Jaiz Bank PLC has secured a N3 billion facility from the Bank of Industry (BOI) to boost, develop and expand Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the country. The funds would be lend to small business operators to grow ...
Read More »University teachers undermined 2019 elections, says former INEC Chair Jega
Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Muhammadu Jega, yesterday critisised university lecturers for allegedly conniving with politicians to undermine the integrity and outcome of the 2019 general elections. He regretted that the dons facilitated the faulty recruitment ...
Read More »INEC alone can’t prosecute electoral offenders, ICPC insists
Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC), Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, has insisted that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) cannot prosecute electoral offenders alone. He stated this yesterday in Keffi, Nasarawa State at the National ...
Read More »Groups urge police to disarm Kogi youths as NUJ flays roadblocks
Two groups, Save Kogi Movement (SKM), and Idah Club 6575, have called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, to retrieve arms illegally possessed by youths in the state. In separate appeals yesterday in Lokoja, they claimed that ...
Read More »Taraba, Benue states deputy governors move to end Tiv/Jukun crisis
At last, the much-desired peace between the Tiv and the Jukun, which Governors Darius Ishaku of Taraba State and Samuel Ortom of Benue failed to achieve before leaving the country for holidays, is about being realised by their deputies. Deputy ...
Read More »Wike receives certificate of return, decries army, FSARS’s role in Rivers elections
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike yesterday decried attempt by some military and Federal Special Anti-robbery Squad (F-SARS) personnel to subvert the March 9 gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections in the state. He said it was regrettable that a FSARS ...
Read More »Reps reject forensic audit bill, passes six others, to probe fish importation licenses
The House of Representatives yesterday rejected the Bill for an Act to Establish the Chartered Institute of Forensic and Investigative Auditors of Nigeria (CIFIAN). If passed into law, the institute would handle for effective regulation, registration of members and determination ...
Read More »APC youths reject NWC’s micro zoning of N’Assembly leadership
All zonal and state youth leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) rose from an emergency meeting yesterday in Abuja in serious condemnation of the zoning arrangement adopted by the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) particularly in respect of the ...
Read More »Abuja residents shut N’Assembly entrances over alleged military killing
Members of the Coalition of Indigenous Communities of Abuja (CICA) yesterday laid siege to the gates of National Assembly causing a major gridlock at the main entrance. They also blocked the villa gate and gate to office of Secretary to ...
Read More »TASCE loses 49 employees to hunger, illnesses, says union chairman
Workers of Tai Solarin College of Education (TASCE), Omu-Ijebu, Ogun State, yesterday protested against alleged non-payment of 30 months salaries and 48 months of salary-increment arrears by the state government. The staff members, who protested at the Nigerian Union of ...
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