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The Federal Government has announced that eight satellite prisons located in Bauchi State, North-east Nigeria that were earlier closed down due to the wave of Boko Haram insurgency in the zone have been re-opened soon. Controller-General of the Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS), Ja’afaru Ahmed announced this Thursday in Abuja in a statement signed by the […]

Four World Bank officials had been reportedly drowned at Egbe Dam in Egbe Ekiti, Gbonyin Local Government Area of Ekiti State, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Egbe Dam is the biggest of the six dams in the state. Mrs Folasade Akinrinmola, the chairman of the council and the state police command confirmed this […]

For allegedly excluding Christians during his visit, the United States (US) Secretary of States, Mr John Kerry, the Christian Association of Nigerian (CAN) on Thursday said he was discriminatory, personal and divisive. The organisation therefore warned him to stop interfering in the internal affairs of the country, saying the visit was aimed at furthering the federal government’s plan to […]Read More

The Emir of Kano and former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Muhammadu Sanusi, has cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari against  repeating the mistakes of former President Goodluck Jonathan so his administration does not end up unpopular too. Sanusi also warned Buhari against continuing to blame previous administrations for the nation’s present predicament, saying what […]

Tony O. Elumelu, Chairman of Heirs Holdings and UBA Plc. has advocated entrepreneurship as a veritable solution to achieving poverty reduction in the country.   Elumelu who is also the Founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation delivered a paper themed: “Entrepreneurship, Corporate Social Responsibility and Africapitalism: The Role of The Private Sector In Fighting Poverty in […]

Following a  meeting of Nigerian Bank Executives and officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the suspension of Nigerian banks from Foreign Exchange trade The United Bank For Africa, UBA, has announced that it  has been readmitted into the Forex Exchange Market. The readmission was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday by […]

The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) has sealed Protea Hotel, close to Kuramo Waters, over alleged failure to remit N11.07 million personal income taxes deducted from workers’ salaries. Mrs Ajibike Oshodi-Sholola, Head, Distrain Unit of LIRS, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria during a state-wide tax law enforcement exercise in Lagos on […]

The Executive Director in charge of Public Sector at First Bank, Mallam Dauda Lawal, has revealed what he told the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) when he was detained recently. Lawal, in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, said that he was actually questioned about his relationship with a former Minister of Petroleum […]

In real terms, the Rio debacle, along with the totality of the circumstances surrounding it, is a sad commentary on the values and quality of those in charge of the affairs of the country. It underscores the yawning disconnect between the government and the governed in terms of priority and need. The Nigeria Olympic Committee […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged that the anti-corruption crusade in the country will be deepened and institutionalized to last beyond the life of the current administration. Receiving American Secretary of State, Mr John Kerry, at an audience in State House, Abuja, Tuesday, the President declared: “We will insist on the standards we’re establishing. We are […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)  on Tuesday banned nine deposit money banks (DMBs) from the foreign exchange market, for withholding more than $2 billion belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) from the Treasury Single Account (TSA). The banks are:  First Bank of Nigeria (FBN)- $469m; Diamond Bank Plc-$287m; Sterling Bank Plc-$269m; Sky Bank […]Read More

Fani-Kayode a Former Minister of Aviation and Campaign director to former President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 general election has on Tuesday described the statement of the visiting United States Secretary of State, John Kerry’s as a ‘garbage’. The Former Minister of Aviation said this on his twitter timeline shortly after John Kerry left the Sultan of Sokoto, […]Read More