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The European Union (EU) Delegation to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has awarded university scholarship to 40 Nigerian students. This is in furtherance of the ERASMUS+ programme for higher education and it offers opportunities to ...

New Consul-General of the United States (U.S.) Consulate in Lagos, Ms. Claire Pierangelo yesterday promised to collaborate with the Lagos State government on areas of mutual interest. Speaking during a courtesy visit to Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Pierangelo said ...

Country Director, United Nations Information Centre (UNIC), Lagos, Roland Kayanja, has advocated the development of youth-centred policies to ensure their participation in the formulation and implementation of government’s policies. This, Kayanja said, will tackle youth restiveness, unemployment and enhance the ...

Head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Nigeria and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Ketil Karisen, has alerted the sub-region to the dangers of postponing political reforms. He stressed that such reforms were needed mostly after any ...

The new webometric ranking (July 2019 version 8.1.0 BETA), has ranked University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), as number one in Nigeria, 17 in Africa and 1,108 in the world. Tagged: Transparent Ranking: Top Universities by Citations in Top Google Scholar Profiles, and ...

United Kingdom (UK) Export Finance (UKEF), the export finance agency of the UK government, has confirmed that it has doubled the country’s limit for companies desiring to do business with Nigeria from £750m to £1.25b. UKEF has also entered into ...

Boris Johnson is today succeeding Theresa May as British Prime Minister after winning the two-horse race Conservatives (Tory) party leadership race with an overwhelming vote of 92,153 to defeat Jeremy Hunt, who polled 46,656 ballots. Johnson, who had been the ...

ActionAid Nigeria has launched a N2.6 billion Women’s Voice and Leadership Project to advance protection of women and girls’ rights to achieve gender equality in the country. This follows a United States Aid for International Development (USAID) report indicating that ...

Immediate past Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, John Nnia Nwodo; and Nigerian Ambassador to Germany, Yusuf Tuggar, are among special guests expected at the second Annual Igbo Cultural Festival and Convention in Nürnberg, Germany. Themed ...

The Parliament of the Economic Community of West Africans States (ECOWAS) has raised the alarm over the isolated treatment of the Malian impasse by member-states, warning that the rest nations in the sub-region were sitting on a keg powder on ...