By Peter Duru – Makurdi The 2021 World Breastfeeding Week, WBW, with the global theme, Protect Breastfeeding: A Shared Responsibility, may have come and gone but the campaigns to instill in mothers the practice of ensuring the proper breastfeeding of their babies and young children have become a daily grind in a place like Benue […]

Delta State Government on Monday reiterated readiness to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in harnessing the abundant human and natural resources to transform the state into one of the most developed in the country.  The Commissioner for Economic Planning, Dr Barry Pere-Gbe, disclosed this at the 2022 Citizens Budget Engagement Forum at the Unity Hall, Government House, […]

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has dismissed a viral video purporting that gunmen attacked its operatives at Umueri, Anambra East Local Government Area on Monday. The video alleged the targeting of NSCDC personnel and the burning of their operational vehicle. In a statement issued on Monday by the NSCDC Anambra Command, the […]

Police in Ogun said on Sunday that they have arrested a 33-year-old man for unlawfully having carnal knowledge of a 27-year-old lady. Police spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said in a statement that the suspect was arrested on Saturday, following a report lodged at Sakora Divisional Headquarters, Sagamu, by the victim. He stated that the alleged […]

…Graduates 500 beneficiaries The administration of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State through the state’s Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) Centre has announced the decision to train additional 500 youths in Programming and Product Design as part of the concerted efforts of the state government to create employment opportunities for about 5,000 youths in the […]

The Department of State Services (DSS) has released the eight aides of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, in its custody. Lawyer to the detainees, Pelumi Olajengbesi, confirmed their release on Monday at a press conference in Abuja. Of the 12 persons who have been in the custody of the security […]

Women in Management, Business & Public Service, WIMBIZ has said that the proportion of female representation and participation in public service and politics including both elective and appointive positions in Nigeria, is disheartening

The Minister of Finance and Budget Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed,  on Monday unveiled the details of what propelled a strong economic showing resulting in the attainment of Gross Domestic Product of 5.01 by Nigeria in the second quarter of 2021.

The General Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South-West zone, Rahman Owokoniran, has commiserated with the family and friends of Chief Rasheed Williams, the Ajiroba of Lagos State, who died today, aged 85 years.

By Dayo Johnson – Akure Families of an 18-year-old girl, Stella Gabriel yesterday cried out over the whereabout of their daughter after sitting for an entrance examination at the Ondo State School of Health Technology, Akure, Ondo state two week ago. Stella was declared missing by her family on the 18th August, 2021. The whereabout of […]