The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has announced three senior executive appointments, effective yesterday. This follows the launch of the 2021 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme, on  www.TEFConnect.com, which this year prioritises the economic recovery of small and medium scale enterprises and young African entrepreneurs, following the disruptive effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Tony Elumelu Foundation, which […]

…75 healthcare workers infected in one week …FG warns airlines against imposing ‘new testing regime’ on passengers …Cautions states on rising case fatalities …Warns MDAs against forcing workers on GL12 to resume …Ensure full enforcement of COVID-19 health protection regulations 2021, IGP orders AIGs, CPs …PTF declares Kogi ‘high risk’ for COVID-19, warns against visiting […]

By Kingsley Omonobi Following calls on President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint the next Inspector General of Police from the South East which lost out in appointment of service chiefs, the Presidency said, yesterday, that appointment would not be based on ethnicity but ability to secure lives and property in the country. The IGP, Mohammed Adamu’s […]

“People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.” This quote by the renowned marketing guru Seth Godin captures aptly the widely successful “Retire Today” campaign by Detail and Avedia (D & A) and Oak Pensions Limited. While the pension industry experienced a major shift through the Pension Transfer Window initiative by […]

TOP gladiators of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, yesterday, stormed the stakeholders meeting of the party in the state, in readiness for the commencement of the party’s membership registration and revalidation exercise.

By Oluwadamisi Adegbolagun Over the last few decades, our world has seen atrocities committed at a rate never imagined. From the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in the United States in 2001 that left so many people dead; to the kidnapping of 276 female students from the town of Chibok in Borno State, […]

By Rafiu Ajakaye On assumption of office in May 2019, the immediate challenge before Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq was to stabilise Kwara State. From primary healthcare, basic education, nutrition, water, access roads, cash-starved civil service, and many more, the state tottered on the brinks of collapse and required emergency measures to restore normalcy. That explains the […]

The Ogun government on Monday refuted reports on some social media platforms insinuating that it had enlisted the help of Mr. Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho, to combat crimes in the state. The State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Alhj. Abdulwaheed Odusile, dismissed the report in in a statement issued in Abeokuta. Odusile said that […]

…Plans alliance with labour unions, CSOs, women groups, youths, others …As Comrade Charles heads  governorship selection committee By Chris Ochayi The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has vowed to take over the reigns of political leadership of the country at the centre, beginning with the November 6, 2021 governorship election in Anambra State. The party said […]

By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor Let me start with a Caveat: Don’t ever start an argument with this tall and brilliant man if you’re not well armed with the facts of the matter you want to take him on! I won’t forget in a hurry that fierce argument between me and Babatunde Raji Fashola, […]