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NANS plans to picket South African businesses in Nigeria President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has condemned the continuous killings of Nigerians in South Africa, warning that government will no longer tolerate further attacks on its citizens. He expressed concern ...

KEY players in the nation’s insurance industry have finally agreed to recapitalise the sector, saying it will streamline and strengthen underwriting firms that will survive the new capital regime. They noted that insurers’ capacity would be enhanced and enable the ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said the country is yet to attain self-sufficiency in rice production. He was speaking at the 4th National Discourse organised in Lagos by The Companion, an association of Muslim Men in Business and the Professions ...

As the controversy over the federal government’s suspension of Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) rages, Isoko Advancement Network (IAN) has said that Isoko region in Delta State could spare its land for industries, not for herders. The socio-political pressure group vowed ...

President of the Court of Appeal (PCA), Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa, has cancelled the yearly vacation of judges. She said the decision followed the consideration of the enormous petitions the court faces. In a statement, the court stated that with ...

Nigeria’s aspiration for universal Internet coverage and broadband expansion has received a boost with the materialisation of a $100 million loan from the Indian government. The facility, arranged by the EXIM Bank of India, followed a close collaboration between the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the Chanrai family for investing massively over the years to provide free health services to less-privileged Nigerians. Speaking yesterday at the commissioning of the Tulsi Chanrai Hospital in Abuja, the president said the family’s investments ...

Bayelsa State deputy governor, RAdm. John Jonah, has identified lack of proper planning and poor execution as the bane of Nigeria’s dream of becoming one of the top 20 economies in the world by the year 2020. The deputy governor made ...

Sokoto State Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has received a councilor, eight other indigenes of the state and a nursing mother who were captured by bandits in Zamfara State. He said during the reception ceremony at Government House yesterday that God ...

The Cross River State House of Assembly has joined other organisations in asking the state government to lift the moratorium placed on logging of woods in the state’s forests. Enforced by former Governor Liyel Imoke’s government, the moratorium was meant ...