The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Nigeria’s economic outlook for 2018 remains challenging as private sector lending remains low and foreign exchange inflows are mostly short-term. IMF in a statement issued in Washington on Friday by Lucie Fouda, the Fund’s Press Officer, said higher oil prices and portfolio flows hadContinue Reading
A security cordon has been thrown on Ekiti as the simultaneous accreditation and voting process is set to commence in Saturday’s governorship election. Correspondents of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) spread across the three senatorial districts report that armed policemen and personnel of sister security agencies such as theContinue Reading
The United States President Donald Trump flies into “hot spot” Britain on Thursday hours after casting doubt on Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans for leaving the European Union. Protests are planned across the country where the president says the people like him a lot. After a NATO summit where heContinue Reading
The Niger Government on Thursday deployed all political appointees to the 742 political wards across the state to participate in the ongoing continuous voters registration in the state. Alhaji Danjuma Saulau ,Commissioner for Information, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna on Thursday. He said allContinue Reading
Ebonyi Government says it will pay the July 2018 salaries of its workers before the month’s 13th day in spite of states not receiving the federation allocation since June. Chief Obinna Nwachukwu, the Commissioner for Finance made the disclosure on Thursday in Abakaliki while addressing newsmen. Nwachukwu said that theContinue Reading
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has requested Muslims to start looking for the new moon of Zulki’ida 1439AH from Friday July 13. Prof. Sambo Junaidu, Chairman, Advisory Committee on Religious Affairs, Sultanate Council, Sokoto, quoted the Sultan as making the request in a statement on Thursday inContinue Reading
The Executive Secretary of Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Mr Waziri Adio, on Thursday in Abuja said Nigeria had had attained above meaningful progress on the EITI Validation index. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that EITI is a world body that seeks global standard for the goodContinue Reading
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned Wednesday’s alleged physical attack on Gov. Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti by policemen deployed for Saturday’s governorship election in the state. Addressing a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday, National Chairman of PDP Mr Uche Secondus, described the incident as “a complete attack onContinue Reading
The Federal Controller of Works, Lagos, Mr Adedamola Kuti, on Wednesday in Lagos said that the emergency rehabilitation/maintenance of the Third Mainland Bridge project would begin on July 27. Kuti who disclosed this a stakeholders’ meeting at the Ministry of Works office in Lagos. He said that the repair worksContinue Reading
