NFIU

The Senate on Thursday, began consideration of a bill for a law to institute the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Agency (NFIU), currently under the EFCC, thereby moving a step closer to making the country’s financial intelligence unit totally independent.

The Senate on Wednesday passed the Whistleblower Protection Bill.

UBA

The United Bank for Africa (UBA) on Tuesday drove activity on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) with a turnover of 2.09 billion shares valued at N19.76 billion.

The Nigerian Senate has resumed confirmation of Nominees forwarded by the President after the exercise was suspended two weeks ago. The Senate after yesterday's executive session resumed the consideration of matters relating to the confirmation of nominees forwarded by the President when the Senate's INEC Committee submitted its report on the screening of 12 nominees for the position of Resident Electoral Commissioners.

Reps

The House of Representatives’ Public Accounts Committee has set up a six man panel to further investigate an alleged disbursement of N1.47 billion loan to unspecified beneficiaries by the Nigeria Directorate of Employment (NDE).

Former President Goodluck Jonathan

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said that Nigerians still believed in the capacity of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to lead the country after months of leadership crisis.