Afolabi Williams, team leader, OlubusiyiFamobiwo, MenashiMordi and OsagumwenroNaamanUgbo, members of Team Neon from Whitesands School, Lagos, have emerged as the 2018 Power Pitch Winner of the Smoke-Free World category of the Conrad Foundation Spirit of Innovation challenge summit held at the Kennedy Space Centre, Visitor Complex, Florida, USA. The four junior school students made it to the fourth round and ... Read More »

Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola on Tuesday warned that the Federal Government would not accept the 74 housing units and Jega-Yauri road project due to shoddy job. Fashola who inspected the two projects in Birnin Kebbi, told the contractors to undertake the project within specification otherwise the government would not accept them. He observed that most of ... Read More »

The national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday bowed to the aspiration of majority of the aspirants in aborted Ekiti governorship primary election by cancelling the aborted exercise and ordering that the exercise be conducted afresh. The party however insisted that the Governor Tanko AlMakura led committee will still be responsible for conducting the primary while the ... Read More »

Heritage Bank Plc says it is committed to the sustenance, growth and development of the nation’s agricultural sector. Mr Fela Ibidapo, Divisional Head of Corporate Communications, Heritage Bank, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos. Ibidapo said the bank was committed to leading the way in agricultural financing in the country. He said that the bank was currently ... Read More »

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission( EFCC) has traced 61 assets  to former Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Oceanic Bank Mrs. Cecilia Ibru in Dubai in its ongoing tracking of looted funds. The assets include 41 shops, 16 mansions and four park towers. All the properties have been confiscated, but their sale is trailed by controversy because about $4,522,413.20 remain ... Read More »

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has warned the heads of security agencies involved in the case of Senator Dino Melaye (Kogi), saying that nothing untowards must happen to the lawmaker. He said if anything happened to the senator, heads of security agencies involved would be held responsible. The Speaker, who was short of naming the security agency he ... Read More »

The chairman of DAAR communications, Raymond Dokpesi is saying the US has revoked his visa after he was accused of looting Nigeria’s treasury. Lai Mohammed, minister of information, had listed Dokpesi, among other chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as those who looted public funds. Dokpesi is currently standing trial for allegedly receiving N2.1 billion from the office of ... Read More »

Prominent leaders of the southern and Middle Belt parts of Nigeria are currently meeting with the Senate hierarchy. They include Chiefs Ayo Adebanjo, Edwin Clark, Obong Victor Attah, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, John Nwodo, and Mr. Yinka Odumakin Receiving them were President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki; Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and several other senators. A member of the delegation said ... Read More »

  As High-profile dignitaries and party rockers from different backgrounds stormed the third edition of Miss Tourism Ogun Pageantry, Fast rising act Adejola Abayomi Olanrewaju a.k.a ‘96’ thrilled the crowd with an off-the-hook performance of his hit single ‘money’. The Nigerian-born UK-Based Afro-pop singer is gradually taking his name to new heights with his grand entrance at annual Miss Tourism ... Read More »

The Presidency on Thursday gave reasons why President Muhammadu Buhari stopped over in London after his official visit to the United States. According to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and publicity, Garba Shehu, said that there is a limit to the distance the President’s smaller plane can cover. He explained that the Presidents big jet has gone for ... Read More »