archiveJanuary 2025

With the transformative role of technology in education more critical now than ever, this year’s theme for the International Day of Education, “AI and Education: Preserving Human Agency in a World of Automation,” highlights the need for inclusive and technology-driven education systems. According to UNICEF, Nigeria’s education system continues to...

Dominion City Church is increasingly engaging in initiatives to equip members for exponential growth and foster sustainable socio-economic advancement, as it has budgeted N1billion to empower entrepreneurs in the country. These were part of the outcomes at the just-concluded 2025 Lagos Executive Leadership Retreat for Entrepreneurs & Career Professionals, held...

The Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX) has sought enhanced collaboration with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in enhancing compliance with digital trading of assets and ridding the country’s stock market of fraud. This request was made in Abuja on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 when the Chief Executive Officer of...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 handed over four landed title documents recovered from criminal syndicates to their owners. The title documents were falsified by a syndicate of land fraudsters in Abuja. They allegedly forged the documents and deprived the lawful owners of their...

As part of the strong economic and bilateral ties with China, the Director-General of the Nigeria-China Strategic Partnership (NCSP), Mr. Joseph Tegbe, extended his warmest greetings to the Chinese community in Nigeria and the people of China on the celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Tegbe, in a celebratory...

… approves 870 computer-based test centres The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has formally announced the registration, and examination dates for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The tertiary institutions’ entrance examination board disclosed that prospective candidates can begin their registration on January 31, 2025, with the process set...

• says “I no longer recognize the APC Immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has criticized the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), accusing the party of derailing from its founding ideals and principles and fostering poor leadership. El-Rufai who made the remarks while speaking in Abuja at a...

The federal government has announced its plans to implement the National Single Window (NSW) in its bid to reduce the cost of doing business across tha nation’s ports by at least 25 per cent. The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola disclosed this in Lagos on Tuesday. Speaking...

Mr. Festus Keyamo, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development has said that the report of the Ministerial Taskforce on Illegal Air Charter Operations and Related Matters would be ready very soon. Keyamo also said that he believed in a national carrier project, but not one that benefits foreign countries...

Nurses and midwives in Katsina State are set to withdraw services from hospitals located in security-prone council areas over the incessant killing and abduction of their members. At a press conference Tuesday, the health workers under the umbrella of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), gave state...