Former Director-General of the Security and Exchange Commission Arunma Oteh has been elected the new chair of The Royal African Society. Ms Oteh, previously the Treasurer and Vice President of the World Bank will be taking over from journalist and broadcaster, Zeinab Badawi. Ms Oteh tweeted: “Delighted to join as Chair of @royafrisoc, an organisation that has…
Former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party {PDP) in the 2019 Presidential election Atiku Abubakar has called on the Federal and state governments in Nigeria to to set a food security task force to provide security for the Nations farmers. The former Vice President who spoke recently with newsmen said ‘What…
Former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 Presidential election Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has started consultations accross the country for his 2023 Presidential ambition. The consultations started on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, where the Presidential hopeful met with the Rivers state governor Barrister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike at the…
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has pledged to collaborate with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICAN, in providing professional training for students from the Niger Delta region. Speaking during a courtesy visit by a delegation of the Governing Council of ICAN, at the NDDC new headquarters in Port Harcourt, the Commission’s Interim…
The National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has dragged the former Edo state Commissioner for Information, Prince Kassim Afegbus to a Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court Abuja claiming N5b among others for libelous publications against him. In the case Prince Secondus is claiming that the allegation by Prince Afegbua…
The trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, resumed at the Federal High Court Abuja on Monday without Kanu’s presence in court. When the matter was called up, the prosecution counsel, M. B. Abubakar, informed the court that the matter was slated for hearing and that they were ready to…
President Muhammadu Buhari will today Monday July 26, 2021, travel to the United Kingdom to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025. Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity),Mr. Femi Adesina disclosed this in a press release Monday morning. According to Adesina, the Summit, which will be co-hosted by…
Nigerian Government is assembling critical evidences to charge self-appointed Yoruba secessionist leader, Sunday Igboho to court for treasonable felony punishable with death. He was arrested and is being detained by the government of the Benin Republic. Sources in the picture of the goings on hinted that among the critical pieces of evidence so far assembled…
The Director-General, World Trade Organisation, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said that the global trade agency was working to facilitate trade and investments in Nigeria. Okonjo-Iweala spoke from Geneva at the 2021 National Diaspora Day webinar with the theme, ‘Diaspora Integration for National Peace and Development’, moderated by the Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa,…
A staff of Access Bank Mrs Confidence Nwabuokei has petitioned the bank Management over unlawful detention and treatment meted out to her in her branch office in Asaba, Delta state Capital. In her petition letter addressed to the Managing Director of the bank Herbert Wigwe by her lawyers Water Tight Attorney’s, titled UNLAWFUL DETENTION, CHARACTER…
