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By Adedapo Adesanya Mr Obari Gomba, a playwright, has been announced as the winner of the $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature for the 2023 cycle on Drama for his work titled Grit. The prize, sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG), was announced on Friday by Professor Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, the Chairperson of the Advisory Board, at the Grand Award Night ceremony in Lagos, themed Redefinition. She also announced Eyoh Asuquo Etim’s entry Herstory versus ‘History’: A Motherist Rememory in Akachi Ezeigbo’s The Last of the Strong Ones and Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun as the 2023 winner of The

By Adedapo Adesanya The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Norwegian writer, Mr Jon Fosse, for “his innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable,” according to the Royal Swedish Academy. One of his country’s most-performed dramatists, Mr Fosse, 64, has written some 40 plays as well as novels, short stories, children’s books, poetry and essays. Learn more about the 2023 #NobelPrize in Literature: https://t.co/dVT9QJr7PM — The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 5, 2023 Mr Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the academy, announced the prize Thursday in Stockholm. Mr Malm said he reached Fosse by telephone to

By Bliss Okperan The resumption date of the National Diploma (ND) 2 students of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) in Ogba, Lagos, has been postponed by the management to January 2024. The affected students, who are currently undergoing their mandatory Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES), were earlier scheduled to resume for the 2023/2024 academic session on Monday, December 18, 2023. However, information gathered by Business Post from the Student Affairs Officer, Mrs Esther Eke, confirmed that this date has been moved forward to next year after discussions. According to her, the decision to shift the resumption date was

Information has it that ICO, Javvy Technologies Ltd, creator of the Javvy Crypto Solution, the ultimate cross-platform wallet with a built-in, decentralized cryptocurrency exchange, has successfully raised $7 million from an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). It was gathered that the $7 million ICO fund raise yielded some terrific results for Javvy including over a million dollars in token swaps with exciting, progressive crypto projects like Faba, IAM and AgentMile, multiple FIAT investments totalling over $1.25 million, and retail sales of nearly $4.5 million. Javvy also experienced a 650 percent increase in application downloads in April with a 4.5-star average review.

By Dipo Olowookere Commissioner for Finance in Lagos State, Mr Akinyemi Ashade, has revealed that the state government has concluded plans to streamline its tax and revenue collection so as to provide an enabling environment for the survival of small scale enterprises. The Commissioner explained that the proposed harmonization was in response to the appeal of Lagosians, particularly the business community, on multiple taxes collected by government. Speaking on Tuesday at the Tax and Revenue Stakeholders’ Forum organized by the Ministry at LASCOFED Conference Centre Ogba, Lagos, Mr Ashade noted that the forum was organised to address areas of conflict,

By Dipo Olowookere The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), as at the close of business on Tuesday, October 8, 2019, has lost 14.70 percent of its value since the beginning of this year, Business Post is reporting. The local equity market has been facing very difficult challenges since the start of 2019 and predictions that things would get better after the general elections never came to pass. At today’s session, the market depreciated by 0.21 percent as President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2020 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly. Business Post reports that the decline posted by the

By Adedapo Adesanya  Nigeria’s anti-crude theft troop, Operation Delta Safe, has destroyed 50 illegal oil refining sites in the Niger Delta region and arrested 51 suspects in the last week. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, who made this known on Thursday in Abuja while briefing newsmen on the operations of the military, said the troops also eliminated four criminals and recovered arms and ammunition. He added that a total of 578,900 litres of stolen crude oil, 454,330 litres of illegally refined Automotive Gas Oil and 10,000 litres of dual-purpose kerosene (DPK) were recovered during the operations.

By Dipo Olowookere The Nigerian stock market recorded a significant growth of 1.21 percent on Friday after posting a marginal loss of 0.01 percent on Thursday, pushing the year-to-day return forward to 7.85 percent. Business Post reports that this upward trend was boosted by gains recorded by the consumer goods sector. Almost all the sectors posted positive performance yesterday with the exception of the oil and gas sector, which declined by 0.30 percent. However, the consumer goods sector grew by 2.76 percent, banking sector appreciated by 0.91 percent, NSE30 rose by 1.46 percent and NSE50 increased by 1.34 percent. At

By Adedapo Adesanya NASD Plc dragged the NASD Over-the-Course (OTC) Securities Exchange down by 0.06 per cent on Friday, February 11 after its value declined by 93 kobo or 11.0 per cent to trade at N8.43 per unit compared with the previous trading value of N9.36 per unit. As a result of this, the NASD unlisted securities index (NSI) depleted by 0.48 points to 751.43 points from 751.91 points, while the market capitalisation dwindled by N410 million billion to wrap the day at N636.29 billion from N636.7 billion. Business Post reports that the session saw a price gainer and this

By Adedapo Adesanya The conflict in the North East of Nigeria has uprooted 1.9 million Nigerians from their homes, the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has disclosed. This was made known in a statement issued by the UN specialised agency’s Communications Specialist for Nigeria, Mr Geoffrey Njoku, on Tuesday, May 5. The UNICEF report stressed that internally-displaced children in Nigeria accounted for one of the world’s most vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. The agency, in the report titled Lost at Home to assess the risks and challenges facing internally- displaced children, called for urgent actions to protect them. “In North-East,

By Modupe Gbadeyanka Private sector operators on Monday said Federal Government’s engagement of key stakeholders in the development process of the national economy plan showed a genuine desire to rapidly grow the economy, but pointed out that diligent implementation was key to achieving the goal. Captains of industry and heads of the various Chambers of Commerce and Industry across the country, who gathered in Abuja for the consultative forum, variously pointed out that past development plans were rendered useless by either lack of, or poor implementation. They therefore advised that if the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (NERGP) being put