The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos ruled on Thursday that the court would proceed with contempt proceedings against Alter-Semper and its bankers in the dispute between Mrs Bukola George, the founder and former Chief Executive Officer of HealthPlus Limited and some directors of HealthPlus Limited, a pharmaceutical retailing...
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It was a thing of joy as the newly built NDDC headquarters situated on the Eastern bye-pass axis of Rivers State was commissioned by the President and Commander-in- Chief of the Armed Forces, Muhammadu Buhari. The above expression was contained in a statement circulated to journalists by Citizens Quest...
Over the last year, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has found it challenging to maintain the rate within a tight band of the official rate within its managed-float system. In recent months, the apex bank has issued a substantial array of policy pronouncements to improve liquidity. These pronouncements...
Silence here means keeping quiet in the face of high expectations and urgency to speak out or act. It is saying nothing and doing nothing when your response is needed. One of the most distressing moments in life and in faith is not hearing from God when you need...
From the dripping political and socioeconomic events in the country, it is abundantly obvious that the defective nature of the nation’s 1999 Constitution (as amended) that has discouraged and crippled development in the country and responsible for the mirage of problems confronting the nation. Its weak provisions has more...
The Debt Management Office (DMO) has decried the country’s debt service to revenue ratio, describing it as a major issue of concern. The Director-General of DMO, Mrs Patience Oniha said this in Abuja on Thursday at the fifth Budget Seminar (webinar) organised by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)....
The Swiss Federal Criminal Court (FCC) has ruled that extraordinary Federal Prosecutor Stefan Keller acted illegally by extending his investigation beyond its remit. Mr Keller was appointed to look into certain meetings that the former Swiss Attorney General, Michael Lauber, had with the FIFA President, Gianni Infantino. However, instead...
The pump price of fuel, also known as Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), may rise as high as to N212.11 per litre the new projected price announced by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), is anything to go by. In anew product pricing template published on its website, the PPRA agency...
By TENEBE ANTHONIA, Lagos- In line with its objective to enhance retail investors’ participation in the Nigerian capital market, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) held a Retail Investors Workshop on Thursday, 11 March 2021. The event was themed, Value Investing vs. Growth Investing was hosted in collaboration with ARM...
BY PROF. IYORWUESE HAGHER – Let me begin my eulogy from the beginning. In the Bible we are told of the first assassination that took place in human history. It was Cain that was driven by envy to kill his brother Abel. In Genesis 4: 10, God, who witnessed...
The Spokesman of the House of Representatives, Mr Benjamin Kalu has stressed the urgent need for an upward review of the N128b annual budgetary allocation of the National Assembly to enable it to carry out its constitutional duties. Mr Kalu who made the call during a briefing at the...
Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have distanced themselves from the bill seeking to move the issue of minimum wage from the exclusive list to the concurrent list. Addressing newsmen after the PDP Governors’ Forum meeting in Abuja, the Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Sokoto State,...
The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has inaugurated the Batch C of the N-Power, National Social Investment Management Systems, NASIMs. At the inauguration in Abuja, the Minister, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq said the initiative would ensure transparency and help address irregularities in the Scheme. She...
You make your marriage what it becomes. If you take responsibility for it in this way, then you can steer it in the direction you want it to go. The interesting thing is that in the early days and period of the relationship, there is so much ‘lovey-dovey’ between...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered 287 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 159,933. As at Thursday (11th, March 2021), the public health agency also recorded eight (8) new COVID-19-related deaths, raising the...
The Governors Forum of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has pledged its support for the Federal Government to tackle the security challenges in the country. Members of the forum led by the governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, declared their support for the government at a meeting held on...
The Nigerian authorities have assured residents that there is no cause for alarm regarding the batch of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine delivered to the country recently. The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) gave the assurance in a statement on Thursday by its Head of Public Relations Unit, Mohammad Ohitoto....
A group of armed robbers have attacked a commercial bank in Okuku in Osun State in south-west Nigeria. The gunmen were said to have attacked the Wema bank branch in Okuku, a city located between Osun and Kwara States. Channels Television gathered that the incident occurred on Thursday in...
Following recent postings and deployments by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet has been appointed as the new Director of Public Relations and Information (DOPRI). The new Spokesperson, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet assumed office on 9 March 2021 as the 17th DOPRI. He took over from...