Coca Cola has donated equipment worth N290 million to Federal Medical Center under its Safe Birth Initiative (SBI). The initiative is aimed at improving maternal outcomes and reducing child mortality incidents. The equipment and supplies worth about $800,000, which is over N290 million, were formally unveiled and handed over at a special event held at […]

Against the backdrop of a fresh $22.7 billion loan request approved by the Senate last week for the federal government, further adding to the mounting national debts, Mr Muda Yusuf, Director General, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), has canvassed for policies aimed at attracting equity from domestic and foreign private sector capital for infrastructure financing.

By Gabriel Ewepu and Jennifer Gideon – Abuja As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to commemorate 2020 International Women’s Day, a human rights organization, ActionAid Nigeria, AAN, yesterday, called on Federal Government to accelerate and actualize gender equality in Nigeria. Speaking on the Day, the Country Director, AAN, Ene Obi, described the process […]

Edo State Government has expressed its desire to float capital market instruments to boost development in the State.

  Godknows Boladei Igali On March 5th, 2020, most of the normal crowd around Nigeria’s Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, like a pilgrimage, gathered at the picturesque Obasanjo Presidential Library (OPL), Abeokuta, to celebrate the global citizen as he turned 83. Like most other years, the audience though tempered  by Coronavirus scare was diverse; Pan-Nigerian, […]

The Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, has said the sustenance of the successes of the ongoing public finance management  reforms of the Federal government  depends on the efforts and integrity of Directors of Finance and Accounts (DFAs) and Directors of Internal Audits (DIAs).   

By Perez Brisibe AN associate professor and chairman, Nigeria Institutions of Environment Engineers, NIEE, Asaba chapter, Dr. Hilary Owamah has lamented the rising spate of unemployment in the country stating that most graduates remain unemployed five years after graduation because they lack market-relevant skills. The academic don, made the disclosure during a one-day workshop tagged […]

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has called on the FCT Minister, Mr Mohammed Bello, to ban the use of motorcycles for commercial purposes in the territory, citing alleged gross misconduct by the riders. Mr Gora Wobin, FRSC Sector Commander in the FCT, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja on Monday that […]

By Emmanuel Okogba Chieneme Martins: The Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, has ordered that no Nigerian Professional Football League, NPFL, match should go ahead without the presence of paramedics. It also ordered that all Match Commissioners and the host FA are to ensure they inspect all the facilities including carrying out test runs before giving go-ahead […]

By Eric Teniola PRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo appointed Chief Godwin Eyarubere Omene, the first indigenous deputy Managing Director of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, the first Managing Director of NDDC. Chief Omene is from Delta State. President Obasanjo also appointed Chief Onyema Ugochukwu (76) as the pioneer Chairman of NDDC. He is from Abia State. […]

By Obadiah Mailafia THE poet Odia Ofeimun’s 70th birthday comes up on Monday, March 16. When I was a first-year undergraduate at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in the late ’70s, the name Odia Ofeimun was quietly making waves on campus. He was a youth corps member teaching in one of the secondary schools outside the […]

By Samuel Oyadongha YENAGOA – AN aspirant in the forthcoming Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide election, Bright Igrubia, Monday accused the Federal Government of playing politics with its promise to complete the East-West road. He said the project which remains the economic live wire of the people of the South-South region and the nation oil […]

Women Sales Associations (WoSAs), an NGO in Bauchi State, have urged women of reproductive age to embrace Child Birth Spacing (CBS) to achieve economic space in value chains of Rice, Soya Beans and Groundnuts. Some WoSAs officials from Dass, Toro and Bauchi Local Government Areas of the state gave the advice in separate interviews with […]

NIGERIA will celebrate her 60th Independence anniversary this year, but it will be typically low-keyed and heavily laced with lamentations over our failure to meet our national aspirations. Instead of achieving a prosperous and united Federal Republic, a showpiece of democracy in Africa and the pride of the Black World, Nigeria at 60 will still […]

Cormart Nigeria Ltd., a leading chemicals & food raw materials  company and a member of TGI Group recently announced its partnership with Barry Callebaut, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products.