Fidelity Bank Plc has won the 2020 Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN) service award for the highest disbursement to DBN-focused locations. The bank’s Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Mrs Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, said this in a statement on Friday in Lagos. Onyeali-Ikpe said the award was a testament of the bank’s...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has approved the appointment of Mustapha Loskuri as new General Manager, Maiduguri Monday Market. The Governor’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau announced the appointment in a statement released on Friday. Loskuri, until his appointment was Senior Lecturer at the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – UNICEF Nigeria has marked today’s 15th Anniversary of Global Hand washing Day event 2021 in Maiduguri Borno State with a call to governments, partners, CSOs, public, private sectors and other stakeholders to key into global handwashing for good health. Global Handwashing Day is a...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – First Lady, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari has urged well-meaning Nigerians to lend a hand of support to educating the Nigerian populace. She made the call at the graduation ceremony of her Future Assured Youth Education Empowerment Program (FA-YEEP) batch...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Senator Gershom Bassey of Cross River South Senatorial District, has charged the Federal Government to immediately declare a state of emergency on all federal roads in the country In statement issued to newsman in Calabar, Sen. Bassey, said that the federal highways in Nigeria require...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Some chieftain of the People’s Democratic party (PDP) in Cross River State on the aegis of PDP Renaissance Group has charged the Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade to retrace his steps and reintegrate the state in solidarity with other southern states for interest of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that it might soon be forced to cut food rations to more than half a million women, men and children in north-eastern Nigeria unless urgent funding is secured to continue life-saving operations in crisis-ridden Borno,...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – In marking the 2021 International Women Day, rural women in Sokoto on Friday made passionate appeal to political stakehokders in the state to consider a female governor come 2023. Speaking on behalf of the Sokoto Rural Women at the Presidential Lodge of Sokoto Government...
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, says President Muhammadu Buhari has attained greater acceptance among Nigerians even more than some fathers of the federation. Adesina made this assertion on Thursday in an article titled “The Essential Buhari: Vp Osinbajo Got It!”. In establishing his...
Conservative British lawmaker David Amess was killed on Friday after being stabbed “multiple times” during an event in his local constituency in southeast England, in the second death of a UK politician while meeting voters since 2016. Local police did not name Amess but said a man had been...
Nigeria’s inflation rate has dropped by 0.38 per cent to 16.63 per cent, the National Bureau of Statistics has said in its latest report. The Consumer Price Index, (CPI) which measures inflation increased by 16.63 per cent (year-on-year) in September 2021. This is 0.38 per cent points lower than...
Pastor Tunde Bakare has said that restructuring Nigeria can take place without violence. Bakare, who is the founder of Citadel Global Community Church (CGCC), made this declaration on Friday after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja. According to the Serving Overseer of the CGCC, although...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday received in audience the founder of the Citadel Global Community Church (formerly Latter Rain Assembly), Pastor Tunde Bakare, behind closed doors at the statehouse, Abuja. While details of the meeting remain unclear, it may not be unconnected to the Pastor’s recent calls for more...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said nine out of 10 schools in Nigeria have no place for children to wash their hands. This, according to the international organisation, indicates a downward trend in the fight against infectious diseases. UNICEF said this in a...
Prosecutors in Turkey issued arrest warrants on Friday for 224 individuals suspected of links to two separate groups that the Turkish government considers terrorist organisations. A total of 115 of the suspects have already been detained nationwide, state news agency Anadolu reported. It added that 54 of the detained...
The Action Democratic Party (ADP), has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to use the Nov.6 Anambra governorship poll to test run electronic transmission of results, ahead of 2023 election. Yabaji Sani, National Chairman, ADP made the appeal on Friday in Abuja during the inauguration of the party’s...
The Federal Government says it will commence the disbursement of the N30 billion revitalisation fund to public universities soon. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige said this at the end of a closed door conciliation meeting between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of...
By PAUL ADAJI, Abuja – A leading civil society organization, Yiaga Africa, has called on the State Governments where #EndSARS Panels have been suspended to resume sitting and conclude the hearings. In a statement to mark one year of the #EndSARS protest across Nigeria, the group insisted that the...
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Head, Public Affairs and Protocols of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) Dr Fabian Benjamin, has advocated for the establishment of a National Education Admission Insurance Scheme that would ensure that children and wards of the poor and indigents in the society gain admission into universities in the...