The Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Segun Ogunsanya, has been listed among important thought leaders in the corporate and government circles that will speak at this year’s edition of the prestigious Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Conference. Ogunsanya, who was recently named African CEO of the …

  Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has reiterated his administration’s vision to make the state the economic and industrial hub of the South-East region and a preferred investment destination in the country. Speaking when the ambassador of the Peoples Republic of China, Mr. Zhou Pingjian, paid a courtesy visit …

  Opening Remarks by His Excellency The Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, GCON, At The National Economic Council, NEC, National Security Retreat, at the Banquet Hall of The State House, Abuja, 17 August 2017: I am delighted to welcome you to this special session of the National Economic Council, …

  President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has described former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida as a major part of Nigeria’s political history. In a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, to congratulate the former Head of State on the occasion …

  The Federal Government on Thursday handed over the Presidential Lodge, Marina to the Lagos State Government in fulfillment of the promise of President Muhammadu Buhari to entrust the edifice to the State for tourism development.   In a brief but impressive ceremony held at the main conference room of …

The Bayelsa State Government has announced plans to commission another round of its completed state of the art projects spread across the state.   The latest commissioning is coming few weeks after former Head of State Gen. Yakubu Gowon and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, visited the state to inaugurate …

The wife of the Ondo State Governor, Mrs. Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu has charged government, stakeholders and the society at large on the need to provide the needed support system to save more breast cancer patients across the country. Speaking with journalists at a Press Conference organized by the Breast Cancer Association …

Danjuma James, Sokoto Sokoto state government said it has allocated lands for commercial cultivation of some important economic trees including Gum Arabic, Moringa, Dates and Shea trees. Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal stated this Thursday when he flagged off the state’s annual tree planting campaign in Bodinga LGA. “Studies have shown …

The Amirul Hajj of Gombe State Pilgrims to this year’s Hajj exercise in Saudi-Arabia, Ambassador Haruna Garba, has explained why intending pilgrims from the State could not get their Basic Traveling Allowances (BTA) of $800 each before leaving the country. The situation which caused a lot of disaffection, grumblings and …

The Gombe State Police Command says it will deploy no less than 1,000 Policemen for the Dukku North State Assembly bye election holding this Saturday. The State Police Commissioner, Mr. Austin Iwar, stated this Thursday at the Command’s Headquarters during its quarterly conference with Senior Police Officers of the Command. …

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has scheduled its 7th Annual Lecture series to hold on Thursday, August 24, 2017, at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The event, which is to hold by 1100hrs is themed “Achieving the goals of the UN …

Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has donated a truck-load of food, baby items and cash to the local farmer whose wife gave birth quadruplets in Sokoto last weekend. A statement issued by Tambuwal’s spokesman, malam Imam Imam, said the man, Lawwali Maishinkafa Illela, was given the sum of N500,000 to support …

Kwara state government has secured another investment in agriculture to the state as part of efforts to turn the state to agricultural hub in the North central part of the country and provide sustainable employment for the youths. The Managing Director, Quinn Mc Grath Nig. Ltd, Mr Didi Ndiomu during …

 A major security breach was recorded at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in the early hours of Wednesday, August 16, 2017 as unknown gunmen attacked the office located at Wuse Zone 7, Abuja.  The group of heavily armed bandits invaded the office at about 05.00 …

  CHINEDU WOSU, YENAGOA Bayelsa state Commissioner of Police, Asuquo Amba on Wednesday  charged members of Police Officers Wives Association, POWA, to use the skills acquired through the Food, Safety and Sanitation training workshop to improve the standard of their homes and humanity. Amba spoke  in Yenagoa  on Wednesday while …

  Six more talents made it to the Live Show of Airtel The Voice Nigeria season 2 in a soulful showdown on Sunday night – taking the total number of qualified contestants to 22.     Two out of the six contestants made it through a steal from other coaches as the battle …

CHINEDU WOSU, YENAGOA Opu-Okumbiri Community in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa state on Wednesday raised alarm over the frequent unwarranted attacks by  trawlers on local fishermen in the continental shelf shallow waters. The community’s leadership also called on the state and the Federal governments to intervene in the frequent …

 The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has lamented that the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) comes with attendant unprecedented and untold challenges and hardship to both students and their parents.  The President of NANS, Comrade Chinonso Obasi, at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, …

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked Mrs. Fatou Bensouda Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC) to use her “good offices and leadership position to investigate whether the allegations of widespread, systematic and large-scale corruption in the electricity sector since the return of democracy in 1999 and under the governments …

A Lagos-based fitness expert, Sir Goodluck Etom Obi (a.k.a the fitness master) has urged the federal government to reduce import duties on fitness equipment to make them accessible to the average Nigerian whose health are endangered due to lack of exercise. According to Sir Obi, who is the Chief Executive …

The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has inaugurated a seven-man committee of enquiry to investigate the activities of Edo State Polytechnic, Usen. He charged the committee to carefully scrutinize the financial books, admission process, quality of the training programmes, lecturers, administration, the ratio of students to lecturers and …

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared  that nobody will clamour for the restructuring of the country   once the Federal Government adopts a just governance model. He said that a governance model that emphasises  the equitable  distribution  of resources and projects will promote unity and the  rapid growth …

  A Speech Delivered by Dr. Akin Ogunbiyi, Chairman, Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc and Special Guest of Honour at the 1st Annual Conference of the Guild of Online Publishers (GOCOP) at Renaissance Lagos Ikeja Hotel,Isaac John Street, GRA, Ikeja on Thursday 10thAugust, 2017    Let me start by saluting fellow …

A frontline contender in the November 18, 2017 Anambra governorship election, Chief Osita Chidoka, has denied being suspended by his party, the United Progressive Party (UPP). A statement by Viola Ifeyinwa Okolie, Director Media, Osita Chidoka Campaign, said that the story of Chidoka’s suspension was the handiwork of agents whose aim is …