…As cleric warns youths against violence, hooliganism The Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission (KWASIEC) has commenced a training programme for 141 facilitators that will participate in the conduct of the November 18 local government election in the state. The electoral body is organising the three-day training programme in collaboration with the International Foundation for Electoral […]
…As calls for his sack thicken The chief executive of Kenya’s election board, who the opposition has demanded must be fired before a repeat presidential election scheduled for Oct. 26, said on Friday he was taking three weeks of leave. According to agency report, Ezra Chiloba said he had taken a personal decision to take […]
The Federal Character Commission in Abuja unveiled a portal that would monitor and ensure justice and fairness in the distribution of national resources across the country. The acting Executive Chairman of the commission, Dr Shettima Abba, said at a five- day workshop on its usage, organised for Desk Officers of Ministries, Agencies and Departments (MDAs) […]
31st December 2017 represents an important date in Nigerian capital market. The date has been fixed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as deadline for free –dividend mandate registration and also deadline for multiple account regularization. Investor usually buy shares in the capital market either from the primary market or the secondary, market, it […]
The Nigerian Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, has faulted the imposition of the sum of N450,000 as a financial sanction for power consumers caught in meter bypass, by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC. It will be recalled that NERC during the 19th monthly power sector meeting had drafted financial sanctions ranging from N50, 000 […]
A Bill for a law to establish the National Electoral Offences Commission has passed second reading at the Senate. The Bill, sponsored by Sen. Abubakar Kyari (APC-Borno), is seeking adequate deterrence and sanctions for undemocratic forces in the electoral environment. In the lead debate, Kyari said that electoral crimes led to low quality, corrupt and […]
Active users of telecommunications services in the country increased to 154,529,780 in December 2016, the Nigerian Communications Commission has said. The telecommunications industry regulator made this known in its Monthly Subscriber/Operator Data on Tuesday in Lagos. It said that the active telecommunications service customers increased by 580,330 on the figure in November, which stood at […]