Lagos, Nigeria. November 29, 2021 – Renowned sustainability and communications entrepreneur, and Chief Executive of CSR-in-Action Group, Bekeme Masade-Olowola, has won the award of ‘Women’s Role Model in Mining and Geosciences’ – a recognition for the most exceptional, inspirational women with significant contributions to the mining and geoscience industry. Similarly,...
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Senatir Smart Adeyemi, All Progressive Congress (APC) Kogi West and Global Alliance of Progressive Professionals (GAP3) have declared support for the presidential ambition of Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi state. Senator Adeyemi made the declaration during the official launch of a national movement of GAP3, a project of the...
The parents of 16 year old Oluwaferanmi David Aladegbonmire have sent a save our soul (SOS) appeal to good hearted citizens to help save the life of their son who was diagnosed with brain tumor in October 2021. Feranmi , shortly after his WAEC at the Staff Secondary School, Federal...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Gershom Bassey the Senate Committee Chairman on Federal Emergency Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA), on Monday said the Federal Government needs over N400b for the Rehabilitation of all Federal roads in Nigeria. Senator Bassey, who disclosed this in a statement in Calabar, said, “we are oversighting...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has announced that as from the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) exercise, it will be collecting the approved N700 registration fee on behalf of the various Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres along with its UTME registration fees....
By TENEBE ANTHONIA, Lagos – First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider, has announced the convening of its non-oil export webinar series. The Event is centered on deliberating opportunities that will enhance the country’s expansion of its drive towards diversifying the national economy,...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade, on Monday suspended the 2021 Calabar Carnival. The Governor’s suspension of the 2021 Carnival at State Executive Council Chamber, took many by surprise as the governor had last week announced that the 2021 carnival will hold. The stakeholders meeting...
Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday fixed January 17, 2022, for the arraignment of former Governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim. Ohakim and Chinedu Okpaleke are being prosecuted by the Federal Government for allegedly threatening to release nude photographs of an Abuja-based lady,...
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is expected to step down as the social media network’s CEO, CNBC reported on Monday. The CNBC report cites unnamed sources and Twitter did not immediately reply to a request seeking comment. Dorsey is credited with coming up with the idea for Twitter when eventual...
A woman heading to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for Umrah (Lesser Hajj) has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) in Abuja, the nation’s capital. The woman, according to a statement signed on Monday by NDLEA spokesperson, Femi...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – No fewer than five bandits have been killed by security operatives in Birnin Gwari and Giwa Local Government Areas(LGAs) of Kaduna State. The state’s Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen on Monday,...
More than 15 hours after fire outbreak at one of the biggest auto spare part warehouses in Ladipo, Mushin, Lagos State, firefighters have continued to struggle to rescue goods worth more than N500 million. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the fire spread to the three-storey building...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied zoning its national chairmanship to the North Central. Sen. James Akpanudoedehe, the National Secretary, APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) said this on Monday in Abuja when he spoke with newsmen. Akpanudoedehe was reacting to a media report that the...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the 2021 Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law. The NLC President, Mr Ayuba Wabba, said this in a statement titled: ”Time to Strengthen Democracy in Nigeria” on Monday in Abuja. Wabba recalled that on Nov. 9, the...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Matu Esky, a 24-year old prospective Corp member, was, on Friday killed in a fatal crash on his way to Katsina state, for his three weeks mandatory orientation exercise. NATIONAL ACCORD gathered that the crash occurred on Friday afternoon at Jigawa state on his...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has hosted another edition of Campus Conversation (CC), at the weekend in Bayero University, Kano (BUK), where officials of the Commission engaged in intensive enlightenment of students of the varsity on their rights and privileges as telecoms consumers. Campus...
Suspected kidnappers have shot the Commissioner for Environment in Kogi State, Adewale Omofaiye. According to sources, the attackers had laid an ambush for the commissioner before he was shot while some other persons were abducted from the scene. The incident occurred on Sunday evening between Ikoyi and Iyara in...
Two soldiers have been killed in an encounter with Boko Haram (BH) and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in Borno State. The Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this via a statement. He said the insurgents were killed at the Forward Operating Base...
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has said that social media platform, Twitter, has agreed to all the conditions laid out by the Federal Government regarding its operations in Nigeria. Keyamo who is also a member of a committee, set up to review the operations...
Ethiopia Government has denied it staged an attack over the weekend along its shared border with Sudan, blaming unrest in the disputed zone on rebels from its war-hit Tigray region. On Saturday Sudan’s military said “several” soldiers had been killed in an attack by armed groups and militias linked...