Aso Savings and Loans Plc, a mortgage finance bank, has recorded a total of 40,000 mortgages in the country, about N32 billionsince inception. The amount the bank said, accounted for about 67 per cent of the mortgages in the country. Managing Dir...
CAN YOU ASSESS THE SECURITY OF THE NATION’S AIRPORT? The security protocols implemented at any airport are not only those things you can see with your eyes or hear about, a lot evolve from a well articulated and approved National Security Program...
Not very many people can boast of knowing what this year holds in stock, or understand the likely pains that lie ahead. The only pain, as far as they can see on the horizon, is that of the increase in petrol price or ...
The Central Bank of Nigeria left major monetary indicators unchanged at the end of the maiden policy committee meeting for 2012. Stanley Oronsaye looks at the reasons adduced by major decision makers in taking this stance. That the Monetary Policy Comm...
The nation’s bond market has enjoyed intense patronage over the last two years due to its relative safety, while offering good returns in the face of downturn in the stock market. Stanley Oronsaye, looks at the trend and foresees that inves...
Activities on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange at the end of last week closed in the red zone as the NSE All-Share Index depreciated by 15.02 points or 0.1 per cent to close at 20,877.64 while the market capitalisa...
Before the financial meltdown in 2008, the Nigerian stock market was an investors’ haven. It was a classic bull market and was rated one of the best among the emerging markets by notable rating agencies such as Standard & Poor’s and the...
Sen. Mohammed Sani-Sale said on Sunday that the just concluded by-election into the House of Representatives in Soba Local Government Area of Kaduna State was marked with intimidation. He told Journalists in Zaria that the by-election was not conducted...
Alhaji Musa Dantakarda, a PDP stalwart in Mubi, Adamawa, on Sunday called on opposition parties to support the new Murtala Nyako administration to enable it transform the state. Reacting to Nyako’s victory at the Feb.4, governorship election, Dan...
The Adamawa Police Command has arrested two suspects in connection with election violence during the state's governorship poll held on Saturday. The Spokesman of the command, Altine Daniel, said on Sunday in Yola that the suspects were arrested in ...
The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), on Sunday advised the Federal Government to seek ways of wiping out the Boko Haram sect, using security operatives. The Lagos State Chairman of the CLO, Mr Ehi Omokhuale, said in an interview with newsmen in Lago...
The new season is finally here, and the question everybody is asking, again, is if Tiger Woods is really back? Who wouldn’t love to see Eldrick succeed the way he did from 1996 to 2009, before we all got to know his dirty little secret(s)? Woods ...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Murtala Nyako of the Peoples Democratic Party winner of the Adamawa gubernatorial polls. Nyako polled 302, 953 votes to beat the Action Congress of Nigeria ( ACN) candidate, Markus...
Many Camera Owners Are Content To Shout “Cheese” And Push The Shutter Button To Get An Image, But We Go Under The Hood To Find Out How It Happens There’s no doubt that the digital format has revolutionised the imaging industry and in ...
Former Military Governor of Kaduna State, Col Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (rtd) yesterday urged religious and Traditional Leaders to consciously ponder on the role they have played in the successes Boko Haram has recorded in it’s bloody campaign to des...