Some experts on Thursday advocated collaboration between the academia and the industry as a way of ensuring a robust national economy and reducing unemployment in Nigeria. The experts made the advocacy at the maiden edition of the Industry-Academia Collaboration Lecture…
To boost Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs), Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the Federal Government will soon establish People Money and Entrepreneurship Banks. Osinbajo disclosed this while speaking with newsmen during a visit to Bodija and Oje markets in…
Nigerian Government on Thursday commenced a National Campaign to end open defecation practice across the country. The campaign comes on the heels of a recent report indicting Nigeria as the second worse country in the world after India that still…
The Kano State Pilgrims Welfare Board, has begun the collection of N1.2 million from prospective pilgrims as initial deposit for the 2019 hajj fare. The Executive Secretary of the board, Alhaji Muhammad Abba-Danbatta, made this disclosure while briefing newsmen in…
The United Nations (UN) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (COHA) has spent 70 million dollars in providing humanitarian assistance in the north-eastern states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe. The agency says over seven million people in the region…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other-Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Wednesday said it would probe the allegation of corruption leveled against the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, during the recently concluded party primaries. The spokesperson…
A fresh batch of 116 Stranded Nigerians returned to the country from Libya on Wednesday. The returnees who had tried to proceed to Europe en-route Libya were repatriated from the North African country by International Organisation for Migration (IOM). While…