CRC Credit Bureau Limited has launched its mobile application called CRC Mobile. It is the first of its kind in the Nigerian Credit Bureau industry.

The Lagos High Court, Ikeja, on Monday ordered government hospitals in the state to stop demanding compulsory blood donations from women seeking antenatal and maternity services. Justice Raliat Adebiyi, who delivered the ruling, also restrained government hospitals in the state from demanding blood donations from spouses and other relations of pregnant women seeking antenatal and […]

LAGOS — Minister of State for Health, Senator Adeleke Olurunnimbe Mamora, yesterday gave a breakdown of the 100 people said to have had contact with the COVID-19 index case and have been traced by the government.

PRESIDENT of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan has called on religious leaders in the country to pray for Nigeria and its leadership, saying that the country will eventually overcome its tribulations.

By Femi Bolaji – Jalingo A suspected child trafficker, Mary Yakubu have been arrested in Taraba state with 23 children by officers of the Nigerian Police. The infants who were between the ages of 4 and 7 comprise of 14 boys and 9 girls. They were intercepted by the police at a park in Bali […]

YOUTH Council of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS has conferred the Nelson Mandela Leadership Award of Excellence and Integrity as Africa Man of Year on the immediate past Executive Director, Projects, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Engr. Samuel Adjogbe.

Iran said Monday that novel coronavirus had killed 12 more people in the Islamic republic, raising the country’s overall death toll to 66. The number of confirmed cases leapt by 523 from the previous day, to a total of 1,501, Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raisi told a news conference. “We are announcing 523 new cases infected […]

 
At the heart of empowering a nation and developing communities is women empowerment, letting them express their opinions as individuals. Studies and research carried out by organizations such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and Africa Development Bank continue to assert this by adopting gender-based strategies in a bid to eradicate poverty and improve the economy of a nation.

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri The Supreme Court, on Monday, adjourned the hearing of the application seeking to restore Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the Governor of Imo State, till Tuesday. A seven-man panel of Justices of the apex court led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad, adjourned the […]

Emmanuel Elebeke A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Maurice Iwu, said on Monday his team had discovered a cure for the deadly coronavirus. Iwu, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Bioresources Institute of Nigeria, stated this when he led his team of researchers to brief the Minister of Science […]

By Chioma Onuegbu – Uyo A pressure group in Akwa Ibom state, under the aegis of Oro Youth Movement, OYOM, has lamented the unnecessary interference of the federal government in the leadership of the Presidential Amnesty Programme. President of the group, Comrade Etifit Nkereuwem stated this yesterday in Uyo while reacting to the suspension of […]

Russian authorities on Monday confirmed the first case of coronavirus in Moscow, saying the patient had recently returned from Italy. The anti-coronavirus task force said in a statement quoted by Russian news agencies that the “young man” had fallen ill on February 21 while on vacation to Italy. The man, who resides outside Moscow, returned […]

The Senate President, Sen. Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, has applauded Governor Udom Emmanuel on his approach to governance and national development, describing him as the face of the new Nigerian politician.

When Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari was named by the African Union as its first “anti-corruption champion in Africa” in 2018, he called on member states to “invest in institutions to entrench transparency and accountability.”

The second fatality on US soil from the novel coronavirus has been confirmed, health officials said Sunday, as New York reported its first case. The man, who died Saturday, was in his 70s and had “underlying health conditions,” according to the public health office in King County, Washington state. The death occurred in King County, […]