Leading financial institution, Union Bank has launched a technological and innovation hub known as SpaceNXT. Built to promote innovation and encourage collaboration within the tech ecosystem in Nigeria, SpaceNXT is a future-forward purpose designed co-working hub for innovators, creators and techpreneurs. Located within the Union Bank Head Office in Lagos Nigeria, SpaceNXT was set up…
Africa’s Global Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has assured shareholders and investors of its unwavering commitment to sustain its current growth trajectory even as its efforts at business diversification across Africa and beyond continues to yield increasing returns. The Group Chairman, Tony Elumelu, who made this declaration at UBA’s 60th Annual General Meeting,…
Towards enhancing agriculture and creation of jobs, Dangote Fertiliser Limited is to train over one million farmers in the next three years. The training, which is part of the Fertiliser company’s agriculture extension services will involve Spot Demonstrations, Result Demonstrations, Field Demonstrations and Soil Samples Collections. According to Mr. Uchenna Nwankwo of Dangote Fertiliser, the…
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has ordered the posting of new Commissioners of Police to Edo, Adamawa, Kaduna, and Imo States. The new commissioners are, CP Abutu Yaro to head Edo State Police Command, CP Sikiru Akande Kayode is the Commissioner to head Adamawa State Police Command, CP Yekini Adio Ayoku is…
A Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, was Wednesday told how the former Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, allegedly diverted N15 million from the board to set up a personal radio station in his hometown. Prosecution witness, retired Air Commodore Najeem Sanusi, who testified before the trial judge,…
The Senate has approved the establishment of the Federal University of Transportation in President Muhammadu Buhari’s hometown, Daura, Katsina State. The approval came with the passage of a bill seeking its establishment. The passage of the bill followed the consideration of a report by the Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND. Chairman of the Committee,…
Several weeks after the Lagos state government suspended the operations of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), the Government has appointed an ex-chairman of the Union, Musiliu Akinsanya popularly called MC Oluomo, as the chairman of its Parks Management Committee. The Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotoso, who disclosed…
The Senate, on Wednesday, considered a bill to establish the National Religious Harmony Commission. The National Religious Harmony Commission (Establishment) Bill 2022, sponsored by Senator Sadiq Suleiman Umar (Kwara North), scaled second reading during plenary. Leading debate on the general principles of the bill, Umar the piece of legislation seeks to establish the NRHC to…
A notorious queen of drug cartel supplying psychoactive substances to traffickers in Taraba state, Lami Mai Rigima has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA months after being on their wanted list. Spokesman of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi said in a statement on Wednesday that the 40-year-old queen of the…
The House of Representatives has mandated its Committees on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) and Gas Resources to investigate the outrageous rise in the prices of diesel and cooking gas in the country. The committees were given a time frame of six weeks by the House to conclude the assignment. The motion, which led to the resolution,…