Adedayo Akinwale writes that the ongoing registration and revalidation exercise of the All Progressives Congress has further polarized the power blocs within the ruling party, with the Senator Bola Tinubu’s camp coming out forcefully to condemn the exercise, When the National Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led by the […]

The Senate yesterday ruled out the possibility of being influenced to screen and confirm the immediate past service chiefs as non-career ambassadors. President Muhammadu Buhari had last week forwarded the names of the immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin (rtd); Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai (rtd); Chief of Naval […]

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has called for the arrest and questioning of a self-acclaimed spokesman of Fulani groups and All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Mr. Garus Gololo over alleged comments on Benue killings. Gololo had recently alleged that Ortom was sponsoring attacks on Fulanis residing in Benue State. Miffed by the allegation, the […]

The Kaduna State Government yesterday confirmed 19 people killed, with many others sustaining injuries following bandits’ attacks on communities in Birnin Gwari and Kajuru Local Government Areas of the state. But eyewitnesses put the death toll at 24. In a statement confirming the incident, the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr. Samuel […]

President Muhammadu Buhari, former Lagos State Governor, Senator Bola Tinubu; former Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; President, African Development Bank (ADB), Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina; and the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Amina Mohammed, are among dignitaries lined up to speak to participants at Ehingbeti, the Lagos economic summit, […]

The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said the prices of foods rose in November, 2020. It made this known in the Executive Summary of its “Selected Food Prices Watch – November 2020”. The report said the average price of 1kg of yam tuber increased year-on-year by 16.26 per cent and decreased month on month by […]

Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) yesterday put its overall 2020 performance from January to October at N4.122 trillion. It said this is in spite of Covid-19 challenges, financial Act 2019 incentives and palliatives concessions. FIRS added that its non-oil revenue collection performance in the same period stood at N2.8 trillion and oil revenue collection performance […]

The President, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Mrs Toki Mabogunje, has projected that the Nigerian economy would end the year in a negative growth territory within the region of minus two per cent.Mabogunje said this at the LCCI’s 132nd Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Thursday in Lagos.   She said that inflation rate […]

The Federal Government has declared Jan. 1, 2021 to Dec. 31, 2030 as “The Decade of Gas Development for Nigeria”. Chief Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, made the declaration on Thursday at the Seventh (Virtual) Joint International Energy Forum and International Gas Union (IEF-IGU) Ministerial Gas Forum in Malaysia. Sylva said Nigeria […]

Buhari administration strengthening Public Private Partnership framework, VP adds Adopting new models of investments for infrastructural development in the country is now an imperative as reliance on public expenditure alone is no longer sufficient or capable of meeting the $3 Trillion needed to bridge the infrastructural deficit over the next 30 years. Vice President Yemi […]