archiveJuly 27, 2019

African leaders must change from youth empowerment to youth entrepreneurship and investment, the President of the African Development Bank (ADB), Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, has said. Youth empowerment is a euphemism for the practice of providing young people with starter-packs and other forms of support to learn basic trades and small...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the reports about Africa do not often accurately represent the reality of life and opportunity and therefore called for different narratives about Africa. Osinbajo made the call during the Founder’s Presidential Dialogue as part of the 2019 Tony Eluemlu Foundation Entrepreneurship Leadership Forum...

The Oyo State Police Command has advised the public to be vigilant in order not to fall victim to new tricks used by fraudsters to break into bank accounts. The advice came following the arrest of 10 suspects paraded by the police command for alleged stealing and fraudulent SIM card...

  Nigeria’s leading rights activists, Chief Mike Ozekhome and Femi Falana, both Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) on Saturday described the proscription of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) as illegal and immoral. While Ozekhome said the proscription was “discriminatory”, Falana, who represents IMN leader Ibrahim el-Zakzaky, urged the Federal...

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