• Nigeria

    Akinyemi advises Fed Govt on cash haul probe

    A former Minister of External Affairs, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi yesterday asked President Muhammadu Buhari not to spare anyone involved in the $43.4 million recovered from a private apartment at Osborne Towers in Ikoyi. He, however, cautioned against putting a foreign intelligence officer on trial in an open court as doing ...

  • Nigeria

    Sterling Bank’s gross earnings rises by 12% to N28.6b in Q1

    Sterling Bank Plc grew headline earnings by 12 per cent to N28.6 billion in the first quarter of 2017 as the bank’s net interest margin improved to 8.2 per cent within the first three months. The first-quarter report released at the weekend showed continuing improvement in the underlying core banking ...

  • Nigeria

    Obasanjo to expatriates, others: don’t undermine Nigeria’s economy

    •Ex-President urges investors to key into economic recovery Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has warned foreign and local firms doing business in Nigeria against engaging in acts that can undermine Nigeria’s economy. Obasanjo counselled the firms that their emphasis should be to make Nigeria self-sustaining in production and consumption, vowing that ...

  • Nigeria

    Atiku To NGE: Partner With Present Administration

    Former Vice President and chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar, has charged the new leadership of the Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE) to partner with the current administration in the dissemination of government programmes as well as other critical groups in the society to see that our ...

  • Nigeria

    Anti-graft War: NIS Withdraws 518 Officers From Airports

    In a bid to conform to the executive order on the ease of doing business in the Country as well as check corruption among its personnel, the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has withdrawn 518 Officers and men from five (5) major International  Airports. The major airports are, Murtala Muhammed International ...

  • Nigeria

    Gov Ugwuanyi Reiterates Commitment To Education

    Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has reiterated his administration’s commitment to partner educational institutions and private organizations towards the improvement of the standard of education in the State. Gov. Ugwuanyi spoke at the College of the Immaculate Conception (CIC), Enugu, when he performed the ground breaking of the ultra-modern ...

  • USA Nigeria

    FG Is Moving Economy On Path Of Prosperity – Onu

    Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, the Minister of Science and Technology, says the present administration was putting measures in place towards moving the economy to prosperity. Onu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the sidelines of the ministry’s Investment Forum in New York that one of such measures was the ...

  • Nigeria

    Obasanjo Warns Expatriates Against Undermining Economy

    Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has warned expatriates doing business in the country not to undermine the country’s economy. Obasanjo who spoke at the weekend in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital at an interactive session with Indian Professionals’ Forum condemned a situation where some of the companies would import sub standard ...

  • Nigeria

    FG’s Zero Oil Plan Will Diversify, Expand Nigeria’s Economy – Awolowo

    Executive director/chief executive officer of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Mr. Olusegun Awolowo, has said the Zero Oil Plan developed by the federal government will help diversify and expand the nation’s ailing economy Awolowo who said the country’s undoing  was her focus on one product said the Zero Oil ...

  • USA

    Political uncertainty, tension, is hurting business - GRTU

    Business is being negatively affected by the intense political tension, the GRTU said this evening while calling for immediate and mature solutions. It said it is alarmed by the way political uncertainty has engulfed all of social and economic spheres. "Business is being negatively affected by the intense political tensions and the ...