FirstBank, Nigeria’s premier financial institution and financial inclusion services provider, was announced as the Best Corporate Bank at the recent prestigious Euromoney Awards for Excellence, Nigeria 2023. The Bank clinched the coveted award based on its 130-year commitment to enabling its corporate customers achieve success through relevant and tailored …
Read More »Glo hails Eagles, urges team to bring Nations Cup home
Nigeria’s leading corporate supporter of football, Globacom, has lauded the national football team, Super Eagles, over their well-deserved victory against South Africa and qualification for the final of the 2023 African Cup of Nations. The team defeated hard fighting Bafana Bafana by 4 goals to 2 in a penalty shootout …
Read More »Kogi: Anti-Corruption CSOs warn EFCC against ‘cankerworms of previous management’
. Advise Olukoyede to shut out miscreants mistaking EFCC for political structure . Say latest charge against ex-Kogi Gov embarrassing, reflects victimization Anti-Corruption Civil Society Organisations, on Wednesday, warned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, under the leadership of Ola Olukoyede, to refrain from allowing “cankerworms of the previous …
Read More »15 Nigerian drug kingpins jailed total 168 years
Retired Gen. Buba Marwa, NDLEA boss Fifteen Nigerian drug kingpins were jailed a total of 168 years in 2023 for various drug offences, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) disclosed on Wednesday. NDLEA’s Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (Retd) disclosed this while addressing commanders, officers and men …
Read More »88.4m Nigerians living in extreme poverty – Permanent Secretary
Nigerian population: Official says 88.4m Nigerians are living in extreme poverty The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Mr Temitope Fadeshemi says 88.4 million Nigerians are living in extreme poverty. Fadeshemi spoke on Wednesday in Kaduna during the distribution of farm inputs and empowerment materials to …
Read More »AFCON: APC Governors Donate N200m To Super Eagles Ahead Of South Africa Clash
Super Eagles Players Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have donated N200 million to Nigeria’s Super Eagles ahead of their semi-final clash with South Africa. Minister of Sports, John Owan Enoh, made this known in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Diana-Mary …
Read More »Anambra Lawmaker Moves To Stop NAFDAC’s Sachet Alcohol Ban
Coalition Against Economic Saboteurs besiege National Assembly over ban on sale of alcoholic beverages in sachet and small bottles. The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the rationale behind the ban imposed on the production of alcoholic beverages in sachets and small bottles by the National Agency for Food …
Read More »Nigerian Digital News Platforms Attracted 1.6 Billion Visits in 2023
LAGOS.07.02.2024. RANKED, a digital news ranking report by SquirrelPR tracked 80 of Nigeria’s most influential digital news platforms from January to December 2023 and found that they attracted 1.6 billion visits within the period. RANKED by SquirrelPR was launched in Q1, 2023 to provide media relations practitioners in Nigeria with deeper insights into the …
Read More »LOVE IS IN THE AIR: WHAT’S YOUR LOVE LANGUAGE?
We are in the month of love people! (sorry single pringles). Cupid has already started moving about with his bow and arrow looking for hearts to shoot down. Everywhere you turn in the month of February screams L.O.V.E. It’s in your face, ears, mouth… You can feel it, touch it, …
Read More »EFCC’S POLITICAL AGENDA EXPOSED AS COMMISSION DESPERATELY CHARGES YAHAYA BELLO FOR DIVERTING KOGI’S FUNDS MONTHS BEFORE HE ASSUMED OFFICE
.SAYS ROGUES POLITICIANS CONNIVING WITH COMMISSION TO TARNISH COUNTRY’S ANTI-CORRUPTION IMAGE . INSISTS KOGI’S MONEY WORKING FOR ITS PEOPLE, NOT MISSING The Kogi State Government has raised the alarm over what it described as a desperate attempt by “criminals masquerading as politicians” to tarnish the image of the immediate past …
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