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By Modupe Gbadeyanka A veteran Nigerian actor, Mr John Okafor, popularly known as Mr Ibu, has lost one of his legs to amputation, his family has confirmed. Doctors treating the movie star cut off the leg to quicken his recovery after undergoing seven successful surgeries. His family recently appealed for support from Nigerians over the deteriorating health of the superstar. Several persons heeded the call, enabling him to get the required medical care from doctors. In an update on Monday, his family thanked Nigerians for standing by him, disclosing that one of his legs had been amputated by the doctors.

By Modupe Gbadeyanka A foremost pay-tv service provider in Africa, MultiChoice, has raised an alarm that its over $85 million investments in local content through Africa Magic are under threat from piracy. The Africa Magic channel airs movies produced by local filmmakers across the continent. MultiChoice said it pumped that amount of money into domestic content over the last few years to create opportunities for young creators to earn a living from their work and for Africa to tell its authentic stories. It noted that this was done through the production and acquisition of films promoting the African culture, but

By Dipo Olowookere The local bourse retreated to the red zone for the second time this week on Thursday, going down slightly by 0.09 percent. This occurred after the stock market recorded two successive upward trends on Tuesday and Wednesday. It was observed that stocks in the Consumer Goods space performed woefully today with the sector going down by 0.23 percent. However, other sectors finished in the green territory with the banking space growing marginally by 0.03 percent, Industrial sector by 0.05 percent, Insurance by 0.91 percent and the oil and gas by 0.47 percent. The All-Shares Index (ASI) depreciated

By Dipo Olowookere The portfolios of shareholders of Axa Mansard Insurance Plc is about to increase as a result of the bonus share proposal of the board of directors. The underwriter said it plans to share to investors new stocks of the company on the basis of 17 new equities for every seven held by them as at the close of business on December 14, 2020. Before this new shares are offered, the firm wants to increase the authorised share capital of the company from N5.250 billion to N18.000 billion with the creation of additional 25.500 billion ordinary shares of

Niger Delta leaders under the aegis of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) have condemned what they called lopsided appointments into top management positions at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its subsidiaries and departments in favour of the northern part of the country. Their position was contained in an open letter entitled Re: Addressing the Continued Injustice Against the Niger Delta People Vis the Lopsided Appointments in the NNPC and its Subsidiaries/Departments addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari at the weekend. The leaders called on the president to urgently correct the abnormality and also reaffirmed the call for proper restructuring

By Adedapo Adesanya The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has disclosed that Nigeria saw a 65.7 per cent or N76.77 billion increase in earnings from the solid minerals sector in 2021 to N193.59 billion from the N116.82 billion achieved in 2020. This upward trajectory has been on for the past five years, according to a report from the agency. The Executive Secretary of NEITI, Mr Orji Ogbonnaya Orji, however, lamented that this is still abysmal considering the potential of the sector to the Nigerian economy. He said this while presenting the solid minerals sector report in Abuja, noting that

By Adedapo Adesanya The new Minister of Power, Mr Abubakar Aliyu, who assumed duty on Monday, has said a critical duty of his management is to ensure that “a steady power supply is delivered to Nigerians.” He made this disclosure in Abuja where he urged stakeholders in the power sector to work together as a team in order to ensure Nigerians enjoy uninterrupted electricity. On September 1, 2021, President Muhammadu Buhari sacked the former Minister of Power, Mr Sale Mamman as well as the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Sabo Nanono due to poor performance. While taking over

By Dipo Olowookere Acting Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Ms Mary Uduk, has warned newly qualified authorised dealing clerks of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) to abide by the highest principled standard expected in their profession. On Monday, July 15, 2019, a total of 46 new stockbrokers were inducted after going through rigorous trainings at the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS) and the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). Ms Uduk, while addressing the new stockbrokers at their induction ceremony in Lagos recently, said they must always maintain the integrity of their profession and imbibe culture of compliance

By Modupe Gbadeyanka The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday closed the week on a negative note as the All-Share Index (ASI) and the market capitalisation depreciated by 8.66 points and N3 billion respectively to close at 25,746.52 points and N8.908 trillion. This reversed the 1.11 percent rise the market recorded yesterday against the 0.03 percent loss today, leaving the year-to-date return at -4.20 percent. But despite the N3 billion lost by investors in contrast to the N98 billion gain on Thursday, the market breadth ended positive on Friday with 16 gainers compared with 14 losers. Lafarge lost N2.50k today

By Ebitonye Akpodigha Three Nigerian judges have been sacked by the National Judicial Council (NJC) for alleged misconduct and fraud. A statement signed on Friday by the Acting Director of Information of NJC, Mr Soji Oye, disclosed that the affected judges were involved in delivering controversial rulings and took bribe in the course of their adjudicating in cases brought before them. The affected judges are Ladan Tsamiya of the Illorin division of the Court of Appeal, I. A. Umezulike of the Enugu High Court and Kabiru Auta of Kano State Federal High Court. They were suspended by the commission, but