The Aare Ona Kakanfo designate of Yorubaland, Gani Adams said his involvement in various cultural festivals was to preserve and celebrate Yoruba heritage.

Nigeria remains key investment destination – Oxford group

Women at different fora in Plateau State have regularly lamented their non-inclusion not only in politics but other sectors of life and consistently demanded equity in available opportunities with the claim that they can do better if given the chance. It is in a bid to project women in the critical electoral space that political parties have at different times offered forms freely to women to contest for their parties tickets to several positions.

The House of Representatives, yesterday, kicked against the new local language policy proposed by the Nigerian Army.

The Lagos State Government, yesterday, launched two Coding Centres for CodeLagos, an initiative of state Ministry of Education aimed at using technology to drive the economy and infrastructure development of the state.

The European Union has said  it is ready to support Nigeria in its bid towards bridging gender inequality in the country.

The Igbo Renaissance has faulted the claim by the Nigeria Judicial Council, NJC, that Ndigbo were not short-changed in the recent appointment of Appeal Court justices, saying the South-East zone was actually sidelined in the process.

 In commemoration of 2017 International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls, marked with 16 days activism against gender based violence by the United Nations from 25th November to 10th December, Jabez House and AlphaZulu held a roundtable last weekend on fundamental gaps which continue to increase the spade of physical, sexual and psychological violence.

AKWA Ibom and Delta state governments have denied and faulted media reports that they are owing workers’ salaries, saying they are  up to date with the payment of salaries.

Justice E. A. Obile of a  Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, has dismissed  a suit filed by UNICEM, a cement manufacturing company, challenging the powers of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, to regulate and control the exportation, importation, manufacture, advertisement, distribution, sale and use of chemicals in Nigeria.

World Health Organisation, WHO yesterday said despite an estimated US$ 2.7 billion invested in malaria control and elimination efforts globally in 2016 the world were still well below the target of $6.5 billion annual investment required to meet the 2030 targets of the WHO global malaria strategy.

Status quo was maintained in the female wrestling event which ended yesterday as the champions in their various weight categories retained their places at the Governor Nyesom Wike Wrestling Challenge holding at the indoor Sports Hall of the Alfred Diete Spiff Civic Centre, Port Harcourt.

FG approves movable assets as collateral for lending to SMEs

The administration of justice has received another boost with the introduction of an innovation aimed at assisting the Judiciary to effectively monitor judgments on appeal from the court of first instance, usually High Courts  to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.

FMBN disburses over N7bn loan to 800 beneficiaries in 2017