AFRIKANWATCH Media annual lecture and award as unveiling of Afrikanwatch National Memoir titled “Did our founding fathers have a dream of a united Nigeria” will hold  Saturday April 7, 2018 in Lagos.

PadTheGirl, an initiative founded by female corps members- serving in Lagos and focused on helping the girl child recently donated 1,000 sanitary pads to young girls in Igbologun community in Lagos State.

Nigeria’s current economic challenge traced to years of bad leadership has been attributed to lack of better sleep awareness just as VitaFoam Nigeria Plc furnished the first government sleep laboratory at the Federal Neuro-psychiatric Hospital Yaba, Lagos with mattresses, pillows, beds, among others to enhance the sleeping conditions of people with sleep challenges.

With over 2,000 Nigerian children empowered to fight tooth decay on this year’s World Oral Health, Unilever Nigeria Plc, makers of Pepsodent toothpaste is targeting 1.5 million Nigerian children for oral health education this year.

Jaiz Bank Plc and Islamic Corporation for the Development of Private Sector, ICD, the development arm of Islamic Development Bank, IDB, yesterday, signed a $20 million deal to finance Small and Medium Scale Enterprises, SMEs, in the country.

One by one, the industrialised and developed countries of the world are signing up for this shift which will take the wind from the sails of oil economies like Nigeria.

ABUJA—Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has suspended 205 staff over various unwholesome roles in the 2015 general elections.

Footwear Academy, a footwear training firm, has won the maiden edition of the Proudly Made in Aba Hackathon challenge, designed to proffer solution to challenges currently faced by Aba entrepreneurs, especially in the finished leather, garment and steel fabricating clusters.

Lionel Messi wants to win the World Cup with Argentina more than any player on the planet, according to team-mate Nicolas Otamendi, who believes the Barcelona star is the best in the world regardless.

Super Eagles manager Gernot Rohr has hinted that Deportivo de La Coruña starlet Francis Uzoho will be his first-choice goalkeeper at the 2018 World Cup, pointing out that he has not conceded a goal since making his international debut.

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ABAKALIKI—NATIONAL Political Science Association, NPSA, yesterday stated that the lingering rift between President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly was capable of retarding the speedy growth and development of the country to a very large extent.

Dr. Clement I. Alile turns 75 today,  April 1, 2018 (“for real”, not April fool). Dr. Alile, a pioneer Veterinary Surgeon in the defunct Bendel State Public Service was also Commissioner for Commerce and Industry in the state, later.

Youth wing of Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has described as shameful, mischievous and a calculated attempt to rubbish the good intention of Niger Delta leaders, the assertion that the historical rally by the group in Bayelsa State, was for selected Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, members.

EDO State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has again denied the allegation by a group, Reform Mandate Group, that the party left a debt burden of N100 billion for All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2008, insisting that it was blatantly false.