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Month: February 2019

Ecobank Assures Customers of a Memorable Valentine

 Ecobank Nigeria has stated that its innovative digital products are available to make this Valentine season an exciting one for its customers.  The bank’s customers are being offered mouth-watering  deals and offers when they pay with EcobankPay at designated merchant locations in Aba, Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt . Executive Director, Commercial Banking, Carol Oyedeji, who […]

Airtel Nigeria Wins Leadership Newspaper’s ‘Brand of the Year’ 2018 Awards

Leading telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has been named ‘Brand of the Year 2018’ by the Board of Editors of one of Nigeria’s foremost newspapers, Leadership Newspaper. The editors, in a citation, said Airtel was deserving of the honour because it has demonstrated intense interest and commitment to supporting laudable causes through its Corporate Social […]

2019 Elections: DSS Assures Adequate Security, Warns Fake News Peddlers

As Nigerians go to the polls to elect their leaders at the national and state levels, the Department of State Services (DSS) has assured all of provision of adequate security throughout the period of the electoral process. DSS also warns prospective law breakers  to steer clear of acts capable of undermining national security and stability. […]

Judicial Independence Under Threat In Nigeria, Warns Un Rights Expert

The dismissal of Nigeria’s Chief Justice may constitute a grave attack on judicial independence from the State, a UN-appointed independent rights expert said warning of “threats, pressures and interferences” made against the lawyers defending him. As was contained in a UN report,  Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen, was suspended on 25 January, the independent UN Special […]

Oil Theft: 34 Pirate Ship Attacks Recorded in 2018 – Navy

The Nigerian Navy has said that it recorded about thirty-four (34) pirate ship attacks in 2018, stating that evasive maneuver from the legal regime have been the bane in the fight against oil theft prosecution. Director of Training and Operation, Rear Admiral Mackson Makonju Kadiri stated while delivering 2018 scorecard of the Nigerian Navy at […]

FG Patronizes Indigenous firm to Stem Malnutrition

In line with the Federal Government’s commitment to encourage local manufacturers in Nigeria according to the Public Private Partnership (PPP) initiative, the Federal Ministry of Health has endorsed a new Ready To Use Food (RUTF); a product, manufactured by ERISCO FOODS LIMITED, a subsidiary of Erisco Bonpet Group. Speaking at the official presentation of the […]

FIRS Goes After 85,000 Wealthy Tax Defaulters … Generates N23 billion from 45,000

The Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Tunde Fowler has said that the Service, in collaboration with other stakeholders like the Nigeria Police Force, will continue to go after wealthy tax defaulters in 2019. Fowler, who said this  in Abuja when the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar Adamu paid a courtesy visit to […]

Police Decries Rampant Acts of Jungle Justice

The Inspector General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, has expressed deep concerns over increasing acts of impunity and jungle justice and all manner of dehumanising treatment meted out to Nigerians by unscrupulous persons. The IGP who is appalled with the recently publicized incident in the social media portraying the unsavoury debasement and incalculable assault on […]

More Women And Girls Needed In The Sciences To Solve World’s Biggest Challenges

Globally, while more girls are attending school than before, girls are significantly under-represented in STEM subjects in many settings and they appear to lose interest in STEM subjects as they reach adolescence. Many of the world’s biggest problems may be going unsolved because too many women and girls are being discouraged from the sciences. The […]