Great Achievers Initiative for Youth and Community Development (GAIYD), in collaboration with the American Management University (AMU), USA, has honoured several Nigerians for their outstanding contributions to the development and protection of the boy child. The honours were conferred at the 2025 Doctorate Award ceremony held in Abuja over...
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Stakeholders at the 2025 Great Achievers Summit and Awards of Excellence have called for a renewed national commitment to raising morally grounded and emotionally intelligent boys who can become responsible leaders. The event, organised by the Great Achievers Initiative for Youth and Community Development (GAIYD), held over the weekend...
Bloggers and Vloggers, Content Creators Association in Nigeria (BAVCCA), representing over 5,000 verified digital professionals across the country, has strongly condemned what it described as “deliberate misinformation and politicisation” of the nation’s tax administration by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. Speaking at an emergency press conference in Abuja, BAVCCA...
After days of anxiety and unanswered questions, relief finally swept through Kebbi State as the female students abducted from Government Girls’ Comprehensive Senior Secondary School, Maga, in Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area, were safely released—thanks not to gunfire, but to carefully coordinated dialogue. According to credible security sources, the Federal...
Bishop of the Ibadan Anglican Diocese, Most Rev. Joseph Akinfenwa, has delivered a stern message to Nigeria’s political class, warning them to stop turning the suffering of citizens into a political game. In a statement released in Ibadan Akinfenwa lamented that insecurity — though a long-standing national challenge —...
Nigeria Police Force, through the INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB) Abuja, has taken full custody of fugitive suspect Victor abduction Fejemirokun. A statement issued by the Force spokesman, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, said the suspect was handed over by the Ghana Police Service today in Accra, Ghana, following a coordinated...
Nigeria’s state-owned energy giant, NNPC Limited, has posted its strongest financial performance yet, announcing a profit after tax of ₦5.4 trillion for the 2024 financial year — a figure that places the company firmly among the world’s most profitable national oil companies. The results, shared during its earnings call...
The success of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, (NSITF), and that of its Employees’ Compensation Scheme (ECS), depends a lot on collaboration with financial institutions, labour unions, governments, and other stakeholders. The Managing Director and Chief Executive of NSITF, Barrister Oluwaseun Faleye made this known on Friday in...
The sentencing of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to life imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Nigeria on charges related to terrorism, incitement, and organised violence, has elicited mixed domestic and international reactions. The court presided by Justice James Omotosho found Kanu guilty...
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), has confirmed investigations of a United Arab Emirates (UAE) company, John Crane Middle East FZE. This followed an appeal for intervention from an indigenous company, Cona Engineering and Technical Services. The investigation is to ascertain claims of Nigeria’s Cona Engineering that...
Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has debunked a statement credited to the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, that the Nigerian government has handed a private firm, Xpress Payments, monopoly power over revenue collections under the Treasury Single Account (TSA). Reacting to Atiku’s remarks, Technical Assistant on Broadcast Media to...
After many days of hard work by security forces and government representatives, Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq (CON), has announced the freedom of 38 persons who were recently abducted in an attack on Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) Eruku, Ekiti LGA of the state. Governor AbdulRazaq in a statement by...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has launched a scathing attack on President Bola Tinubu led administration following a series of mass kidnappings in Northern Nigeria, accusing the Federal Government of “surrendering to terrorists” through what it describes as weak, uncoordinated, and reactionary security measures. In a statement signed by its...
A fresh wave of anxiety has gripped communities in Borno State after suspected Boko Haram/ISWAP fighters stormed a farmland in Askira/Uba Local Government Area and abducted 14 girls—an attack that further deepens Nigeria’s unsettling rise in mass kidnappings. The incident, which occurred on November 22 around 3:30 p.m., adds...
The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Alfred Adewale Martins, has called for “more urgent official measures to curb the alarming rate of insecurity across Nigeria.” ”The festering terrorists’ attacks in parts of the country and the mass killing of innocent Nigerians in recent times, have underlined the need for the...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu held a late-night meeting with the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Oluwatosin Ajayi, as part of his intensified review of the nation’s worsening security situation. A photograph released by the Presidency on Friday night confirmed the closed-door session at the State House,...
Plateau State Association, United Kingdom (PSA-UK) has raised concern over what it describes as a worsening collapse of security across Nigeria, following renewed killings, abductions and violent attacks in several states. The organisation stated this in a release jointly signed by its President, Dr. Solomon Chollom, and Publicity Secretary,...
The abduction of school children in Nigeria is a pressing concern that needs immediate attention. The Safe Schools Initiative, launched in 2014 after the Chibok schoolgirls’ abduction, aimed primarily to promote safety in Nigerian schools, especially in the North East then. However, the initiative has faced significant challenges, including...
Human-rights activist and presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore has raised alarm over an alleged covert transfer of detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to a correctional facility in Sokoto State. Sowore made the claim on his X (formerly Twitter) handle on Monday, warning that the...
Notable Think Tank , the Independent Media and Policy Initiative (IMPI) has established a link between the steady increase in Nigeria’s Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI) and the decline in inflation in the country for the seventh consecutive month.This according to the policy group is because the PMI reflects the...