The Youth Initiative Against Violence and Human Rights Abuse (YIAVHA), a non-governmental organisation, has urged the national assembly to speedily pass the “not too young to run” bill into law. During an interview with NAN in Jos on Tuesday, Pwakim…
The Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) says it will provide 900,000 jobs and support 100,000 medium scale enterprises in the state between now and 2019. Executive Secretary of the Fund, Akintunde Oyebode, who disclosed this ahead of the Fund’s…
The IBA FOUNDATION extended their fight against malaria to Ajegunle , a surburb, and a ghetto in Lagos on the 22nd of April in commemoration with the World Malaria Day 2017 theming the advocacy #KickOutMalaria. The programme started with education…
The Octagon Nigeria, an NGO on Saturday said it had given scholarship of N1 million to children of widows in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun. Mr Olatunji Egbewunmi, the founder of NGO, disclosed this at the 3rd Anniversary Lecture/Award…
Some entertainers in Nigeria’s Nollywood and the music industries were on Friday excited about the soon-to-be-aired Agriculture Reality TV Show by the International Institute of Research (IITA) and Corporate Farmers International (CFIL). Some of the actors, who spoke with the…
The Nigerian authorities must immediately scrap plans to execute death row inmates in Kirikiri prison in Lagos, Amnesty International said today amid macabre reports from inmates that the prison’s gallows were being prepared and one inmate had been isolated possibly…
The government of the state of Osun in a bold move to increase its internally generated revenue and recoup over N30bn tax owed by several organisation, has streamlined the Osun Internal Revenue Service, OIRS, with the reformation of the organizational…
MTN Nigeria has told its subscribers not to pay more than the amount printed on any of their recharge cards. The telecommunication’s Public Relations and Protocol Manager, Mr Funso Aina, said in a statement on Friday in Lagos that MTN…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has suspended its earlier directive on the implementation of cashless policy till further notice. The apex bank in a circular released on Friday, instructed banks to revert to old charges as deposit processing fee…
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai a UN Messenger of Peace on Monday (April 10 2017) to promote girls education, more than four years after a Taliban gunman shot her in the head on her school…
