archiveSeptember 2021

 The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) began a capacity building workshop on entrepreneurship for primary and secondary schools teachers in Bayelsa on Wednesday.Its South-South Coordinator, Mr Egbuna Iloba, said the agency was introducing  entrepreneurship to primary and secondary schools across Nigeria under the National Schools Entrepreneurship...

Local government pensioners in Ogun State have called on Governor Dapo Abiodun to increase their monthly pension, saying some of them still receive N3,000 as monthly pension. The pensioners also demanded the payment of their 10 years outstanding gratuity, which they put at N68 billion. Defying the morning showers on...

A report released by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says Nigeria’s 17 million undernourished children have placed the country in the top position of Africa’s malnutrition burden. The UNICEF report, titled “Fed to Fail? The Crisis of Children’s Diets in Early Life”, released on Wednesday in Abuja, said that...

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Nigeria’s music legend, King Sunny Ade as he clocks 75 today. The president via a statement posted on a Facebook page of his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, noted the many achievements of the veteran musician as he celebrates his birthday. The post...

The Federal Government has revealed that it was set to recover £200 million of Nigeria’s assets stashed in the United States, as it embarks on a massive recovery of assets belonging to the country. The move is part of the federal government’s efforts aimed at recovering public funds stashed in...

  The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has said that it regrets throwing its weight behind then candidate Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 presidential election, instead of Goodluck Jonathan, adding that Buhari has let down a majority of Nigerians who trusted in his leadership prior to 2015 polls. According to the...

Nigeria has raised $4 billion through the issuance of Eurobonds, an amount that is $1 billion more than what the government planned to raise, the Debt Management Office (DMO) has announced. The government plans to use the proceeds of the borrowing from foreign investors to finance a part of the...

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says the all-commodity group import index grew marginally by 1.07 per cent between April and June. It said this on Wednesday in Abuja, in the “Commodity Price Indices and Terms of Trade for Quarter Two, 2021” published on its website. According to the report,...

    The Senate has passed a bill seeking to control and manage sickle cell anaemia, a genetically inherited disease in Nigeria.   The passage of the bill followed the consideration of a report by the Committee on Health (Secondary and Tertiary).   Chairman of the Committee, Senator Yahaya Oloriegbe...

  Operatives of the Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested a self-acclaimed spiritualist, Mohammed Ibrahim and his accomplice, Ibrahim Abubakar for allegedly defrauding one Mohammed Gaji of the sum of N16, 000,000.00 (Sixteen Million Naira) under the guise of conducting spiritual prayers to...