President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja lauded the entrepreneurial spirit and doggedness of the President of Dangote Industries Limited (DIL), Aliko Dangote and urged Nigerians in business to emulate this iconic figure, to enable the country to witness real economic growth and development. While receiving the President of DIL and Board members of Dangote Group at the Presidential Villa, ...

“If Nigeria is not urgently rescued from the dangerous path she appears to be inexorably marching towards, we may not be able to contain the inevitable implosion, which all patriotic Nigerians, including all of you gathered here and my humble self,  pray against every day.” The above were the words of frontline presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ...

By Raymond Ozoji, Awka The Special Adviser to Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo on Youth Empowerment Programmes Dr. Nelson Omenugha has said that the state government will in no distant time begin to roll out sustainable empowerment programmes for youths in Anambra state to enable them to acquire requisite lifelong skills. Omenugha, who stated this during an exclusive interview with our ...

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Friday said his administration will continue to work with security formations in the State for Lagos to remain the most peaceful, safe, secure and enterprising state for the citizens and foreigners. Governor Sanwo-Olu made the statement when the General Officer Commanding GOC), 81 Division of Nigerian Army, Major General Umar Musa; Air Officer ...

Top Yoruba monarch, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, has passed on. PREMIUM TIMES reported that Alaafin Adeyemi, the third from the Alowodu Ruling House, died in the late hours of Friday at the Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti State in South-West Nigeria. The remains of the top Yoruba traditional ruler were brought to ...

Nigeria needs leaders who deeply care about the common man and the progress of the nation, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Prof. Osinbajo stated this on Friday in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, when he paid a courtesy call at the palace of His Imperial Majesty, the Olubadan of Ibadan, Dr. Sen. Lekan Balogun Ali-Iwo Okunmade II, ahead of ...

A presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Peter Obi, has said he will initiate policies and programmes that will transform Nigeria from a “consumption economy to productive one”. Obi said this on Thursday, when he came for consultation with Abia PDP chieftains at the state Secretariat in Umuahia. He said that the nation had abundant resources waiting ...

Vestergaard, manufacturers of PermaNet ® mosquito nets, and Goodbye Malaria, an African run initiative to eliminate malaria in Southern Africa, have partnered with the Mozambican Ministry of Health to mark World Malaria Day 2022 on 25 April 2022. The partners will be hosting a plenary session at Polana Serena, Maputo. The event provides a platform to renew the power of ...

By Raymond Ozoji, Awka “My name is Ngini Ifechukwu Benjamin and I am 13 years old. I returned from police cell this week Monday. I don’t know why the police arrested me. I just came back from school last two weeks Tuesday and on Wednesday by 3 am in the wee hours of the morning they just came and took ...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited (SNEPCo), today, inaugurated a state-of-the-art Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Centre at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, in Delta State. The 100-seater one-storey building was built and equipped by the NNPC and SNEPCo partnership to promote research, teaching and learning in a conducive environment. ...