archiveMarch 8, 2022

  Rite Foods, a world-class and market leader in Nigeria's food and beverage industry, has commended women for their role in societal development and urges them to always stand out in their sphere of endeavors to bridge the gap in gender inequality, as it joins other organization’s globally in marking...

Ecobank Nigeria has entered into partnership agreement with Ogun State government to provide mortgage financing to interested civil servants who are allotees of the state’s housing scheme. Under the housing scheme, the Ogun State Government has developed an acquisition arrangement to build and allocate houses to senior civil servants, to...

  President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the ruling by the Federal High Court in Abuja, won’t stop the National Assembly from amending the Electoral Act.   The court in a ruling delivered on Monday by Inyang Ekwo, on an ex-parte application by the People’s Democratic Party,...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has replaced the sacked Governor of Ebonyi state, David Umahi with Hon. Iduma Igariwey. It will be recalled that a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had sacked Governor Umahi and his Deputy, Dr Eric Kelechi Igwe, following their defection from the Peoples Democratic...

Former DMD NLNG/CEO of NNPC, and former House of Representative Member, Ibrahim Dahiru Waziri has stated that “in politics, you are only as important as the votes you can cast, go get registered and let your vote count”. This is as Anap Foundation kick-starts its enlightenment campaign themed, GoNigeria, a...

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday, constituted a seven-man conference committee on the Sexual Harassment of Students in Tertiary Institutions Prohibition bill. The bill was passed by the upper chamber on 7th July, 2020. The bill was sponsored by the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege representing Delta Central...

In commemoration of International Women’s Day, IWD 2022, Nigeria’s retail lender, Unity Bank Plc is partnering AltSchool Africa to sponsor female students towards the acquisition of specialist software skills - an empowerment initiative to boost the capacity of the female gender. AltSchool Africa is a school for individuals looking to...

Hundreds of commuters were stranded on Tuesday along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, following a protest by the National Association of Nigerian Students (ASUU). According The Punch correction, the students had blocked the expressway, protesting the ongoing one-month warning strike imposed upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, having failed to...

I’m still Governor of Ebonyi — Umahi rejects sack by court The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has sacked David Umahi and Eric Igwe as governor and deputy governor of Ebonyi State respectively. The trial Judge, Justice Inyang Ekwo, held that the governor and his deputy who won the...