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BY STEPHANIE FAIRYINGTON The author of three explosive New York Times reports shares what most surprised her – and what we should all keep in mind. The headlines in The New York Times recently read like a clarion call to the nation to take heed of the impact screens are …

An advice has gone to the Nigerian youths not to limit their dreams in life, saying that there are no limits to what they can achieve in their future careers. Mrs Ibukun Awosika, the Chairman of First Bank Plc, gave this advice while delivering her keynote address at the 35th …

BY OMACHI ISAAC ACHOR As the Nigerian political space opens up for proper campaign and rally across the nation, us in the Dr. Victor Alewo Adoji campaign organization are not only ready to start engaging the electorates, but are heavily ready to start making the facts obvious to the electorates. …

Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has warned Nigerians against allowing people he called ‘hooligans in politics’ to get into power as it is detrimental to the country’s democracy. He said this while speaking at the book launch of another former president, Goodluck Jonathan, titled “My Transition Hours”, in Abuja on Tuesday, …

An ex-minister who served under Goodluck Jonathan’s cabinet has alleged that the former President had plans in place to obtain a court order to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from announcing the result of the 2015 presidential election. Jonathan has been celebrated in Nigeria and across the globe …

Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, was heckled, booed and forced to sink into his chair in agony, by an angry Abuja audience on Thursday, November 22, 2018. The event was a town hall meeting/presidential debate organised by the Osasu Show Symposium in Abuja. Daily Post reports that President Buhari, who was …

President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned Service Chiefs to an emergency security meeting over the reported killing of some Nigerian soldiers by Boko Haram sect along the Nigeria-Chad border on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reliably gathered that the urgent meeting was necessitated by the latest security developments across …

First Bank of Nigeria Plc recently launched a WhatsApp application to make banking more convenient for its 12.5 million customers. The FirstBank Chat Banking on WhatsApp was launched at the bank’s Digital Lab, Yaba, Lagos. The bank’s Managing Director, Dr Adesola Adeduntan, said at the launch that, as a leading …

In continuation of its Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CR&S) initiatives with a view to empowers individuals and the society, and to reduce the prevalence of blindness and visual impairment in the country, First Bank Plc has conducted free eye screenings for residents of the Old People’s Home, Yaba and students …

BY ISMAIL USMAN The United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has declared Osun the leading state in the provision of Social Protection programmes, commending Governor Rauf Aregbesola for his commitment to social, educational and economic development of the state. Nigeria’s representative of UNICEF, Mr. Mohammed Fall said the various …