Amaka Obiefuna. Nigeria is on course to reduce the size of its ‘shadow economy’—the production of and trade in legal goods and services that are deliberately and often illegally concealed from public authorities—by 2025, according to a new study from ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants). Emerging from the shadows: the shadow economy to […]

Concerned Kogi Registered Voters (CKRV) has filed a suit at a Federal High Court in Abuja seeking to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from commencing verification of signatures collected in order to recall Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West at senate. Addressing newsmen yesterday in Abuja, convener of the group, Olowosayo Gabriel Sunday, […]

Nigeria’s Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has expressed the readiness of the Federal Government to work with groups assisting Nigerian start-up entrepreneurs. He made the remark on Wednesday Abuja when he paid a visit to “Civic Innovation Lab”, a non-profit organization with offices and facilities set up to support Nigerians in implementing business ideas that […]

Nigeria is negotiating with Walmart, the biggest supermarket chain in the United States, to roast and ship about seven billion dollars worth of cashew nuts. Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbe, stated this briefing State House Correspondents on the outcome of Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting. “They came here and asked us […]

The Police has rubbished the claim of the leader of Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau that he has  some policewomen in custody after abducting them few day ago at a highway ambush. The police in a statement by the spokesman of the Borno State Police Command, Victor Isuku said “there are no policewomen under Boko Haram […]

  A former Governor of Taraba State, Mr. Danbaba Suntai, is dead. The former governor, whose helicopter crashed on October 25, 2012, died in the United States of America. A former Commissioner of Information in the state, Mr. Emmanuel Bello, confirmed the death of the former governor in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja […]

  The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned investors in the Nigerian Capital Market against multiple subscriptions for the same public offer. Mr Naif Abdussalam, the Head of Corporate Communications of SEC, who said this in a statement  in Abuja, noted that anyone who makes multiple subscriptions would forfeit their investment. Abdussalam said the […]