The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has extended the registration period for the 2025 Batch ‘C’ Prospective Corps Members (PCMs) till midnight of November 11. In a statement on Saturday in Abuja, the Director, Information and Public Relations, Caroline Embu, said the registration deadline was extended to enable Prospective[Read More…]
Polaris Bank has launched the Adopt a Survivor Breast Cancer Support Initiative, a social impact programme aimed at empowering breast cancer survivors to rebuild their lives and livelihoods after treatment. While October is globally known for breast cancer awareness, Polaris Bank is extended focus to the recovery[Read More…]
First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank), Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider, has announced the launch of the Verve Flash Promo, a special initiative rewarding customers with free Verve cards. The campaign, which commenced on 6 October 2025, and will run until 30 January[Read More…]
An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) witness, Chinelo Eneanya, on Thursday told an Abuja high court, that former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele’s naira notes redesign brought economic hardship to Nigerians. Eneanya, an investigator with the EFCC was the seventh prosecution witness (PW7) in Emefiele‘s trial[Read More…]
The Senate on Wednesday screened and confirmed the appointment of new Service Chiefs, nominated by President Bola Tinubu. The new service chiefs confirmed are Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Olufemi Oluyede, Chief of Army Staff, Maj.-Gen Waheed Shaibu, Chief of Air Staff, AVM Kennedy Aneke and Chief of[Read More…]
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, says the Federal Government will fully support Dangote Refinery in achieving its 1.4 million barrels-per-day refined products target. Lokpobiri said this on Monday in Lagos during his welcome address at the 19th Africa Downstream Energy Week. The theme of the event[Read More…]
Polaris Bank has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) and driving economic growth in Nigeria’s South-South region with the commissioning of the new ‘Everyday Supermarket’ Yenagoa Store. The grand opening, which took place yesterday at Bay Bridge Junction on the Kpansia-Epie Expressway, Bayelsa State[Read More…]
The new Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Joash Amupitan, on Thursday assumed office at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja. Amupitan arrived at about 2:40 p.m. in the company with the Acting Chairman, Mrs May Agbamuche-Mbu, national commissioners and the secretary to the commission, shortly after[Read More…]
The House of Representatives at plenary on Tuesday, approved the establishment of four Federal Universities in Borno, Imo, Kaduna and Kano states to enhance learning in the country. This followed the adoption of reports on four bills, laid for consideration by the Chairman, House Committee on University Education, Rep.[Read More…]
…with Agriculture Summit Africa 2025 Africa’s agricultural rebirth gathers momentum as Agriculture Summit Africa (ASA) 2025, the continent’s foremost platform for advancing sustainable and inclusive agricultural transformation, returns under the bold theme ‘Survival of the Greenest: Reclaiming Africa’s Food Destiny’. Scheduled for November 6–7, 2025, at the[Read More…]
