archiveNovember 3, 2020

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Bauchi Council has inaugurated a five-member committee to enforce ethics and discipline among members of the union. Chairman of the Council, Alhaji Umar Said while inaugurating the committee in Bauchi on Tuesday, said the members had been carefully selected based on their track records...

 Thirty-eight per cent of children in Oyo State are suffering from malnutrition and stunted growth, Dr Kahijat Alarape, the Oyo State Project Coordinator at Accelerating Nutrition Results in Nigeria said in Ibadan on Tuesday. Speaking at an ongoing five-day capacity training for media practitioners and civil society organisations on scaling...

Britain has missed a one-month deadline to respond to a European Commission warning concerning its alleged breach of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, a commission spokesperson said on Tuesday. The commission is now considering taking the legal action to the next level following Britain’s failure to meet the deadline. At the...

Mrs Ibukun Awosika, Chairman, First Bank Nigeria Limited, says there is a link between ethical leadership and corporate governance practices, in achieving improved business operations and profitability in the nation. Awosika spoke at the Institute of Directors (IoD) 2020 Annual Directors’ Conference, which held both physically and virtually on Tuesday...

  The founder of Citadel Global Church, Tunde Bakare has announced his readiness to contest the next Nigerian presidential election come 2023. The cleric who revealed his intention on Monday when he appeared as a guest on Arise Television declared his readiness to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari. Bakare...

  Dr Isreal Kolawole, a Consultant Anaesthetic and Palliative Care Clinician, says anaesthetics are leaving Nigeria in drove, calling on the Federal Government to save the medical sector from brain drain. Kolawole, a Consultant at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, made the call in an interview with the...

Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Magashi (rtd.), has insisted that last weekend’s rescue operation by the United States special forces on Nigerian soil, was not a violation of the country’s sovereignty. Magashi claims the Nigerian government granted the US required permission to carry out the military operation. The...

The Lekki Concession Company (LCC), operators of the Lekki tollgate, has submitted video footage recorded by its surveillance camera on the night of October 20, 2020, when soldiers allegedly opened fire on #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki tollgate. The Managing Director of LCC, Abayomi Omomuwa, submitted a hard drive containing...

The Maize Association of Nigeria (MAAN), Anambra chapter, has commended the Federal Government’s disbursement of inputs worth N89 million to Anambra farmers under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP). Mr Simeon Nwafor, state chairman of the association gave the commendation while speaking with the  News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)  in Onitsha...

  A trader, Ndukwe Ekekwe, Tuesday told the Lagos State Judicial Panel of enquiry and restitution for victims of SARS related abuses relived the harrowing details of how he broke his spine in 2018, when policemen threw him off a three-storey shopping complex at Alaba Market. Ndukwe, 34, said he...