FOLAKE SOKOYA The Centre forAnti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, has said the judiciary is appearingto be firming up in its responsibility to dispense justice againstcriminalities as two former police officers involved in the killing of two ofsix Igbo traders in APO Quarters, Abuja in 2005 (APO six) were sentenced forculpable homicide. The Executive Chairman,CACOL, Debo Adeniran, who spoke on behalf …

TAYO OLANIPEKUN Journalists have been urged to intensify their coverage of the agricultural sector with a view to making it attractive to the youths and reminding the government of the obligation to demonstrate more commitment to agriculture through the budgetary allocation. Head of Oxfam GB Nigeria, Constant Tchona, who made the charge during the week at the opening of a …

PIX 1: Deputy Managing Director, Tony Okpanachi and Managing Director, Charles Kie (middle) join Ecobank female staff during the celebration of International Women’s Day by Ecobank in Lagos on Wednesday   PIX 2 Advertisement Left: Deputy Managing Director, Tony Okpanachi, Acting Country Head, Premier Banking, Chinwe Ekejiuba; Head, Treasury-Corporate Sales; Oluyemisi Olajide, Managing Director, Charles Kie and Group Head, Personal …

TAYO OLANIPEKUN Government at all levels have been charged to take the education of the girl child a prority and discourage early marriage of female children. This is against the backdrop of the International Day for Women, which was celebrated on Wednesday. Speaking in her office on Thursday, the Director General, Office of the Quality Assurance, Lagos State Ministry of …

From Left: Director General, Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA), Mr Olusegun Oshinowo; President NECA, Mr Larry Ettah and Director Membership Services NECA, Mr Timothy Olawale, during a Press Briefing on the Nigerian Economy and Policy Environment, held in Lagos…on Thursday. Advertisement

Nigeria’s total debt rose to N17.36 trillion ($56 bln) as of Dec. 2016 from N12.60 trillion a year earlier, the Debt Management Office said, as the country grappled with its first recession in a quarter of century caused by low oil prices. The domestic economy expects a budget deficit of N2.36 trillion for 2017, with half of it funded through …

Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Company (NLNG) could unlock three times as much gas as the country’s proven reserves and create hundreds of thousands of jobs if it goes ahead with a proposed expansion plan, it said on Wednesday. NLNG, often cited as a successful public private partnership, is a venture between state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Royal Dutch Shell, …

The Nigerian affiliate of AbuDhabi-listed telecoms company, Etisalat, is in talks with 13 Nigerianbanks to renegotiate the terms of a $1.2 billion loan it took out four yearsago after missing a payment. At current official rate, the loan, without interest stands atN377 billion. The Vice President for Regulatory Affairs at Etisalat Nigeria, Ibrahim Dikko,said the company missed payments due to the …

The management of Heritage Bank onTuesday gave one of its Executive Directors, Mrs. Mary Akpobome, a clean billof health, saying she had being performing her duties creditably. In a statement denying an online news portal report that she hadbeen asked to resign her position for allegedly authorising unwholesometransactions, the bank said neither Akpobome nor any of its management teammembers had …

Dayo Emmanuel Ekiti State governor,Mr. Ayodele Fayose has threatened that henceforth, rapists in Ekiti State shallspend the rest of their days in jail. Fayose who disclosedthis at the rally marking the 2017 International Women’s Day in Ado Ekiti theEkiti State capital did not hide his displeasure for the ill-treatment oftenmeted against women. “If you rape an Ekiti woman, you go …