Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc has recorded a profit after income tax of N3.61 billion in the year ended 2019, a 214 per cent increase from N1.15 billion recorded in 2018. According to the firm, its gross premium rose by 18 per cent from N15.84 billion in 2018 to N18.7 billion last year. Net premium income […]

THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the provisional list of candidates for the September 19 Edo State governorship election. National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, urged the public to go through the nomination forms, affidavits and documents submitted by the parties on behalf of their candidates. He said […]

THE Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC) was on Tuesday directed to develop more strategies that will put the country on a sound economic lever. President Muhammadu Buhari gave the directive during a virtual audience he granted the Prof Doyin Salami-led PEAC. The President, according to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and […]

OYO State House Assembly on Tuesday held a special sitting in honour of the late former governor Abiola Ajimobi. Addressing the Assembly, Speaker Adebo Ogundoyin said the news of the death of Ajimobi filtered into the state like a dream. He said Ajimobi’s death was unexpected and painful because he died at a time his […]

THE Nigerian Army has said the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, is in Katsina State on an operational tour of formations and units under 8 Division to assess their operational readiness. It said the Army chief is not relocating to the state due to increasing attacks and killings by badits. Buratai is also […]

THE Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC) Governors’ Forum, Kebbi State Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, has said APC governors will mobilise for the victory of the party’s governorship candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, in the coming election. He was responding to questions on APC’s chances in the coming polls in Edo and Ondo states. Bagudu hoped that […]

THE Secretary, Benin Traditional Council (BTC), Frank Irabor, has described as cordial, the relationship of Benin monarch, Oba Ewuare II, with President Muhammadu Buhari, and former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. Irabor said Oba of Benin was shocked over the viral fake video, in which he was alleged to […]

The Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State has urged the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to carry out testing and isolate lawmakers and other aides that accompanied Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu to Abuja to purchase nomination and expression of interest forms of the All Progressives Congress. It said it was concerned about the possibility of […]

In effort to fulfil its mandate, the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), said it has taken over a factory and other assets belonging to Polema Industries Limited, and its chief promoter, Emmanuel C. Obi, over an indebtedness of over half a billion naira. The takeover comes on the order of Hon. Justice F.O.G. Ogunbanjo […]

Chukwu Obi, a crew on board a liner vessel, left home early March 2020, for a voyage that was originally scheduled to last for 35 days. Based on the initial plan in the contract he signed with the shipping company, he was supposed to return to his pregnant wife, who was due to put to […]

Fault N1.7b consultation fee award Aviation workers yesterday rejected the planned concession of the big four airports in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Kano, describing the processes as faulty and unilateral decision of the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika. The workers, under the coalition of the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), Air Transport […]

Appeal Court strikes out Oshiomhole’s suit The Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee (CEONCPC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has approved the appointment of former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, and the governor of Niger State, Abubakar Sani Bello to chair the party’s reconciliation committees for Edo and Ondo states. In a statement yesterday, APC’s Deputy […]