Metro

Stakeholders in the Capital Market have been urged to continue to take positive steps to attract and retain both local and foreign investments to stimulate economic growth and developed critical infrastructure necessary for the country’s development. Ag. Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Ms. Mary Uduk stated this at the formal launch of the book ‘Riding the …

Read More »

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday has written a letter of commendation to his deputy, Professor Yemi Osinbajo for his patriotism. Full text of the letter is below Dear Yemi, We give glory to Almighty God for sparing your life. I’m impressed by your tenacious spirit which enabled you to continue on your campaign engagement, despite the shock of the crash. …

Read More »

The National Bureau of Statistics says that private security guards companies employed no fewer than 828, 502 people in Nigeria from 2013 to 2018. The NBS made the disclosure in its Private Security Guards Data from 2013 to 2018 posted on its website on Monday. The bureau, based in Abuja explained that the guards were employed by 1, 110 registered …

Read More »

By Amos Odeh The people Aghoro 1 community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa has kicked against the breach of oil spill procedures in the leak that occurred in the area on May 17, 2018. It would be recalled that a leak on the Trans Ramos Pipeline that ruptured spilled about 1,114 barrels of crude oil into the environment. The …

Read More »

By Simon Ugwu The U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) and All On have officially opened the application window for the 2019 Nigeria Off-Grid Energy Challenge, which will provide up to $100,000 in blended finance per enterprise for the successful applicants. The 2019 application window opens on February 1st and closes on March 15th, 2019. USADF, a founding member of Power …

Read More »

Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Heritage Bank Plc, Ifie Sekibo has tasked stakeholders in the sports industry to key into the vision of the bank to help build a generation of healthy and strong athletes as well as set a platform that will continue to create, preserve and transfer wealth and talents across generations. The MD made the remark at …

Read More »

Udoma Udo, the minister of budget and national planning, says the Nigerian economy will grow by 3.01 percent in 2019 — at variance with the World Bank’s forecast of 2.2 percent in the same year. Udoma who was speaking at the Deloitte Dialogue on Nigeria’s Economic Outlook for 2019, in Lagos, said the proposed 2019 budget is intended to further reposition …

Read More »

Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says he will triple the budget for education sector if elected president. Speaking during the Silverbird Man of the Year event on Sunday, Atiku also said he would end the incessant strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) from his first day as president. The Buhari administration allocated …

Read More »

The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has adjourned the trial of Walter Onnoghen, the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), till February 13, 2019. Onnoghen is standing trial before the CCT over allegations of fraudulent declaration of assets. He was suspended by President Muhammadu Buhari and replaced with Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, although in acting capacity. Advertisement At the resumed …

Read More »

  Athletes earlier today defied early morning downpour to participate at the 4th Access Bank Lagos City Marathon. According to reports, the competition which started at 6.25 a.m. had about 20,000 runners. Some of the competitors passed the night around the National Stadium, Surulere to be close  to the starting point of the 42km race and avoid lateness. An athlete, …

Read More »