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On Monday, the Nigerian stock market recorded 0.74 per cent appreciation in the equity capitalisation, representing N262.52 billion gain. This raised the market capitalisation from N35.42 trillion reported on Friday, to N35.68 trillion at the close of trading today. The All-Share Index inched higher by 481.32 basis points to 65,202.41 ASI, from 64,721.09 ASI. Also, about 231.59 million shares, valued …

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has called on the main opposition candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, to congratulate the winner, President Bola Tinubu. In a statement issued on Friday, the Executive Director of MURIC, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, implored Atiku to display Islamic brotherhood and political maturity by congratulating the winner. Akintola said that politics …

Malawi women’s football team star Tabitha Chawinga has joined Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) Féminines in France. The former CAF Women Footballer of the Year nominee has confirmed her year-long loan transfer to the French giants from Wuhan Jiangda in China. “It is now official. PSG Féminines is the new home,” she wrote on her Facebook page. PSG have also released a …

Award-winning music star, David Adeleke, aka Davido, has finally reacted to colleague, Dammy Krane’s allegations that he owes him money for royalties of a song he wrote for the OBO crooner. Recall that Dammy Krane recently called out Davido again over alleged debt, pleading with the DMW boss to pay him for the sake of his daughter. Reacting to the …

The Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, said on Wednesday night he would appeal the ruling of the governorship election petitions tribunal on the March 18 election in the state. The tribunal earlier on Wednesday nullified Yusuf’s victory in the election and declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Yusuf Gawuna, as the duly elected governor of the state. In the …

The Niger State government has recently discovered about 200 ghost workers on its payroll. The state’s Commissioner for Finance, Lawal Maikano, disclosed this to journalists shortly after the ministry’s 2024 budget defence on Friday in Minna. He said the discovery followed the deployment of technology by the government to check activities in the state civil service. Maikano said: “Governor Umaru …

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, said on Wednesday that Nigeria’s 63rd Independence Day would be celebrated without the usual fanfare. ⁣ He disclosed this to State House Correspondents after a closed-door meeting with Vice President Kashim Shettima, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Akume, who was silent on issues discussed at the meeting, said October 1 …

●Mulls amnesty programme A Special Court is to be established by the Ogun State Government to try cult-related cases. Also to be set up is a Joint Anti-Cultism Security Task Force comprising all major security outfits, with the mandate to rid the state of the menace of cultism. The state is also proposing an amnesty programme for would-be cultists who …

Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, said on Wednesday that Artificial Intelligence-powered solutions have the potential to address some of Africa’s most pressing challenges, such as limited access to healthcare, food security, financial inclusion, and infrastructure development. In a Keynote address he delivered at the opening ceremony of the 11th edition of the …

Gombe State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a man suspected to have killed a 58 years old mother of eight children, late Hajiya Aishatu Abdullahi Aka Damori. The suspect is one Mustapha Adamu Isah alias (Abbati), aged 18, from Jeka-fari quarters in Gombe, Gombe State. According to the Command PPRO, ASP Mahid Muazu Abubakar who briefes journalists at …