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Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has said that his daughter, who was appointed as Special Assistant to the Governor on Girl Child, deserved the appointment. He said this on Tuesday in Asaba, while addressing the issue of appointments into his cabinet for his second term in office. Okowa said that ...

The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has called on member states to pay their outstanding contributions, as the organisation faces such a “severe financial crisis” that staff salaries risk not being paid next month. Guterres said this on Tuesday while addressing the UN General Assembly to introduce a proposed budget ...

Nine persons, including a 12-year-old boy have been abducted in Pegi community, a resettlement area in Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The victims were kidnapped last night around 8:00pm by gunmen who dressed in military camouflage. The gunmen shot at two vehicles, including one NISSAN ...

The Akin Fadeyi Foundation, Conveners of the Corruption Not In My Country Project are set to launch a new mobile and web application device designed to empower Nigerians to report corruption on October 10, 2019 at the ShehuYar’Adua Centre, Abuja. The Report-Corruption-App, called FLAG’IT, a project initiated by the Akin ...

BUSINESS FIDELITY BANK TO GIVE OUT N120M IN GAIM PROMO FIDELITY Bank Plc has announced the takeoff of its “Get Alert In Millions (GAIM) Season 4” promo during which N120 million will be won. The GAIM promo is expected to run till April 2020, a duration of six months. Speaking ...

It was a hot afternoon on Wednesday, June 5. The scorching sun bore no mercy on Haruna Dauda as he worked on hides in a micro industry located at Umar Babura road, Bompai, Kano. While work was ongoing, Mr Dauda’s phone rang. He said he ignored the call first time, ...

With a view to enhance financial inclusion across the country, First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced its drive to get up to 500,000 operators on board its agent banking platform. This was disclosed at the opening ceremony of the 12th Annual Conference of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of ...

The police in Kaduna on Thursday raided a home with over 300 people in Rigasa in the Igabi Local Government Area of  Kaduna State. The cops freed about 300 people who were chained in the house, including children. They were said to be from Burkina Faso, Mali and other African ...

About one-third of African students studying in the U.S. are Nigerians, an official said on Wednesday. The Cultural Affairs Officer of the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, Malia Heroux, made this known during an education fair for Nigerian students seeking admission into American universities for undergraduate and graduate studies. The fair, ...

United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc and the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry(LCCI), have assured small medium enterprises (SMEs) that the 2019 Lagos International Trade Fair will bring far reaching benefits that will help transform their businesses and take it to the next level. UBA’s Head Group Consumer Retail Business, Mr. Jude ...