In a move to impact financial knowledge on Nigerian youths, Stanbic IBTC Bank, in partnership with Creative Youth Community Development Initiative, a Wole Soyinka Foundation, has organized a Financial Literacy forum for students of Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State during which they were taken through basis issues in finance, banking and …

Over 100 people have died in floods in several Nigerian states following heavy rains that caused the Rivers Niger and Benue to overflow, the National Emergency Management Agency announced Monday. The emergency body, NEMA, declared national disaster in the affected states of Kogi, Niger, Anambra and Delta. Eight other states …

From Saturday the 10th to Sunday the 11th of November, 2018, fashion enthusiasts all over the world will be treated to an unparalleled exposé of Africa’s finest in fashion at the 3rd edition of the GTBank Fashion Weekend. Holding in Lagos, one of Africa’s largest and most cosmopolitan cities, the two-day …

World football governing body, FIFA on Monday named Messrs Luca Piazza and Solomon Mudege as its observers to Thursday’s elections into the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Executive Committee 2018-2022. Mudege is FIFA’s Senior Manager for Development Programmes (Africa), while Piazza is a senior official in the FIFA President’s office. A …

By Alex Enumah in Abuja The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has dispatched eight Commissioners of Police, 40,000 personnel including two helicopters, 30 armoured personnel carriers and 300 patrol vehicles for the Osun governorship election holding on September 22. The police spokesman, Jimoh Moshood, explained that the security operation …

By Wole Mosadomi Minna—Senate  President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has boasted that he can never be impeached, saying All Progressives Congress, APC, championing the cause is in minority and does not have the powers to carry out the threat. He also made it clear that he would never step down as …

AHEAD of the All Progressives Congress, APC, primaries in Ondo State, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, weekend, asked members of his cabinet eyeing political seats to quit forthwith. Only four commissioners: Donald Ojogo of Works Ministry, Timehin Adelegbe of Commerce, Gboyega Adefarati of Agriculture and Olawunmi Olatunji of Women Affairs have picked …

A new book has revealed how former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, saved ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo from near bankruptcy before he emerged president in 1999. According to the new book, entitled ‘’Too Good to Die: Third Term and the Myth of the Indispensable Man in Africa,’ Atiku made all his resources available for …