Category: National/Politics

Heritage Bank, NIMASA Partner On Global Maritime Safety Standards

Heritage Bank PLC, Nigeria’s most innovative banking service provider, and Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) have joined forces to educate stakeholders about the maritime enforcement global benchmarks. The training session, which had as its theme: Maritime Enforcement Safety: Current Global Benchmarks, had representatives of these organizations present: Nigerian Navy, Nigerian Ports Authority, Lagos…

Travellers Magazine Names Jumia MD Among Top 100 Tourism Personalities

Managing Director of Jumia’s hotel and flight services, Omolara Adagunodo, has been named among the top 100 tourism personalities in Nigeria this year by Travellers Magazine, the First Travel Magazine in West Africa published since 1996. Also on the list are Otunba Olusegun Runsewe – DG, National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC); Folorunsho Folarin…

World Food Day: Over 30% Farmland In Niger Delta Lost To Floods—Uduaghan

The immediate past governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, has disclosed that over 30 per cent of farmland in the Niger Delta region has been lost to this year’s ravaging flood. Uduaghan, a senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the Delta South Senatorial District in the 2019 general elections, noted that the…

Court Never Barred APC From Sending Delta Candidates’ List To INEC—Party

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State has denied reports that a Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, the state capital, has restrained the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party from submitting the list of party candidates for the 2019 election from Delta State to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). This clarification…

Kogi East Senate: APC, Echocho Hire Thugs To Harass Electorates

Fresh information reaching us reveal that the Kogi State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its senatorial candidate for Kogi East district in the 2019 general elections, Jibrin Isah Echocho, have allegedly enlisted thugs to disrupt the forthcoming senatorial election in the zone. According to sources, the APC has perfected a grand plan…