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Translate Lagos Commodities Exchange set to list first gold instrument On Kindly Share This Story: The Lagos Commodities and Futures Exchange (LCFE) has concluded plans to admit Dukia Gold‘s diversified financial instruments, backed by gold as the underlying asset in a sector worth over N300 trillion. Dukia Gold Chiarman, Mr Tunde Fagbemi, said this at a media parley on Thursday in Lagos. Fagbemi said the instruments which would be in the form of Exchange Traded Notes (ET...

The Platform was conceptualized by Pastor Poju Oyemade to be the hub for intellectual discourse among the news and policy makers to tackle knotty national challenges plaguing the nation. Year after year, it offers robust interventions and each edition is usually a delight to watch by journalists as well as citizens both high and low. The May 1 edition for this year featured the Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of Nigerian Governors Forum, Dr. John Kayode Fayemi as one of the speakers with the ...

Anxiety in Edo community over alleged influx of illegal miners On By Ozioruva Aliu, Benin-City There is anxiety in the Akoko-Edo local government area of Edo state as hundreds of persons suspected to be Illegal miners are flocking into Ikpeshi and neighbouring communities of Atte and others to embark on illegal mining especially gold which is believed to be much in the area after these same persons were flushed out of Dagbala because of their activities that was becoming a security threat. Man...

Bitumen training institute bill scales 2nd reading at Senate On Kindly Share This Story: Senate has passed for second reading a Bill for an Act to establish the Institute of Bitumen Management for training and research in Bitumen Technology at Ode Aye in Ondo State. The passing of the bill, sponsored by Sen. Nicholas Tofowomo (PDP, Ondo), followed its consideration at plenary on Wednesday. Leading debate on the bill, Tofowomo said the government had priority of enhancing economic diversity and...

Dr. Oby Ezekwesili PHOTO:Getty Images Sir: Dr Oby Ezekwesili came into national prominence at the young age of 36 when she was the presidential aide on Due Process to former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999. The former co-founder of Transparency International greatly helped curbed corruption by way of inflated contracts. This earned her national and global recognition which saw her elevation as minister for Solid Minerals and later Education. She was later to become the first World Bank Vic...

Vanguard News GPN governorship candidate, AA Zaura defects to APC On By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The Kano State governorship candidate of Green Party of Nigeria, GPN, Abdulsalam Abdulkarim Zaura, at the weekend, defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kano. This was made known in a statement signed by Media Consultant, A.A Zaura Foundation, Al-Amin Ciroma, where it explained the essence of the decision of A.A Zaura as he is popularly called to dump GPN for the ruling APC, which accor...

Kayode Fasua Senator Kassim Oyofo has expressed regrets that he was instrumental to the establishment of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Oyofo, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was a member of the fourth and fifth National Assembly. He expressed these concerns during an interview with THISDAY at the weekend. He said he was astonished, discovering that the commission, now a cesspit of corruption, had ...

The Governor said his administration has resolved to set the state on the path of effective resource management.

Some of government’s infrastructure affected by dredging and mining activities By Sun Apr 18 2021 Mining and dredging business in Akwa Ibom State is a source of income to the owners of the business, an employer of labour for many and also a major source of raw materials for construction of roads and bridges. Without dredging and mining activities in the state, it would probably have been difficult for the Akwa Ibom State Government to source for sand, a major raw material used for the buildin...

Views: Visits 12 Four family members and three others, on Saturday morning, were shot and butchered by suspected Fulani militia at Mbamondu community in Makurdi Modern Market Council Ward in Benue state. It was gathered that the attackers also inflicted serious injuries on five others out of which three are in critical condition. It was gathered that among those killed were two children of ages 10 and 12. Commenting on the development, an indigene of the community, and the State Commis...