Entry Opens for Elumelu Foundation’s $5,000 grant
Entries have opened for the Tony Elumelu Foundation’s 2022 Entrepreneurship Programme, which gives opportunities to entrepreneurs from the 54 African countries to apply for $5,000 seed capital. Such applicants are…
Speed up Solid Minerals Development in Nigeria, Buhari Orders Agency
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday gave marching orders to the Presidential Artisanal Gold Mining Development Initiative, to provide a six-month progress report on the Solid Minerals Development Fund, designed to…
New bill prescribes jail term for failure to remit 1% of profit to NYSC Fund
A new bill in the House of Representatives, the National Youth Service Corps Trust Fund (Establishment) Bill 2021, has proposed a fine of N2m or a jail term of one…
Malami explains Why Buhari will not sign New electoral law
The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has the excessive cost implications of the new electoral law as one of the reasons why President Muhammadu…
Uche Nwosu Regains Freedom, After Dramatic Arrest
Uche Nwosu, the son-in-law of former Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha, who was arrested at his village church on Sunday and whisked away, has regained his freedom. A statement issued…
Okorocha tackles Uzodinma Over Uche Nwosu’s Arrest
The rusty relationship between former Imo State governor and current Senator, Rochas Okorocha, and the incumbent governor, Hope Uzodinma, has fallen to a new low as both trade tackles over…
Nigerian Amy Chief Orders Release of ‘Romantic’ Female Soldier
Reprieve came on Christmas day the way of the female soldier who was arrested and detained after online videos showed her in a romantic relationship with a male Corps member…
FG dismisses threats of attacks on Abuja, says FCT safe
Nigeria on Friday dismissed reports of an impending foreign terror attack on Abuja the capital city, declaring as false the media accounts about the plan. These were declared by the…
Afenifere to Buhari: Declare bandits as terrorists, stop treating them kids’ gloves
Afenifere, the Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, on Friday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to declare bandits as terrorists and stop treating them with kids’ gloves. The call comes one month after Justice…
Fire from vandalised pipeline destroys Lagos transmission line, as Electric Power towers collapse
A fire outbreak from a vandalsed oil pipeline in Lagos on Friday led to the collapse of five electric power towers, the Transmission Company of Nigeria said. The incident took…