archiveMay 2022

As part of activities to commemorate Children’s Banking Month, Ecobank Nigeria has opened a national essay competition for children between the ages of 13 to 16. The topic for the essay is “What will you consider as the future of banking”. Prizes to be won include Laptops, Educational Tabs, and...

  Operatives of the Enugu Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 36 suspected internet fraudsters. The suspects include Chukwuma Destiny, Emenalom Precise, Nwaeze Obinna, Ogbonna Monday, Raymond Chigozie, Mmadu Bright, Chigozie Sixtus, Ike Joachim Uchechukwu, Ifeanyi Uzor, Iwuanyanwu Divine, Nwoke Udojah, Patrick Micheal, Chukwu...

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has appointed Senator Abba Moro as Chairman of the Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs. Lawan made the announcement moments before the Senate adjourned plenary on Wednesday. Abba Moro replaces the former Chairman, Senator Danjuma La’ah (Kaduna South), who on Wednesday was nominated...

The Senate, Wednesday, mourned the recent killing of over forty persons, including soldiers by terrorists in the southern part of Taraba State. This followed a point of order by Senator Emmanuel Bwacha (APC, Taraba South). Coming under Order 42 of the Senate Standing Orders 2022 as amended, Bwacha drew the...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) have set up a joint committee of senior and management staff of the duo agencies for the implementation of inter-agency strategies for enhancing national revenues in the telecommunications sector. The NCC’s Executive Commissioner, Stakeholder Management, Adeleke Adewolu, inaugurated...

  The Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, alongside the Minister for Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, will be hosting a meeting between the government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as well as all other registered Trade Unions in Nigerian universities on Thursday. Others...

  Following President Muhammadu Buhari’s order, the Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba has resigned from his office to contest for the office of president. This was disclosed by the senior media aide to the Presidency, Garba Shehu on Wednesday evening. It would be recalled that earlier today, President...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will next week release the regulations and guidelines for the conduct of the 2023 general elections. The Commission stated this during the second quarterly meeting with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) at the INEC headquarters in Abuja. Its chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu said: “Beyond the...

  The Chief Field Office of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Kano, Rahama Farah, has said that over ten million Nigerian girls are out of school. This was disclosed during the Media Dialogue on Girls’ Education under the Girls’ Education Project-3 (GEP3), held in Kano on Wednesday. Farah...

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said that Nigeria’s real Gross Domestic Products (GDP) in the third quarter of 2021, grew by 4.03 per cent on a year-on-year basis showing a steady improvement from the economic downturn in 2020. According to a statement published by the Bureau on its website,...