archiveApril 14, 2023

  says Nigeria's first professor of medicine believed in the nation and its potential   Throughout his lifetime, the late Prof. Theophilus Oladipo Ogunlesi showed what it meant to live by values necessary to build people and institutions while also contributing to the common good. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN,...

The 2023 Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi has said that nobody can force him out of Nigeria. Obi spoke at Onitsha Holiday Resort in Anambra State while responding to calls for him to leave Nigeria. A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode had challenged Obi to leave Nigeria and...

Governor Hope Uzodinma has emerged as the flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Imo State governorship election. The chairman of the Governorship Primary Election Committee, Rear Admiral William Kayoda (retd) declared Uzodinma as the party’s flagbearer for the November 11 exercise. The party’s primary election was held...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed candidates, who had registered for the 2023 optional Mock-UTME but could not sit for the examination held on Thursday, 30th March 2023, on account of technical challenges, to print their notification slips from Friday, 14th April 2023. The board said the...

United Bank for Africa (UBA) reported a profit surge of 29.1 per cent in the three months to March, profiting from a series of rate hikes by the Central Bank of Nigeria that helped strengthen interest income and boost the bottom line. The pan-African lender saw interest income accelerate by...

Nine years after Boko Haram abducted 276 students from a girls’ school in Chibok, 98 girls are still being held by Boko Haram and a slew of abductions have taken place since, revealing the utter failure of the Nigerian authorities to learn from the heartbreak of Chibok and, ultimately, to...

  The National Assembly has forwarded the harmonised version of the bill on Nigerian Peace Corps to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent after its passage by both the Senate and the House of Representatives. Transmission of the bill for Presidential assent by the Clerk to the National Assembly (CNA), Mr....

  The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) says it has deployed 100 personnel across Kano, Katsina, and Jigawa states for the supplementary elections on Saturday. In an interview on Friday, Farouk Dogondaji, the commission’s zonal commander in Kano, said the officers would be stationed across polling units and collation...

  Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has described the recent appointments of principal officers for the University of Ilesa as part of the fulfilment of his promise to nurture a sustainable tertiary institution for Ijeshaland. Adeleke in a statement signed by his Spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed on Friday also reaffirmed...

Aviation workers’ unions will embark on a two-day strike from Monday over the alleged failure to implement the conditions of service agreement between the union and some aviation agencies. This is contained in a statement issued and signed by officials of the National Union of Air Transport Employees, Air Transport...