Ogeah Delta State governor, Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa, and former Commissioner for Information, Chike Ogeah Esq, will be honoured with special awards by the Delta State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) as part of activities marking the Press Week of the NUJ in Asaba. Okowa will be given …
Read More »Heritage Bank partners Generation Next to position 1, 500 pupils for leadership roles
Heritage Bank Limited, Nigeria’s Most Innovative Banking Services Provider has partnered with Generation Next, a-non-governmental organisation to prepare over 1, 500 secondary school students for leadership rolethat will take Nigeria to greater heights in the future. The programme, themed: “Raising Emotionally Intelligent Generation,” held in Lagos yesterday, spanneddigital knowledge, career, …
Read More »Okorocha laments Atiku’s exit, faults Tinubu on Buhari’s ticket
The Imo State Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has said the exit of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar from the ruling All Progressives Congress is not a good development for the party. Atiku, a former Vice-President, defected recently from the ruling party to the Peoples Democratic Party. Okorocha spoke with journalists after he …
Read More »Buhari Heads for Paris, to Participate in ‘One Planet Summit’
President Muhammadu Buhari will tomorrow join over 50 other world leaders to participate in ‘One Planet Summit’ in Paris, France. The summit, according to the president’s media adviser, Mr. Femi Adesina, is jointly organised by the United Nations, World Bank Group, and French government in collaboration with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) …
Read More »Oyedepo curses buyers, sellers of human parts at Shiloh 2017
PRESIDENT of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, a.k.a Winners Chapel International, Bishop David Oyedepo on Saturday at Shiloh 2017, slammed a capital verdict on ritualists dealing with human parts in any part of the country. Bishop Oyedepo Delving into a three-fold teaching on the mysteries of the anointing oil, the …
Read More »BUA using militia, soldiers to mine site allocated to Dangote – Ministry
Family of four killed by fire in Lagos
fire An overnight fire has killed a family of four, simply identified as Eze’s family, at No. 13, Buraimoh street, Bariga area of Lagos. The Director of Lagos State Fire Service, Mr. Rasak Fadipe, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Lagos. Fadipe said the …
Read More »My cousin died, l nearly lost my son to typhoid fever – Okonjo-Iweala
The Chairperson of the Board of Vaccine Alliance, Prof. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has revealed how she lost her cousin and nearly lost her son too, to typhoid fever. She said this while assuring that more children will be protected against typhoid fever with the new funding of the typhoid conjugate vaccines. …
Read More »In passing the 2018-2020 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF), the Senate and House of Representatives have increased the price for the crude oil benchmark from $45 per barrel to $47. This is in the wake of the consideration of the report of the Committee on Finance, Appropriations and National Planning and Economic Affairs …
Read More »Court unfrezees Patience Jonathan’s 16 accounts
Patience Jonathan Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja has lifted an order made on May 30, freezing 16 bank accounts linked to wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience. Justice Nyako in a ruling yesterday ordered the lifting of the freezing order that barred Mrs. Jonathan …
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