Bandit’s storm Abuja community, abduct 8 persons, kill housewife
By: Kingsley Omonobi – Abuja. Armed bandits have reportedly shot and killed a house-wife and abducted 8 eight other residents at Piri, an Abuja community in the Kwali Area Council of the FCT. The kidnappers were said to have stormed the remote community community in the wee hiurs connecting Tuesday and Wednesday morning. READ ALSO:Banditry, […]
40-years-old Opeyemi seeks N9m for Kidney Transplant
The family of Fatai Jimoh Opayemi is desperately calling on Nigerians to help save the life of their father who is currently down with End-Stage Renal failure
Uzoma Uponi’s new novel highlights plight of albinos in Africa
Japhet Davidson Consolidating on the successes of her two previous works, Nigerian writer and Commonwealth Writers Prize finalist, Uzoma Uponi, has published a third novel titled ColorSTRUCK. At a virtual book presentation on Saturday, November 27, 2021, Uponi spoke about her commitment to tackling social injustice in Africa with her writing. Accordingly, ColorSTRUCK highlights the plight of African albinos, […]
UPDATED: BPE Names Akinwumi AEDC Interim MD
The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has named Mr. Bada Akinwumi as Interim Managing Director (MD) of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) Plc.
2021/2022 NPFL season: Sunshine Stars FC set top-4 target
Akin Akinbobola, Chairman, Sunshine Stars FC of Akure, says the goal of the team is to finish in the top-four position at the end of the 2021/2022 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season. Akinbobola, who spoke on Thursday ahead of a four-team invitational tournament in Abuja, said the tournament would be an integral part of […]
NSITF pays N530m compensation in 5-months – MD
THE Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, on Wednesday said that it paid the sum of N529,962,770.07 (Five Hundred and Twenty-nine Million, Nine Hundred and Sixty two Thousand, seven Hundred and seventy and seventy Naira) as claims and compensation to 69,045 deserving workers.
Oromoni’s death, violence in schools further signs of govt failure — Afenifere
THE pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, yesterday, described the killing of Sylvester Oromoni, the 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki, allegedly beaten to death by some of his mates and the rampage at a secondary school in Edo State as ugly signs of how governments in Nigeria have failed the people.
Anxiety over plan to dissolve Ondo PDP exco
By Dayo Johnson Anxiety has gripped the Ondo state executives of the Peoples Democratic Party over an alleged plan to dissolve them from the ward to the state level. Sources told Vanguard that the alleged plan was to accommodate loyalists of the former Governor Olusegun Mimiko who recently joined the party from the Zenith Labour […]
Retail investors take positions in MTN public offer
· What is remarkable about the offer – Stock Exchange boss By Emeka Anaeto, Business Editor As the ground-breaking public offer of the 575 million units of ordinary shares of Nigeria’s telecom giant, MTN Nigeria, gets underway, feelers from the stock market indicate excitement that could lead to an oversubscription. But the parties to the offer […]
2023: Ayu challenges women to seek higher elective offices
Ahead of today’s inauguration of the new leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, national chairman of the party, Senator Iyorchia Ayu has called on women folks particularly those of PDP’s extraction to go for higher elective offices in the 2023 general elections.
NUPRC confirms capping of Nembe oil spill as containment effort continues
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) yesterday confirmed the successful stoppage of the Santa Barbara Oil spill at Nembe Creek in Bayelsa State.
Unlocking the potentials of AfCFTA: Impact on Insurance services
Global trade and commerce has always been driven by deliberate partnership and agreement reached amongst countries of the world to harness individual country’s potentials, especially where they have competitive advantage over the others. The essence is to make services and goods available to their citizenry. Efforts in this direction are age long, traceable to […]
Beating Barcelona at home, away was satisfying – Muller
By Emmanuel Okogba Bayern Munich forward, Thomas Muller said Spanish side, Barcelona cannot cope with the intensity that comes with top-level football. The comment follows a 3-0 drubbing of Barca that sent them down into the Europa League. It was the first time the Catalan club had failed to make it past the group stage […]
16 Days Activism: Enugu governor’s wife stresses more awareness against Gender-Based Violence
The wife of Enugu State Governor, Mrs. Monica Ugochi Ugwuanyi has stressed the need for more awareness and sensitization against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in schools, churches, markets and other public places in order to nip in the bud the nightmare of such heinous acts that threaten lives and dignity of women in the society.
Nathaniel Basset, Sinach, BeeJay Sax, Joepraize others for Unusual Praise
By Olayinka Latona THE annual gospel music event, Unusual Praise, is set to take place today, Friday, December 10, 2021 at Praise Land, near Catholic Church of the Divine Mercy, Periwinkle Estate, Freedom Way, Lekki, Lagos State. The theme for this year’s show is ‘O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath […]
Strategy for creating brand awareness
As we come to the end of the year, it’s time for us to take stock of the topics we have discussed thus far. We have defined a brand and how to build one, your value proposition; how to position your brand, and so on. Now, it is time to get your message out there. […]
