Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF), on Wednesday, empowered a total of 16,000 women in all the 16 local government area of Kwara State. Each of the 16 thousand rural women were given the sum of N10,000 each, to help boost their petty trade and also start new businesses. In all, a total of N160,000 million were…
The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has emphasised that the Commission will always be open to ideas, innovations and meaningful collaboration with strategic institutions for the development of human capacity in Nigeria. Danbatta stated this while addressing the management of Nile University of Nigeria, when they…
The Federal Government has declared Friday 2nd and Monday 5th April 2021, Public Holidays to mark this year’s Easter Celebration. Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, urged Christians to emulate the attributes of forbearance, forgiveness, kindness, humility, love, peace and patience, which were demonstrated…
President Muhammadu Buhari says in spite of occasional inter-ethnic tensions in the country, Nigerians agree on the need to stay together. The president stated this at the 12th Asiwaju Bola Tinubu Colloquium held in Kano on Monday. “Despite occasional inter-ethnic tensions in our national history, it seems to me that we have all agreed on…
As part of efforts to harmonise the activities of licensed operators and their agents in the gaming sector, the Lagos State Lotteries Board (LSLB) is about to introduce an online application for the registration of all operators’ agents. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Board, Mr. Bashir Are, made this known in his address…
The Lagos state government has revealed that a total number of 127,885 Lagosians have taken the COVID -19 vaccine, 10 days after the exercise began. Commissioner for Health Prof. Akin Abayomi, who broke the news on Sunday, after he received reports of Day 10 of the exercise from the State Primary Health Care Board, said…
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has said that regular and improved water supply would be restored to Abeokuta and its environs, as soon as the ongoing rehabilitation work on a dam at Arakanga waterworks is completed in June. Abiodun who just signed the payment of salary arrears for the State Water Corporation staff also expressed…
President Mohammadu Buhari has revealed that Nigeria and Morocco have signed an agreement to develop a $1.3 billion Basic Chemicals Platform in Nigeria that will produce Ammonia and various NPK and DAP fertilisers, using Nigeria’s gas reserves. The President said with this agreement Nigeria is on its way to becoming a regional and global fertiliser…
A Chadian lady named Vivien Tarmadji has been arrested by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. She was arrested while trying to board an Ethiopian airline flight 911 enroute Addis Ababa-Italy with 234.35 grams of heroin concealed in her private part. The trafficker who…
Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has stressed the need for citizens, who fit into Phase One of the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination exercise, to register on the dedicated self-registration portal before visiting anyone of the 88 designated sites, noting that e-registration is now a mandatory protocol in the vaccination process in Lagos State.…