archiveAugust 2022

NAMA Women Advancement (NAMA), a leading international women’s empowerment establishment headquartered in Sharjah, UAE, has crossed a new milestone by successfully enabling 16,000 women-owned enterprises to be absorbed into the value chains of South Africa. The landmark achievement follows four years of strategic efforts under the ‘Stimulating Equal Opportunities for...

 Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, has suspended Mr Mbazulike Iloka, Transition Chairman of Nnewi North Local Government Area, over the hazy circumstances surrounding the death of his wife, Mrs Chidiebere Iloka. Chidiebere was said to have collapsed and died on Aug. 7 but some people alleged that she was a...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja launched the National Crisis Management Doctrine . The doctrine, he said, would bridge the gap created by the extensive deployment of security services through fostering collaboration amongst Ministries, Departments, and Agencies. According to a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and...

The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has raised the alarm that terrorists causing havoc in parts of the country have formed a parallel government in some parts of the State. The governor, who made this known in a memo issued to President Muhammadu Buhari, said members of the Jama’atu Ansarul...

The Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Chris Finebone has dumped the party for the Peoples Democratic Party. The pictures of Mr. Finebone standing in a group photograph with Governor Wike, and others surfaced on social media on Thursday evening. Others in the picture are...

Professor Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice-Chairman/CEO, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) will deliver the keynote address as Distinguished Guest Speaker at the public presentation of Business Journal newspaper on Friday, September 16, 2022 at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja (Lagos). The event would be Chaired by Mr. O. S. Thomas, the Commissioner for Insurance/CEO,...

  A top-class optometry clinic, SpecSMART, is set to offer its high-quality primary eye care, quality frames, quality lens variants, contact lens fitting to Nigerians, as it debuts in Lagos on Friday, 12th August, 2022. The world-class Eye clinic will be launched at the Ikoyi Plaza Mall, Awolowo Road, in...

*VP represents President Buhari at launch of IMAGINE NIGERIA A Nigeria freed of its past, current challenges and able to engage the future with the best possible tools in human and material capital is within reach. And this, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, is achievable by a strong...

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has said the Federal Government must stop borrowing for consumption. Taking to Twitter on Thursday, the former governor of Anambra State lamented that states that received bailouts failed to repay the loans. He, however, advised that federal borrowings should be restricted...

BudgIT condemns Abia, Ondo, Taraba and other states over unpaid remuneration to civil servants, tasks them to prioritise employees’ rights by paying all accrued salaries, revealing that some states are owing up to 30 months. BudgIT, a foremost civic-tech organisation leading the advocacy for transparency and accountability in Nigeria’s public...