The Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has ordered the closure of the Sani Abacha Stadium in Kofar Mata for two weeks, The Nation is reporting. The closure of the stadium was ordered five days to the scheduled campaign of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar by …

  President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, in Ondo State asked Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to stop making noise about plans to rig elections when their mentor, former President Olusegun Obasanjo had always rigged elections on the platform of the party. According to him, PDP has no right to complain about election …

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, has expressed optimism that another revolution, similar to what was recorded in the production of rice production, was about to occur in the tomato sub-sector. The CBN Governor said this while speaking during a facility tour of Dangote Tomato Processing …

United Bank for Africa (UBA Group) kicked off the first session of the week-long Social Media Week Lagos 2019 with the announcement that its chatbot Leo now covers 17 African countries and has one million subscribers. Leo was launched in January 2018 to enable customers of the bank have access …

Lagos, Nigeria – Fast rising Independent measurement and evaluation agency, P+ Measurement Services, has launched a measurement and evaluation training program, MATE+ to train young and mid-level marketing and communications professionals in Nigeria. Measure|Analyze|Train|Evaluate + (MATE+), is designed to help close the knowledge and experience gap in media measurement and evaluation, by granting trainees access to classroom styled …

A TEMPORARY suspension of a travel ban linked to decade-old bribery scandals paved the way for former vice president and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar to make his Washington DC trip last month, a report in Reuters said yesterday. The report quoted diplomats and those with the trip. It …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday refuted allegation of disagreements in the party over the handling of its presidential campaign funds. The party made the denial in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja. It described the insinuation as laughable, infantile and diversionary, and …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has registered 1,205,187 candidates for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, which is scheduled to take place between Saturday, March 16 and Saturday, March 23, with Lagos and Kaduna states recording the highest registrations of 161,654 and 76,049 candidates, respectively. The board also said …

Keystone Bank Limited, Nigeria’s most innovative banking services provider, has introduced ‘Cheque Deposit’ feature in its mobile banking application, the new ‘Keystone Mobile App’. The feature which is another first from the Bank and in the Nigerian banking sector, enables customers to pay cheques into their accounts at their convenience …

Immediate-past governor of Delta State and All Progressives Congress 2019 Delta South senatorial candidate, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, has revealed why he decided to team up with Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru, the state APC governorship candidate to ensure all-round victory for the party in the coming elections. Speaking at the …