Rivers State Government Committee for the Compliance of COVID-19 protocols has directed schools to set up monitoring teams to sustain current compliance level. Chairman of the Committee, Ambassador Desmond Akawor gave the directive shortly after monitoring the compliance level of COVID-19 protocols in some schools. Ambassador Akawor appealed to... Read more
Rivers State Government is to set up a Judicial Panel of Inquiry to investigate the brutality and human rights abuses of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad(SARS) in the State. Gov. Nyesom Wike made this known on Tuesday in Port Harcourt in a State-wide broadcast to the people of the... Read more
Immediate-past Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside says the ongoing #EndSARS protest across Nigeria provides an opportunity for the government to embark on a comprehensive reform of the Nigeria Police and not just the SARS. Dr. Peterside stated this at the... Read more
FirstBank Statement On False Tweet
FeaturedPress Releases October 17, 2020
CORPORATE STATEMENT Our attention has been drawn to the tweet making the rounds on social media on shutting down the FirstBank website following a false tweet that the Bank prevented staff from joining the ongoing protests in the country. As the largest banking institution in Nigeria, it is not... Read more
Lagos, 14 October 2020 – Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider, First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced that its CEO, Dr. Adesola Adeduntan has been honoured with membership of Bretton Woods Committee (BWC). FirstBank has also joined Bretton Woods Committee as an Organisational Supporter in line... Read more
There are well coordinated plots to undermine the investigation of the alleged dubious Chinese loans to Nigeria for the construction of railway lines, a human group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), have alleged. In a statement made available to newsmen by the group’s National Coordinator, Emmanuel... Read more
The two leading opposition candidates in Ivory Coast’s October 31 presidential vote on Thursday asked their supporters to actively boycott the electoral process as the West African nation officially began its 2020 presidential campaign. “The electoral process under way does not concern us… we ask our supporters for an... Read more
A UN peacekeeper was killed in northern Mali and another seriously wounded after their vehicle hit a roadside bomb on Thursday, the UN mission said. The attack came as civil servants in the capital, Bamako, protested against the “selective release” of foreign hostages in hostage swap deals by the... Read more
