. As AMCOW Launches Its Knowledge Management Hub Of Hubs By: Nkem Ekeopara Nigeria’s former Minister in-charge of water resources and sanitation, and the first president of African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) Barrister Mukhtari Shehu Shagari, CFR, has called on the United Nations (UN) to include... Read more
The Council of Ulamas in Kano State has denied endorsing the National leader of All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 2023 presidential ambition. The State Council Chairman, Sheikh Ibrahim Khalil, made the clarification while speaking with newsmen in Kano on Sunday. Recall that Bola Ahmed Tinubu was in Kano... Read more
The Lagos State Health Management Agency (LASHMA), in its commitment to ensure that residents at the grassroots have access to affordable, effective and quality healthcare, has partnered with First Bank of Nigeria Limited to utilise its over 13,000 Firstmonie Agents as payment channels for the Lagos State Health Scheme... Read more
Wife of the Rivers State Governor, Suzzette Nyesom-Wike , has urged Golf players among ladies to continue to encourage and draw strength from each other through golfing. She said when women are happy with what they are engaged in productively like golfing, their husbands also benefit from such state of mind... Read more
Justice Tinuade Akomolafe-Wilson has commended Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike for appointing an Edo indigene as the Chief Judge of Rivers State.Justice Akomolafe-Wilson said it was absurd to use state of origin to deny married female judges the opportunity to attain the peak of their judicial career.She stated this during... Read more
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Caucus in the House of Representatives has said that Nigerians should compel their representatives in the National Assembly to immediately commence impeachment proceedings against President Muhammadu Buhari for gross incompetence and persistent and continuous breach of Section 14(2)(b) of the 1999 Constitution. The Section... Read more
In the light of COVID-19, FirstBank has launched the FastTrack ATM, a Next Generation ATM and first of its kind in Africa, designed to promote financial activities on the ATM devoid of any form of physical interaction with the machine. The introduction of the FastTrack ATM which is done... Read more
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) on Thursday extradited the former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrashid Abdullahi Maina back to Nigeria from Niamey, Niger Republic where he ran to after jumping a court bail granted on account of corruption charges preferred against him. Maina was arrested... Read more
The Senate on Tuesday again asked President Muhammadu Buhari, to sack the service chiefs over their failure to secure Nigerians. The upper chamber of the National Assembly, which said security situation had deteriorated to a level, where Boko Haram mounted roadblocks in some parts of Borno State and collected... Read more
A Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa on Wednesday adjourned to Feb 25, 2021 to await the ruling of the Court of Appeal on an interlocutory appeal by an Aiteo subsidiary in a suit with its host communities in Bayelsa. Justice Abimbola Awogboro had on March 3, 2020... Read more