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  About  2,000 youth farmers in Nasarawa State are to benefit from an African Development Bank (AfDB) project tagged: ‘Technologies for African Transformation (TAAT)- Water Enabler Compact (WEC)’, to boost dry season rice production in the state. Prof. Henry Igbadun, National Coordinator of the TAAT-WEC project, stated this in Lafia...

    says delivery of democracy dividends paramount to his govt Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, on Tuesday, inaugurated the members of the House of Assembly Service Commission and the Government Liaison Officers appointed to oversee the 14 federal constituencies in the State. The Governor also stated that his...

Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme is set to receive a grant of $5 million from the African Development Bank to enable it to scale up its outreach and impact to 1,000 select youth entrepreneurs. The grant which has just been approved by the Board of Directors of the AfDB is...

Fidelity Bank Plc, one of Nigeria’s fastest growing banks has been recognised for its efforts at growing the economy particularly supporting the real sector. The bank received two awards to this effect at the 11th Annual Bankers’ Committee Retreat which held at Ogere, Ogun State at the weekend. The awards...

  StarTimes Nigeria has rolled out a new action crime TV series titled, Paper Bolt. The show is currently enjoying massive viewership on the ST Nollywood Plus channel. The first crime series airs every Monday – Friday on ST Nollywood plus at 7:30 pm and features leading Nollywood actors and...

The Senate has mandated its Committees on Foreign Affairs and Trade and Investments to, as a matter of urgency, interface with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to investigate the status of Nigerian businesses in Ghana. The decision to do so was reached during plenary on Tuesday following the consideration of...

The Senate on Tuesday referred President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2016 – 2018 External Borrowing Plan request to its Committee on Local and Foreign Debts. The President’s request was forwarded to the Committee for further legislative work following its presentation by the Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi, during plenary. The Committee has Senator...

Chairman, Northern Elders’ Forum, (NEF), Professor Ango Abdullahi said on Tuesday that President Muhammadu Buhari was not fighting corruption in the country, saying “prisons ought to be full by now, if he is truly fighting it.” Ango Abdullahi stated categorically: “We have now seen corruption on a massive scale, and...

Nigerian President,  Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday insisted that the country’s democratic system of government was ‘too slow’ for him prosecute corrupt people. Buhari made the disclosure while giving a remark on his 77th birthday at State House, Abuja. According to him, “When I came in uniform, I collected those who...

Convicted Senator and former Governor of Abia, Orji Kalu, on Tuesday prayed a Federal High Court in Lagos to grant him bail from the Ikoyi Custodial Centre pending determination of an appeal against his conviction. Justice Mohammed Idris had convicted Kalu and sentenced him to a concurrent jail term of...