A Fulani socio-cultural group, Kulen Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria, (KACRAN), has tasked presidential candidates to fully incorporate livestock development in their policies and programs or risk losing their bloc votes in the forthcoming general elections. KACRAN’s National President, Hon. Khalil Mohd Bello gave the charge in a statement issued on Tuesday in Damaturu. The Association observed with dismay ...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, has said that its financial sector portfolio in Nigeria is currently valued at $1.3 billion of which the figure represents 30% of the bank’s portfolio. This was made known by the Director-General, Nigeria Country department of AFDB, Mr. Kanin Barrow on Monday in Abuja at the signing of a $460,000 agreement with the Securities ...

  The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has said thousands of uncleared imported vehicles in Lagos State may be auctioned if the owners fail to comply with the newly introduced Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) valuation policy NCS Area Comptroller of Ports Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML), Festus Oyedele Okun, put the number of the vehicles manufactured before 2013 at 7,000. “We have ...

Mojec International Ltd., the leading meter manufacturer in sub-Saharan Africa has successfully delivered on its meter allocation across the Distribution companies in Nigeria. This feat was achieved under the Federal Government initiated National Mass Metering Programme. The National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP), was introduced by the Federal Government to provide prepaid meters for customers and ease the financial burden associated ...

Kemi Nelson, an All Progressives Women leader and member, Governance Advisory Council, is dead. The former Executive Director of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund who passed on at 66, was said to have been unwell for a while. She had undergone treatments at different hospitals for undisclosed ailments.   The deceased politician is survived by her three children

Senator Ademola Adeleke, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has officially been declared the winner of the Saturday’s Osun State governorship election. Adeleke won 17 of the 30 Local Government Areas (LGAs) while the incumbent Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) won in the remaining 13 LGAs. Declaring the winner, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, the ...

Senator Ademola Adeleke, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is taking an early lead in the ongoing Osun gubernatorial election.   According to results posted on the portal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Adeleke is leading the incumbent governor, Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC), with over 10,000 votes. So far, Adeleke has ...

First City Monument Bank led by Yemisi Edun is in the bad books of customers who are frustrated over its epileptic services. “This is not the first time FCMB users would complain of service downtime but the bank has refused to upgrade and it’s really sad”, said Osas a customer of the bank. FCMB is the brainchild of Otunba Subomi ...

Funke Akindele, an award-winning actress and deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos, has boasted that her followers on social media, numbering over 20 million, will come out en masse to vote for the party in 2023. Ms Akindele was convicted and sentenced in 2020 for violating Lagos COVID-19 protocols but was granted a pardon by Governor ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court on Thursday declared the suspension of Twitter operations in June 2021 as unlawful and ordered the Nigerian Government not to give a similar order again.   This judgment was given in a suit filed by Chief Malcolm Emokiniovo Omirhobo, challenging the ban as a violation of his fundamental rights to freedom ...