archiveJune 2019

  Omobola Johnson commends Sterling Bank’s high-level gender inclusion A former Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Dr. Omobola Johnson has listed some factors that can help women to reach the top of their careers in any field of endeavour. The former minister who spoke on the theme of ‘Winning...

  To represent Nigeria at the World Championship in New York The 2019 Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) World Championship, sponsored by Zenith Bank, has produced six national winners who will be representing Nigeria at the World Championship taking place in New York, USA from July 28 – 31, 2019. The...

  Senate President, Senator Ahmad Lawan, has announced the appointment of Festus Adedayo as his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity even as he also appointed Babagana Muhammad Aji as his Chief of Staff. In a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President of the Senate on Administration, Dr....

Hope Democratic Party (HDP) has asked the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT), to nullify the February 23, 2019 presidential election that produced President Muhammadu Buhari as the winner. The party and its presidential candidate, Chief Ambrose Owuru told the Tribunal in a fresh motion they filed that the February 23...

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja signed into law the Federal Polytechnics Amendment bill and the National Institute for Security Studies bill. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives), Alhaji Umar El-Yakub disclosed this when he addressed State House Correspondents on...

  An Odogbolu, Ogun State-based businesswoman, Wuraola Folashade Oluloye, accused of hacking a First Bank Plc account and stealing a customer’s N16.2 million, was on Tuesday brought before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. She was arraigned by the Lion Building Police Division, Lagos on five counts of fraud and fraudulent...

Consolidated Capital Market Stakeholders Forum (CCMSF) has spoken against insinuations in some quarters that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was unfair to Oando Plc in the report of the forensic audit recently released. The SEC had recently wielded the big hammer against Wale Tinubu, banning him and his deputy,...

  By Collins Okeke On April 5, 2018, Peter Nielson, a Danish National was arrested by the Nigerian Police for allegedly killing his Nigerian wife, Zainab and their three-year-old daughter, Petra at their home in the Ikoyi area of Lagos state. His arrest was communicated to the Danish Embassy in...

Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, has said that investment in social insurance was a key to achieving a stronger global economy, saying societies across the world must begin by strengthening social programmes. Lagarde spoke at a special forum organised by the International Labour Organisation (ILO)...

Some Federal Government workers have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to give priority to timely payment of pensions and gratuities to retirees. The workers made the plea in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Lagos, on Monday, at the pre- retirement workshop organised by National Pension Commission...