The Orji Uzor Kalu Foundation, OUK Foundation, a non-profit organisation, has taken its zero-interest loan scheme for petty traders to Aba North and Aba South Local Government areas of Abia State.
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Aloku Amaebi, the President of Federation of Public Service Games, says the emergence of the federation’s new National Executive Committee is a new dawn for the games.
The First Vice President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Seyi Akinwunmi, has called on private sector players to be more supportive of the development of youth sports, explaining that their contribution would boost national sports, reduce crime rate and increase brand loyalty.
A group, League of Young Professionals, has chided one of the aides of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, for his unabated attack on the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Malam Garba Shehu.
Oil workers, under the auspices of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, have called on governments at all level to increase their efforts at reducing poverty in the country.
The Action Democratic Party, ADP, has declared its preparedness to dislodge the ruling All Progressives Congress from its firm hold of the South West region and many other states across the country, pointing out that the series of defection from the APC leaves the ruling party at a disadvantage.
Residents of Akoka community in Lagos State have praised the management of Total Service Station in Akoka for taking swift action in restoring sanity to the community after a fuel leakage was discovered in the station’s underground tank last year.
The Nigerian Boxing Board of Control has sanctioned the international boxing championship between Nigerian Germany-based Alex Rudd Ekhorowa and Lebanese Mohammed Ali to be held in Benin, Edo.
Google on Thursday hosted its second Google for Nigeria event where it made a number of big announcements aimed at helping more people in Nigeria, and across Africa, benefit from the opportunities the web has to offer.
The President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation has described as fake news speculations that its Director-General, Rotimi Amechi, disparaged the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole.
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the Isi Ala 1 of Isieketa Ancient Kingdom, His Majesty Eze Nelson Nmerengwa, who turns 60 years on July 27.
Two senators, Abdullahi Danbaba and Isa Hama Misau, from Sokoto and Bauchi States, have condemned the statements credited online to their colleague, Adamu Abdullahi (Nasarawa), in which the latter claimed the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, “merely collated the list of senators he feels are not happy with the APC) and announced them as Defectors”.
US President, Donald Trump, accused Twitter on Thursday of restricting the visibility of prominent Republicans on its platform, and promised to investigate.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has thanked APC members and supporters in Kwara for their unflinching support to the party despite gale of defection in the National Assembly.
Iran’s Quds force chief, Qassem Soleimani, warned US President, Donald
Ubachukwu, the leader of Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Group of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, disclosed this on Thursday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.
The operators, mainly Nigerians resident in Madinah, transact their businesses in secret as they approach pilgrims in their hotels in groups or individually to introduce the business deal.
A search and rescue team located the small, twin engine aircraft on Thursday morning 6km from the airport in the southern city of Ayolas, where the plane took off en route to capital Asuncion, Luis Aguirre, head of the National Civil Aviation Directorate told Reuters.
Senior Magistrate, Sulyman Abdullah, adjourned the case at Thursday’s adjourned sitting for commencement of trial as the prosecution could not open its case due to absence of its lead counsel, Dr Alex Izinyon.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission fixed August 11 for the bye-election after the National Assembly having declared the seat vacant, following the demise of Jibril on March 30.