archiveJune 2021

  ...charges professionals to join politics ... ‘our members are more comfortable in Oyo’ - NIA President   Oyo State Governor, 'Seyi Makinde, on Tuesday, said that his administration is designing a brand-new business district for Ibadan as a way of expanding socio-economic activities within the city and Oyo State...

The Founder of the Love of Christ Generation Church C&S (Worldwide), Rev. Mother Esther Abimbola Ajayi, has urged religious leaders as well as Nigerians to continue to pray for the country in order to overcome challenges confronting her. The Christian cleric made the call during a visit by the Executive...

The Senate has approved the sum of N74,773,601,916 billion as 2022 budget for the Nigeria Police Trust Fund. The approval followed the consideration of a report by the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on Police Affairs. Chairman of the Senate Committee on Police Affairs, Dauda Halliru...

  The Pan-African banking group, the Ecobank Group, is the African Banker’s  2021 African SME Bank of the Year. Ecobank beat a host of other banks in the African Banker Awards 2021 to take home the SME Award in a 2020 tumultuous year characterised by the Covid-19 pandemic which continues...

    …accuse opposition party of tyranny, leadership failure  Three Senators belonging to the Peoples’ Democratic Party, on Wednesday, resigned their membership of the party and defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The lawmakers in three separate letters to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, attributed their resignation from the...

  A Kano State High Court, sitting on Wednesday, sentenced a 20-year-old man, Salisu Muhammad-Yakasai, to death by hanging for stabbing his football coach, Mujittafa Musa,32, to death with a knife.The convict, who resides at Yakasai Quarters Kano, was convicted on a count charge of culpable homicide. The prosecution Counsel,...

Former Heads of State,. retired Gen. Yakubu Gowon and Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Wednesday in Lagos, poured encomiums on Dr Dare Ajiboye, outgoing General Secretary of Bible Society of Nigeria (BSN). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the heads of state spoke at a send-off ceremony in honour...

The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill which provides for 3-year jail term or N3 million fine or both, as penalties for anyone caught possessing illegally or dealing in firearms in Nigeria. Titled: Firearms Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021, the legislation amends Section 35 (2) of the Principal Act which previously...

The Senate has said that the Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Mele Kyari, will address the Senate on the Petroleum Industry Bill, 2021 during plenary on Thursday. The Senate President Ahmad Lawan disclosed this on Wednesday during the plenary. He said the briefing was to help...

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Enugu State Branch, has inaugurated Doctor’s Intelligent Digital Identity Card Management Service in Enugu State to check activities of medical quacks within the state. The NMA unveiled over 1,000 intelligent digital identity cards to be distributed to its members in Enugu State free. The association...