The company responsible for creating positive and compelling brand image for South Africa, the Brand South Africa, has identified the Nigerian market as a key focus for its Africa programme. At a breakfast meeting held in Lagos recently, the outfit’s Chief Executive Officer, Miller Matola, disclosed that the choice of Nigeria alongside Angola, DRC, Ghana,…
tti Diamond Bank has reacted to speculations that its Group Managing Director/CEO, Alex Otti, has declared his intention to contest the Abia State governorship election in 2015 under the platform of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. In a statement made available to Aproko247 by the Bank’s Corporate Communications, Diamond Bank maintained that the several media…
In line with the mandate of the Corps in fighting oil theft, illegal bunkering and vandalism of public infrastructure, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, with the directives of the Commandant General Dr. Ade Abolurin, has intensified efforts to partner with all and sundry in order to win the war. The Corps as…
By Henry Ovie The Chairman, Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, Dr Ngozi Olejeme, has praised the Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, for setting high standards in sports, security and management of public finances, promising to continue where the governor will stop in 2015. “I must thank His Excellency, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan for a job…
There is no doubt that the possibility of the world coming to an end very soon is now very clear to everyone. The present world is critically ill and it’s now living in extraordinary and bizarre times. Strange and unimaginable things are happening almost everyday. The present world has started to reveal terrifying and mind-boggling…
Entertaining reality television programme, Supermom, has started its fifth season with ‘My Dad, My Supermom’. The show, put together by Digital Interactive Media Ltd, DIM, has become one of the annual anticipated programmes on television due to the revelations and entertainments it gives to viewers. The show has over the time transformed the concept reality…
Authorities of the Nigerian Army have confirmed that its men who fled to Cameroon during a gun duel with members of the terrorists group, Boko Haram on Monday, have returned to the country. The Army, embarrassed by media reports that the insurgents chased the Nigerian troops to Cameroon, claimed that military officers took a “tactical…
Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau, on Tuesday directed all schools in the country to remain closed due to the outbreak of Ebola in Nigeria. Addressing newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday after a meeting with Commissioners of Education, Shekarau said both public and private primary and secondary schools in Nigeria will not resume until Monday,…
The Federal Government said on Tuesday that the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, has now been brought under control in Nigeria. The Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, disclosed at a press briefing that only one Ebola patient is now left in the isolation centre in Lagos out of the 13 earlier confirmed cases. He further said…
A former general in the Nigerian Army has said that only miracle could take the over 200 schoolgirls in the den of Boko Haram group. Brigadier-General Idriss Bello Dambazau, a retired army officer and one time Chief of Army Staff, speaking in interview with Freedom Radio in Kano, said he is fully convinced that the…