurode, Chairman of the Board of Electoral Insti...
As the battle for the number one office of the ruling party rages on, Dr Musa Babayo an aspirant to the office of the National Chairman of the PDP argues that he has the most required competence in party administration to change the fortunes of the par...
It will be so smooth a political allusion to say that these lawmakers are troublemakers. Consider this scenario where the ever ready critics of the Senators would say; don’t mind them; “ They like to court trouble, they cherish it so much s...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent the sum of $6.7 million through the Society for Family Health during a two-year project in Gombe wherein 11 local government area were targeted to save 60,000 women and their children &nb...
Nigeria’s progress towards reducing under five mortality is still slow, ranking 12th in the indicator with the ratio 143 to 1,000 live births in 2010, the State of World Children report, has showed. The report, a publicati...
The Delta State government is giving credence to the popular axiom that “the greatest happiness of the majority is the yardstick for measuring goodness”. This, perhaps, has been the propelling force behind the seemingly state government'...
Unlike in the past, the election that led to the emergence of the current Speaker of the Bayesal State House of Assembly was competitive and contested by notable legislators without the noticeable influence of the state governor, Seriake Dickson. Obser...
The Owerri event was electrifying. The pulse of the people could be felt everywhere in the state. The streets of Owerri and its environs were adorned with flags, buntings and banners, heralding the arrival of the Great Ojukwu. The young and old, includ...
Some market operators have called on the regulators of the nation’s bourse to expedite action in their efforts to appoint market makers as further delay might negatively affect the much awaited rebound of the equity market. A market maker is a de...
Following liquidity crisis in the nation’s capital market which is negatively impacting on the both production and service sectors of the economy, the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has said that the upcoming World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa w...
Trading activities on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange at the close of trading on Friday sustained a bullish rally as investors renewed interest in blue chip companies. Consequently, the NSE All-Share Index appreciated by 358....
The country’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) like their counterparts in other emerging economies are perceived as a high risk segment of the market for banks when it comes to lending. Unstable macroeconomic policies further make banks to be ...