The Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria(CIBN) on Monday in Lagos inaugurated 14 Committees of its Governing Council to strengthen operations and drive its activities. Mr Nelson Olagundoye, head of corporate communication and external relations at CIBN, said in a statement that the committees comprised three Statutory, nine Standing...
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EDDY OCHIGBO, Kaduna Former U.S. Vice President, Al Gore has presented the Alfredo Sirkis Memorial Green Ring Award to Nigeria’s climate change activist, Gloria Kasang Bulus at the 44th Climate Reality Leadership Corps Global Training, a virtual event, aimed at training environmentalists with practical skills and knowledge to build...
…says it disbursed 20k only in collaboration with NEDC, IOM SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri Borno State Government has refuted media reports (not this medium) which allegedly claimed that it disbursed the sum of N100,000 cash each to deradicalized repentant Boko Haram terrorists as gift. Refuting the reports, the State Commissioner...
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has said two persons died while three were injured when a 20-feet container fell on a commercial bus at Ilasamaja on the Oshodi-Badagry Expressway. LASEMA Director-General, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, who confirmed the accident on Sunday in Lagos, said the dead bodies and injured...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday announced 555 new COVID-19 cases in the country as total infections from the virus exceeded 40,000 in five months. The NCDC, which made this known on its official twitter handle, also recorded two deaths in the country in the last...
SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has on Sunday paid a visit of condolence to Governor Abdul-Rahman Abdul-Razaq who recently lost his father. AbdulGaniyu Folorunsho Abdul-Razaq (SAN), an Elder statesman, died on Saturday at the age of 93. Zulum had established an intimate relationship with the...
By Chinyere Nwokeoma, NAN First Bank of Nigeria Limited has offered to give financial support to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Education Sector to cushion the effects of the COVID -19 pandemic. Mr. Bankole Adediran, Head, Transaction Banking Products, FirstBank, made this known at the Bank’s SMEConnect webinar...
By Mamman Mohammed On June 25th, 2020, Nigeria’s ruling political party the All Peoples Congress (APC), took a decisive measure to save the party from an imminent collapse. The party was sitting on the edge of a cliff drifting towards disintegration. Numerous internal wrangling, several court cases and power play...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has given reasons why he dumped the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to join the All Progressives Congress (APC). Dogara, in a letter he wrote to the Chairman of the PDP Bogoro ‘C’ Ward, Bogoro Local...
OLA MODUPE, Lagos Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to the Senate President Ahmad Lawan; and House of Representatives Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila, urging them to use their “good offices and leadership positions to urgently publish all reports of completed public hearings and corruption probes...
…inspects ongoing 1,000 Shelters for the IDPs SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri In fulfilment of his pledge to repatriate Borno refugees in Niger Republic back home and see to their wellbeing, Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has on Saturday distributed food items to 674 displaced IDP households and disbursed a sum of...
SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri Senate President Ahmed Lawan, Principal Officers and Senators, including Senator Kashim Shettima, were guests at the launch of book, reviewed by the Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum. The book, “How I became Senator in 30 days” authored by Senator Sadiq Suleiman Umar, representing Kwara North Senatorial District,...
EHIME ALEX, Lagos All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has described the death on Saturday of the first lawyer in Northern Nigeria, Alhaji AbdulGaniy Folorunsho Abdulrasaq, as the end of an important era in the country. The late Abdulrasaq who died at 93 is the father of...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi The wife of Bauchi State Governor, Hajiya Aisha Bala Mohammed, distributed on Saturday empowerment tools worth millions of naira to individuals and registered groups in the state. Speaking at the distribution ceremony, she said the gesture was part of her humanitarian assistance for the empowerment of...