The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s leading champion of entrepreneurship, has announced the opening of applications for its 2025 entrepreneurship programmes. This is contained in a statement from the foundation’s website on Monday. It said that aspiring and existing entrepreneurs from across Africa are invited to apply. It said...
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The Chancellor of Covenant University, Ota, Ogun, Dr David Oyedepo, has said that over 90 per cent of graduates of the university are employable. Oyedepo made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Ota, Ogun. According to him, this is evidenced...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has identified one iron smelting company as one of the alleged buyers of stolen manhole covers in Abuja. Mr Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, to the FCT Minister, Mr Nyesom Wike, stated this in a statement in...
The Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Foundation has commenced its free cataract extraction surgery for 1000 people in states in the South-West region. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the screening for the surgery began on Dec. 16 while the surgeries commenced on Monday. Speaking with NAN,...
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Ekiti, Dr Peter Obafemi, has described Gov. Abiodun Oyebanji’s flyover initiative as a misplaced priority. In a statement after a stakeholders meeting of Ekiti indigenes in Lagos on Sunday, Obafemi said that development initiatives in the state should not lack purpose....
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has warned on Sunday that tariffs proposed by President-elect Donald Trump could significantly reduce Americans’ ability to purchase technology products. It said that this would potentially cut consumer purchasing power by up to 143 billion dollars. According to a report released by CTA, laptop...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri– Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has decorated his Aide-De-Camp (ADC), DSP Ashigar Baba Kulbu, with his new rank of Superintendent of Police (SP) following Ashigar’s promotion by the Nigeria Police Force. The governor was assisted in decorating the ADC by the commissioner of Police, CP...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has assented to the 2025 appropriation bill of N615,857,950 billion into law. Zulum presented the budget estimate of N584.76 billion on the 9th of December, 2024, passed by the State Assembly on 24th December with a marginal increase of...
A Port Harcourt division of the Rivers state high court has ruled that the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara is legally empowered to transact business with the three lawmakers who have not vacated their seats in the state house of assembly. This was contained in a court decision given on...
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that by 2027, the party will produce more state governors from the current 12 and take over governance at the centre. The party’s National Working Committee (NWC) stated this on Sunday during a visit to the Bayelsa State...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, admitted Olamide Thomas, who allegedly threatened Seyi Tinubu and the Inspector-General (I-G) of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, with death threat on social media, to a N10 million with one surety in like sum. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling on Thomas’ bail...
By OLA MODUPE, Abeokuta – Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun has expressed sorrow on the passing of notable businesswoman and socialite, Mrs Adebisi Edionseri, describing her death as a significant loss to the state and Nigeria. The Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr Lekan Adeniran stated this in...
By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau – The troops of 1 Brigade, Sector 2 Joint Task Force North West, Operation Fansan Yamma has neutralised a notorious terrorist, Sani Russu in Zamfara. The troops also succeeded in various operations against terrorists in the state and recovered arms. The Coordinator, Joint Media Coordination...
River State Police Command has said that 18 persons were severely injured in a gas explosion which occurred in Oroazi community in Port Harcourt. The incident occurred in Sunday evening at a gas refilling shop, causing significant damage to nearby buildings. The latest explosion follows a series of gas...
There is an emerging reality that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is set to lose three of its founding members – Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger Republic, in one fell swoop. Founded almost 50 years ago on May 28, 1975 to promote the economic growth and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has bagged another prestigious award on good governance at the 4th Annual General Meeting and Reunion of Alma Mater of Government Secondary School Monguno (MOSSOSA) on Sunday. The State Deputy Governor, Hon Umar Kadafur, also bagged same award from...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – Benue State Governor’s cup competition ended on Saturday with the home.Local Government of Governor Hyacinth Alia emerging as the winner of the competition. The finals of the competition which was played at the J. S. Tarka stadium Gboko was between Vandeikya local government...
Many persons were feared killed when a tanker ladened with petrol lost control and burst into flames on Sunday afternoon in Delta State. The accident occurred in the Agbor Ika South Local Government Area of the state. Residents of the area were seen in viral videos scampering for safety...
Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has debunked the rumour that he has left the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and has decamped to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). A close aide to the former governor told Channels Television that the rumour is the handiwork of mischief makers,...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will depart Lagos on Monday, January 6, for Accra, the capital of the Republic of Ghana, to attend the inauguration of President-elect, John Dramani Mahama on January 7. Mahama, who served as the 12th president of Ghana between 2011 and 2017, was reelected...