BOI To Promote Enterprise In Ekiti With N1bn Loan         The Bank of Industry has expressed the bank’s readiness to provide credit facilities to the tune of one billion naira to empower entrepreneurs in Ekiti State. BOI Manager (Ondo and Ekiti states), Mr Seyi Ashaolu, said the...

INEC Job and The Risk Elements By Eric Teniola     As expected the tenure of Professor Mahmood Yakubu (58) as chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission ends on Monday November 9. Then came the announcement by Professor Yakubu that the presidential election will hold February 18, 2023...

Kerosene: Price Per Litre Increased By 0.42% Month-on-month – NBS       According to the data recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the average price per litre paid by consumers for National Household Kerosene increased by 0.42% month-on-month and by 9.27% year-on-year, from N346.53...

Lagos Atop As States’ IGR Drops By 11.7%       The Internally Generated Revenue of the states dropped to N612.87bn in the first six months of 2020 from N693.91bn in the corresponding period of 2019. The National Bureau of Statistics disclosed on Tuesday in its report published on...

Ekiti, 2 Others Earmarks N5.7bn For Travels, N2.5bn For Agric Despite talks about the need to diversify the economy away from the dependence on the oil sector, the agriculture sector suffers low budgetary allocation across all states. In their 2018 budgets, three states, Ekiti, Ondo, and...

Ekiti, Rivers Demand Share Of $1 billion Insurgency Fund The controversy on the Federal Government’s plan to spend $1 billion to combat terrorism in the country took a new twist as Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, his Ekiti counterpart Ayodele Fayose and Bayelsa Governor Seriake...