Union Bank of Nigeria (UBN) Plc, recorded a pre-tax profit in the first half of this year as the group’s core banking operations helped to cushion...
In from Ali Smart … The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is likely to announce a new exchange rate and other fiscal policy regime at the...
Vice president, Yemi Osinbajo has said there is a plot by the Boko Haram sect to bomb the residence of VIPs (Very Important Persons) in the...
Ex-militant and founding member of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) Chief Government Ekpemupolo, who has hitherto maintained a low profile since...
Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court in Lagos has temporarily put paid to plans by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to effect a...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it will raise the bar in the conduct of elections in the country by using the forthcoming governorship...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has set aside about N252bn as credit to support Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (SMEs) owned by women, to...
In from Success Allantee Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc, Nigeria’s largest flour-milling company, would be distributing N5.51 billion as cash dividends to shareholders for the immediate...
Contrary to statements credited to the immediate past National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki that his office secured the release of the $15 million cash for...
In the stand-off between the two factions in the House of Representatives over the principal offices, there appears to be a disagreement within the camp of...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa … Senators against the election of Senate President Bukola Saraki are unrelenting in their plans to remove him from office before September....
In from Ali Smart … The Federal University Pensioners’ Association (FUPA) has uncovered an alleged plot by a federal government agency, Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD,)...
By Olugu Olugu Orji … Someone who had read a piece I wrote some time ago titled, “How I became a Nigerian” confronted me with this...
As part of efforts to address the issue of unclaimed dividends and encourage patronage of the market, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Central Bank...
A group, the Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP) has approached the Federal High Court Lagos to stop the ongoing dredging of the Atlantic Ocean and...
The World Bank unveiled a plan to grant Nigeria a $2.1 billion loan to rebuild infrastructure in the Boko Haram ravaged North Eastern zone. The plan,...
On a day the new Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Major-General Abayomi Olonisakin, unveiled an agenda aimed at bringing to an end the menace of the...
In from Success Allantee… Investors staked about N16 billion on quoted equities yesterday as the equities market reopened with sustained price rally. As bargain-hunters continued to...
Nigeria’s earnings from crude oil will drop from $88 billion it was last year to about N52 billion this year, losing about $36 billion. This, according...
The controversy over the sum of N1.45 billion paid as legal and consultancy fees by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) for the liquidation of the...
According to reports submitted by 64 quoted companies to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) investors earned about N233.7 billion from dividend payments in the stock exchange...
Still pumped up on its renewed vigour to bring corrupt public officials to book, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is soon to dust its...
Emerging reports say that the health condition of Mr. Gordon Obuah, former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to President Goodluck Jonathan may taken a turn for the...
President Muhammadu Buhari in an article published in the Washington Post on Monday wrote on the resolve of his cabinet to fight corruption and the Boko...
One week after their appointments, President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the Senate President Bukola Saraki, for the Senate for the screening and confirmation of the...
The immediate past National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki may not be totally ignorant of the reasons his residences were raided by operatives of the...
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde has come under the scrutiny of over 20 civil society organisations (CSOs) who unsatisfied...
As the recurrent scarcity of petrol products persists in some parts of the country, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on one side, and major marketers...
Some prominent lawyers in the country have berated the former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col Sambo Dasuki (retd) for claiming that the recent search on his...
While the federal government is yet to decide what to do with the subsidy regime, the bill continues to pile up, as Nigeria’s current daily subsidy...
Displeased with the nonpayment of about N1.9 billion as debt accruing for the protection of pipelines contract terminated recently, the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) has threatened...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the Muhammadu Buhari administration is free to probe past administrations, including that of immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan,...
In from Ali Smart… The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Dr. Paul B. Orhii, is currently enmeshed in...
Marketers of petroleum products in the country have lamented that they are finding it difficult to source dollars to finance import transactions; even with naira equivalent...
In from Success Allantee… Zenith Bank Plc, Nigeria’s second most capitalised banking stock and fifth most capitalised company, came under intense selling pressure last week as...
Barely 48 hours after operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) ended a siege on the residence of the immediate past National Security Adviser (NSA),...
By Ali Smart The planned upward review of electricity tariff by the electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) nationwide may take effect in October. Investigation revealed that most...
The Federal Government has selected Brass Island, Bayelsa State as an Oil and Gas Free Zone. This was made known by the MD/CEO of the Oil...
The management of the FirstNation Airways has said the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) is to blame for the incident in which two of its...
The National Broadcasting Commission on Friday said it was able to cut off the transmissions of the illegal Radio Biafra, by blocking it from Nigeria’s airwaves...
The Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has said that some financial institutions in the country may encounter sudden challenges as a result of their poor governance...
Former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), has said the invasion of his house in Abuja on Thursday is a sheer witch-hunt, and part...
In from Nifemi Daniel… English club Tottenham has tabled an eight million pound offer for Super Eagles winger, Victor Moses, who has travelled with the Chelsea...
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointmentedMr. Abdullahi Muhammadu as the new Commandant-General of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, replacing Dr. Ade Abolurin, who has retired...
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has said even though he helped former President Goodluck Jonathan become president, he could not help him do the job. Obasanjo who...
About 250 people escaped death on Friday at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal 2 (MMA2) Lagos when two aircraft belonging to FirstNation Airways collided on the...
Every week we reward a reader with N10, 000 for the funniest and most appropriate caption to the silent cartoon. The first competition was won by...
The decision of the Osun State House of Assembly to set up a probe panel to investigate the allegations of financial recklessness leveled against Governor Rauf...
The former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki who was only recently relieved of his position, came under scrutiny as officials of the State Security Service,...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has shunned the directive of the All Progressive Congress (APC) on the selection of principal officers...
