Its another feather of accomplishment landing for Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc as the general insurer is awarded the ‘Insurance company of the decade’ over the weekend in Lagos.  

The Red Cross in Jos, the Plateau state capital said a good number of people have responded to the call to donate blood for victims of the recent crisis in Jos, Plateau State. The Secretary of the humanitarian organization at the north central transfusion centre located within the premises of the Plateau state specialist hospital, […]

The “Nigeria at 60” Jubilee Special Award ceremony has been postponed indefinitely by the Federal Government. Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo, made this known in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Ifedayo Sayo, saying that the Nigeria @ 60 Award ceremony, was planned as part of Jubilee celebrations of Nigeria’s […]

Following  recent attacks and killings in Jos and in line with his administration’s commitment to safety and security of Lagosians, Lagos State Governor,  Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has evacuated a three-week-old baby, the mother and undergraduate students of Lagos extraction at the University of Jos (UNIJOS), Plateau State. The first set of evacuees, comprising 64 UNIJOS students and […]

  Winifred Bosa UNICEF  said it was relieved that 91 students of Salihu Tanko Islamiya School Tegina, in Niger State, abducted three months ago, have been freed from captivity , however, the organization condemned the death of one child who died while held by his abductors. As was contained in a press release by UNICEF […]

Nigeria has maintained her position as Africa’s biggest economy after South Africa released the report of its rebased Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that pushed the latter’s economy up by 11 per cent, an analysis of a new report by Statistics South Africa (SSA), has revealed. After a comprehensive overhaul of its national accounts up to […]

Hurricane Ida battered Cuba with roof-ripping force on Friday as it churned toward a weekend US landfall along the Louisiana coast, prompting evacuations of flood-prone New Orleans By late on Friday, Ida was packing sustained winds of up to 80 miles per hour (129 kph), according to the National Weather Service, which expected the storm […]

U.S. forces are in the final phase of leaving Kabul, ending two decades of involvement in Afghanistan, and just over 1,000 civilians at the airport remain to be flown out before troops withdraw, a Western security official said on Sunday. The country’s new Taliban rulers are prepared to take control of the airport, said an […]

Winifred Bosa The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court in Lagos “to compel the Federal Government to disclose details of proposed payments of N729bn to 24.3 million poor Nigerians, including the mechanisms and logistics for the payments, list of beneficiaries, and how they have been selected, […]

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has recovered N53 billion from a real estate developer for the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN). According to a press release signed by Azuka Ogugua,  Spokesperson, ICPC, Chairman of ICPC, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye who made the disclosure during a meeting with the House of Representatives Ad-hoc […]