archiveMay 2021

 The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has inaugurated the Sub Working Groups (SWGs) of the Insurance Industry Financial Reporting Working Group (IIFRWG). Commissioner for Insurance, Mr Sunday Thomas, inaugurated the group on Monday in Lagos. Thomas said that the SWG was expected to provide guidance to the IIFRWG for the seamless adoption of...

 The Chief Medical Director (CMD), Ogun State Hospital, Ota, Dr Somade Taofeek, has advised Nigerians, especially those above 40 years to regularly check their blood pressure and take appropriate measures to avoid cardiovascular diseases. Taofeek gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday,...

Operatives of the Uyo Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday May 14, 2021, arrested one Stacy-Dan Ekpenyong (alias Daniel Ekpenyong), the Managing Director of Stewardship Rural Investment Limited for allegedly obtaining the sum of N11.5 million by false pretence. Ekpenyong was arrested at Keystone...

  Former presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba, has said cattle have more economic value than the entire oil and gas reserve in Southern Nigeria. He was talking in reaction to the advice given by the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, Bauchi State chapter, which required its members to vacate...

Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti on Monday inaugurated the state governing board of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Fayemi, while inaugurating the board in Ado-Ekiti, charged the new board members to focus on the welfare of corps members and the success of the NYSC scheme in Ekiti. The governor...

  The Police Command in Osun has described as false, a report that Modakeke Town in Osun was attacked by gunmen on Sunday.“The news is fake,’’ the spokesperson for the command, SP Yemisi Opalola, said in a statement on Monday in Osogbo. Opalola said that what happened in Modakeke on...

The Office of the Vice President said its attention has been drawn to a website: supportosinbajo.ng that is calling on Nigerians to join a volunteer group mobilizing support for Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, ahead of the 2023 presidential election. According to a statement from VP Office, details of the website...

As part of efforts at contribution to solving the high rate of unemployment among the youths in the country, the President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Bishop Francis Wale Oke, has announced plans by the body to evolve a mechanism that will create wealth and employment opportunities for...

 The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila says record has shown that only nine per cent of the total budgetary allocation to the Nigerian Armed Forces is spent on equipment.Gbajabiamila made this known at public hearing on the Armed Forces Support Trust Fund (Establishment) Bill, organised by...

    Some lawyers and litigants in Kaduna on Monday expressed concern over the prolonged strike ambarked upon by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN).The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that JUSUN on April 6 directed its members to shut down all courts across the country; its members...