Mr Olusegun Onilude, Chairman, Badagry Local Government area of Lagos State, on Tuesday pledged his administration’s support for the development of women. Onilude made the pledge at the 2nd Badagry Women Symposium 2020 organised by the council’s Department of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation (WAPA). The News Agency of Nigeria...
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Access Bank Plc has empowered and inaugurated more than 50,000 agents to provide financial services to customers across the country during the Yuletide. Access Bank’s Senior Banking Advisor, Mr Robert Giles, made the discosure in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos. Giles said that the agents known as Access...
Pan-African conglomerate, Dangote Group, has been adjudged the best company in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for its interventions that helped the vulnerable, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. A statement signed by Mr Anthony Chiejina, Branding and Corporate Communications Chief, Dangote Group, and issued to newsmen on Tuesday,...
Gov. Douye Diri of Bayelsa, has assured the people of fair distribution of development projects to give all the three senatorial districts a sense of belonging in the administration’s scheme of things. The Deputy Governor, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, who represented Diri, made this known on Tuesday at a meeting with...
… Calls for more vigilance and decisive actions as cases rise By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the mandate of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 “for a further period till the end of March, 2021 bearing in mind the new surge in the...
The Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), which will commence in the next two weeks, was designed to create the largest free trade area in the world measured by the number of countries participating. The pact is to connect 1.3 billion people across 55 countries with a combined gross...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Osun on Tuesday said one woman was killed in an accident that occurred on Ilesa-Ile-Ife highway. The Sector Commander, Mrs Kudirat Ibrahim, disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Osogbo by the Command’s Spokesperson,...
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) says it will reinforce campaign against smoking in public places, indecent dressing and other social vices, especially among the youths to restore the image of the country. The Director-General of NOA, Mr Garba Abari, said this when he received members of Mater Dei Communication...
As part of efforts to bridge the gaps in maternal and child mortalities in the territory, The FCT Minister of State, Dr Ramatu Aliyu on Tuesday, inaugurated the FCT Emergency Maternal and Child Health Intervention Centre (FEMCHIC). Aliyu, while inaugurating the centre, said it would provide an oversight and...
President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria has moved a step closer to the nation’s dream of fully utilising its abundant gas potential. The president said this on Tuesday at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa while inaugurating the Integrated Gas Handling Facility and LPG Processing and Dispensing Plants. The...
Yobe government on Tuesday began distribution of 1,780 goats to 890 women under the rural empowerment programme. Gov Mai Mala-Buni said at the occasion in Gujiba that five women from each of the 178 wards in the state would receive two goats each. He said the programme was aimed...
Clean-Up Nigeria (CUN), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) on Tuesday announced Abuja city as the cleanest city, while Akwa Ibom emerged the cleanest state in the country. Mr Prince Ene Baba-Owoh Jr. National Coordinator/Secretary, National Technical Study Group of the organisation, disclosed this is in Abuja at a virtual meeting...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has called on motorists to closely observe speed limit and road signs as they ply major roads this Yuletide. The South-East Zonal Coordinator of NEMA, Mr Fred Anusim, made the call while flagging-off NEMA’s “Operation Eagle-Eye’’ at the 4-Corner Junction along Enugu-Port Harcourt...
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC) in Kaduna State said that 2,500 of its personnel would be deployed around Kaduna metropolis to help secure the state during the yuletide. Mr Nurradeen Abdullahi, NSCDC Commandant in Kaduna State, said this while addressing Heads of Departments and Area Commanders of...
The Kano State House of Assembly has approved the 2020 supplementary bill of N52.1 billion for the state. This followed the adoption of the report of the House Committee on appropriation at Tuesday’s plenary. Presenting the report, Chairman of the Committee, Mr Abba Ibrahim-Garko said that Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje...
The Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area has urged its residents to cooperate with the officials of the National Population Commission (NPC), as they start the Enumeration Area Demarcation (EAD) in the community. The Media Officer of the local government area, Mr Babajide Dada, made the appeal in statement on Tuesday...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno state Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, has appealed to the Federal Government to equip the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corp (NSCDC) in the state in order to compliment the efforts of the military in fighting Boko Haram insurgents and other crimes in the...
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday sentenced a 31-year-old man, Uchenna Unachukwu, to four years imprisonment for trafficking in 21.7kg of hemp. Justice Ayokunle Faji sentenced Unachukwu who pleaded guilty to a count charge of drug trafficking. Faji held that the sentence should start from the date...
The Curator, National Museum, Ilorin, Mrs Bimpe Oladele says the outbreak of COVID-19 has affected the flow of visitors to museums in the country. Oladele said this on Tuesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin. She said the concerns about the Coronavirus had...
Concussions accounted for 20 per cent of injuries suffered by rugby players in the English Premiership’s 2018-19 season, and were the most common injury in matches for an eighth straight season, a Rugby Football Union (RFU) study has said. While the 2002-03 season had 42 concussions recorded in total,...