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  Nigeria’s most valuable bank brand, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, through its Sustainability Centre, FirstBank Sustainability Centre (FSC) has partnered with the Lagos Business School to host a Sustainability workshop for SME practitioners in Nigeria. The objective of the workshop is to drive home the need for SME entrepreneurs to embed sustainable practices into […]

….Writes Buhari  A socio-cultural Youth body, Mangrove Boys Brigade of Bayelsa State has officially written to President Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to direct the Timipre Sylva led APC in Bayelsa State to immediately vacate the Government owned property at Izagara Close, off Baybridge Road, Kpansia in the State capital or risk forceful ejection.   Spokesman […]

A member of the House of Representatives, Hon. AbdulRaheem Olajide Jimoh, has called on the Federal Government to query the immediate past Chief of Defence staff, Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh, over his recent comments concerning the fight against Boko Haram insurgents in the country. The legislator made this position known in a statement made […]

President Buhari on Sunday ordered that all government ministries, agencies and parastatals in charge of sourcing revenue for the government must now remit such monies into one account in accordance with sections 80 and 162 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended). A statement from the presidency said henceforth, all receipts due to the Federal Government […]

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State on Sunday insisted that with Mrs. Amina Zakari, an in-law to President Mohammadu Buhari, as Acting Chairperson of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the country’s democracy is in danger. Fayose, who backed up his argument by citing sections of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria […]

Many traders at the popular Sandgrous Market in Lagos State could not hold back their tears on Friday as officials of the state government led a demolition squad to the market. The team ensured that the market was demolished in accordance to the order granted it by the government.   Amid the tears, however, the […]

Troubled by the human rights abuses for which the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) — one of the 14 units of the Nigeria Police Force — has become known across Nigeria, the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, on Friday split the unit of the Nigeria police into two. According to Arase, the splitting is an opportunity […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said Nigeria could no longer depend on foreign countries for all its military needs. He therefore asked that the Federal Ministry of Defence should plan for the country to establish a Military Industrial Complex for the local production of weapons. According to the president, these weapons would meet some of […]

The Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEO) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to probe the Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, over his alleged interference in the salary crisis that hit Osun and his attempt to shield the state governor, Rauf Aregbola from probe. CSCEO claimed that it had uncovered a clandestine plan […]

…insists ‘I am not on the run’ Former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Dr. Olufemi Thomas has voluntarily submitted himself to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to clear the air on the $2.1million cash seized at the Murtala Muhammded International Airport (MMIA) in Ikeja- Lagos. One Mr. Ibiteye Bamidele, […]

The new Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, has asked his friends and well-wishers to stop congratulating him in media adverts. Kachikwu was who assumed duty as on Tuesday, said his appointment is a serious national assignment that does not require the frivolity of congratulatory adverts and […]

As Bayelsans prepare to elect a new governor on December 5 this year, there are indications that the wife of the former president, Dame Patience Jonathan is backing the governorship ambition of Chief Timipre Sylva, the immediate past governor of Bayelsa State. Sylva who is standing trial on multiple corruption charges wants to contest the gubernatorial election […]