Mixed reactions, yesterday, trailed reported plans by Nigerian Bottling Company Plc (NBC), to formally delist its shares from the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). While some experts and shareholders’ group described the development as “surprising”, others said it should be regarded as “sign of...

Nigeria joined the rest of the world to celebrate the International Human Rights Day last week. Many civil society groups and non governmental organisations held meetings and events to commemorate the day. At all the events, the conclusions were the same, that the Federal Government urgently...

The Ondo State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria on Tuesday evening, elected Mrs Olajumoke Anifowose, the daughter of the late first civilian governor of the state, Chief Adekunle Ajasin, as its new chairman. She took over from the former chairman, Mr. Sola Iji, who had been in office...

Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, has blamed inadequate information flow as causative factor for illegal levies, fake tax collectors, touting and other crooked practices in Lagos State. Speaking recently at the fourth Lagos State Taxation Stakeholders’ Conference in Lagos,...

Diamond Bank has announced that it has lend over N8billion to support the small business in the country despite the global economic lull . As a supporter of SMEs in the country, Diamond Bank is a lender to small operators and has promised to even boost their operations more next year. Mrs...

Citing the collective decision by Igbo leaders from the South-east geo-political zone to wait for 2015 presidency, former governor of Abia State and leading presidential aspirant of Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has withdrawn...

Notoriety has its place as the death of Obioma Nwankwo, also known as Osisikankwu, shows. Why the jubilations? Why the expectation that the death of this individual will mark the end of kidnapping and criminality in Abia State ? Expectations like these minimise the depth of challenges from the...

From the deeps of the quagmire that is the endangered professional boxing in Nigeria beckons the lone surviving hope, in the form of Olusegun Ajose who is compelled to sacrifice his own Christmas and New Year pleasures as he pursues what looks to be a career defining assignment early in the new...

One of Nigeria’s surviving foremost nationalists, Chief Anthony Eromosele Enahoro, yesterday passed on in Benin at 87. He died at about 6 a.m. in his residence, No.10, Aideyan Street, Benin. Enahoro went into coma in October and was rushed to the University ...

Former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria, (ACN), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, yesterday joined the rank of presidential aspirants who had carpeted President...