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Members of the National Association of Resident Doctors have asked the Federal Government to honour its agreement with the union. They warned that should the government fail to honour its agreement in the next four weeks, they would be forced to declare another indefinite nationwide industrial action. President of NARD, Dr Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, said they have been given a leap of faith to believe in the system and hope that […]

Showbiz personalities, Sunny Neji, Asha Gangali and Matthew Ohio, have been appointed to the board of the Musical Copyright Society Nigeria. The appointment of Neji and Gangali followed MCSN’s agreement with the Performing Musicians’ Employers’ Association of Nigeria, which provides that the music body would have two seats on the board of MCSN. On the other hand, Ohio’s appointment was said to be based on his wide interest and representations […]

The Senate Public Accounts Committee has summoned a former managing director of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Gimba Kumo, to appear before it to explain the rationale behind the alleged irregular award of N3bn when he was at the helms of affairs of the bank. The Senate panel, currently scrutinising the 2015-2018 report of the Auditor-General for the Federation, took the decision following a query raised against the […]

Electricity generation in the country fell below the 4,000 megawatts mark on Sunday as 11 plants were idle, even as several others suffered declines in the output. Total power generation fell to 3,922.2MW as of 6am on Sunday from 4,394MW on Saturday, according to data obtained from the Nigerian Electricity System Operator. Eleven of the power plants on the national grid did not generate any megawatts of electricity as of […]

The Corporate Affairs Commission Sunday stated that following the successful deployment of an end-to-end registration module, it was now prioritizing the reduction of the registration circle for new companies to just three hours before the end of year 2021. Registrar-General of the commission, Garba Ababukar, gave the indication at a dinner in honour of the Chairman, Governing Board, CAC and Nigerian Ambassador Designate to the Kingdom of Spain, Ademola Seriki. […]

The Nigerian Stock Exchange All-Share Index and market capitalisation depreciated by 0.13 per cent to close the week at 38,866.39 and N20.33tn respectively. All other indices finished lower with the exception of NSE Premium, NSE MERI Growth, NSE Consumer nGoods, NSE Lotus II and NSE Growth Index which appreciated by 0.62 per cent, 0.28 per cent, 1.12 per cent, 1.11 per cent and 0.62 per cent while the NSE ASeM […]