The Nigerian Stock Exchange(NSE) has extended the deadline for quoted insurance companies to submit their 2018 financial results, following their transition to the International Financial Reporting Standard, IFRS 9. This gives the insurance companies till July 31 to submit their results against the statutory time frame of June 30 every year. The … Read more
20 planes, owned by private individuals, are among moveable assets worth N1. 26 trillion registered on the National Collateral Registry (NCR) platform. Registrar of NCR, Alhaji Mohammed Mainasara, disclosed this in Abuja, adding that 65,370 moveable assets had been registered on the NCR’s portal as at March 20. The NCR is a … Read more
THE National Christian Elders Forum, NCEF, has dissociated itself from the recent congratulatory visit to President Muhammadu Buhari on his victory at the election, describing the visit as subjudice, as the determination of who won the 2019 general election is still before the court. A statement by the group’s President, Elder Solomon Asemota(SAN), said … Read more
The Lagos State Government has acquired and commissioned a briquette-making facility, donated by the Ecological Fund Office(EFO), for waste recycling. Receiving the facility, Lagos Waste Management Authority(LAWMA) Consultant on Business Development, Mr. Bode Fanimo affirmed the commitment of the agency to making judicious use of the facility by providing solution for agro-forestry waste. Fanimo, who … Read more
Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, yesterday, praised President Muhammadu Buhari for declining assent to the National Housing Fund (Establishment) Bill 2018 sent to him by the National Assembly. NECA, in a statement, said the body was very happy that President Buhari directed that the Bill be returned to the National Assembly for amendment of the … Read more
Lagos State government has received and accommodated 138 internally-displaced persons, IDPs, created by building collapse and the ongoing demolition of distressed buildings at the State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Resettlement Centre, Igando, Alimosho Local Government Area of the state. The other resettlement camp at Agbowa, Ikorodu area of the state, was yet to be opened … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived Dakar, capital of Senegal, ahead of the country’s presidential inauguration on Monday, April 1. The disclosure was made on Monday, April 1, by the special adviser to the president on media and publicity, Femi Adesina. According to Adesina, President Buhari met with President Macky Sall of Senegal as he arrived … Read more
The presidency has offered condolences to the family and friends of Kolade Johnson, a youth who was allegedly shot dead by policemen from Anti-Cultism Unit of Lagos state command on Sunday, March 31. The presidency took to its Twitter page to offer its condolences to the family and friends of the victim, assuring that the … Read more
Obasanjo, a former member of the PDP, said there are hypocrites within the party and that these set of people lack commitment to the organisation’s move to return to the days of its glory. The Nation reports that the former president lamented that many leaders within the party are still preoccupied with what comes their … Read more
There was palpable tension in Osogbo, the capital of Osun state on Monday, April 1, when a contingent of anti-riot policemen stormed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s state secretariat, located around Biket area of the town. Journalists reports that though the policemen did not enter the premises of the 3-storey building, their presence caused apprehension … Read more
The Senate Committee on Finance on Monday queried the Federal Ministry of Finance for high budgetary releases to itself and some of its parastatal agencies. Members of the committee raised the question when officials of the ministry appeared before them to defend their 2019 budget proposals. The committee noted that amid complaints of paucity of … Read more
…as Onnoghen’s lawyer, Awomolo, describes FG as accuser, investigator, prosecutor, witness, judge The suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria(CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, yesterday, opened his defence to the allegation that he failed to declare his assets as prescribed by the law, as a witness narrated to the Code of Conduct Tribunal( CCT) how he … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has said the campaign trail was an eye-opener for him, assuring Nigerians that he will do his best for the country and her citizens when he begins a second term in office on May 29, while appreciating those that voted him in the election. He spoke while receiving the Board … Read more
The acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Tanko Muhammad, yesterday, decried what he termed as the enormous challenges facing justice administration in the country, adding that some magistrates take turns to share courtrooms. Justice Muhammad, in a keynote address at the opening ceremony of 2019 refresher course for Magistrates, at the National Judicial … Read more
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, has said the legislature was neither designed to be subservient to the executive or judiciary, but that the three arms of government were created to work as partners to achieve democratic growth and development in the country. Dogara, who said these at the … Read more
Jones Abiri, the journalist who was arrested on Saturday by armed men suspected to be operatives of the Department of State Service, DSS, has been released. The Bayelsa-based magazine publisher was released, yesterday, from the secret police’s detention facility in Abuja, his lawyer said. “He has just been released around 2 p.m.,” … Read more
Nigeria’s ruling party has spoken on purported disagreement between the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi over the alignment of the Rivers State APC with the governorship candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Awara Biokpomabo. Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, APC National Publicity Secretary, stated … Read more
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to end the “unjust persecution of the Chief justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen”. The body also accused both the hierarchies of the Code of Conduct Tribunal and Court of Appeal as well as the acting CJN, Tanko Mohammed, of … Read more
Suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, yesterday entered his defense as he brought in the first defence witness to court. Defense counsel, Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN), led in evidence one Lawal Busari, who is Justice Onnoghen’s driver. In his evidence, Busari told the court how he drove Onnoghen to the Code of Conduct … Read more
Nollywood actress, Adesua Etomi, threw her weight behind calls by Nigerians on social media demanding for the reform of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad popularly known as SARS. Reports over the weekend alleged that a stray bullet from officers attached to the SARS unit shot dead a Nigerian youth, Kolade Johnson, who had gone to watch … Read more