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The Federal Government will welcome collaboration with the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in key aspects of improving the economy including the Ease of Doing Business, the privatization of public enterprises, amongst others, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN.  Prof. Osinbajo stated this in Abuja today when a delegation from the Nigerian Stock Exchange led […]

Nigeria’s premier financial services provider and Bank of first choice, First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced that its Firstmonie network has processed a cumulative transaction value of N1 trillion from its relaunch in January 2018. The network also achieved nationwide coverage in record time, enabling access to financial services for many locations that never […]

 The UnitedBank for Africa(UBA) announced today that Mr Abdoul-Aziz Dia will join the bank’s Board of Directors subject to the approval of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Mr Dia, a Senegalese citizen, has over 25 years of banking experience garnered from several countries across the globe, including the United Kingdom, France,Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Senegal, Kenya […]

Barely a day after the Kano State House of Assembly (KNHA), approved the amendment of the Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs law, paving way for Governor Abdullahi Ganduje to sign the bill into law that creates four new emirates and whittles down the Emir of Kano’s power and influence,  UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday […]

The ongoing scheming, alliances and counter-alliances trailing attempts by the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) to micro-zone the posts of House Speaker to Femi Gbajabiamila and Senate presidency to Senator Ahmed Lawan continues to upstage the shifting sands of high tide politics that is enmeshed in cutthroat intrigues and backdoor negotiations and horse-trading between strange […]

The main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the court of appeal judgement which upheld Gboyega Oyetola of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of Osun State governorship election of September 2018. “Most certainly, we shall approach the Supreme Court for final adjudication on this matter. We appeal to PDP members […]

The prevailing power blackout In Nigeria may last longer than expected the national electricity grid collapsed three times in less than 24 hours. The Eko Electricity Distribution Company Thursday evening confirmed that there was a total system collapse of the Transmission Company of Nigeria national grid on Wednesday afternoon and again collapsed twice on Thursday. […]

The stage was set for the legal tussle for the nation’s highest office after the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, Wednesday commenced hearing in the petitions filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, the PDP and three other political parties and their presidential candidates against the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday presided over the longest meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) in the history of his administration at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting which started at about 11.00am, was still on going as at the time of filing this report (9.25pm). […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has told Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki that “he is not above the law.” Acting spokesman of the commission, Tony Orilade said in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday. The spokesman was reacting to a statement, “EFCC Stop Witch-Hunting Saraki” credited to Saraki’s media aide, Yusuph Olaniyonu. According […]

South Africans went to the polls yesterday (May 8, 2019) in the country’s sixth democratic elections since 1994. Some say the elections were the country’s biggest since the end of White minority rule 25 years ago. The Apartheid system  of White minority rule, which became official state policy in 1948, crumbled after a long and […]

For the apolitical, it could seem all exhausting; the furor over the renewed investigations into the expenditure of the Kano State Emirate Council under Lamido Sanusi II and the public shadow-boxing and proxy war between Emir Sanusi II and Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, who seems determined to remove the Emir; or splinter the emirate to […]