The embattled Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen, who over the past three months had been facing corruption charges, resigned his appointment with immediate effect on Friday. Onnoghen, who has been in the ‘eyes of the anti-corruption storm’ over the past months reportedly turned in his resignation letter to President Muhammadu Buhari late […]
Boeing has issued changes to control systems linked to two fatal crashes of its 737 Max planes in the past five months. However, the U.S aircraft manufacturing company did not give go ahead to operators to resume flight with the aircraft which were grounded by many countries’ aviation authorities following the fatal crashes. A news […]
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) on Friday stated that it was set to begin the enrolment of Nigerian adults and children in South Africa into the National Identity Database (NIDB) for the issuance of the National Identification Number (NIN). Specifically, it hinted that the South Africa NIN enrolment exercise scheduled to hold at 205 […]
Guinness Nigeria Plc, a subsidiary of Diageo, has entered into strategic partnership with WaterAid with the ultimate goal of ensuring sustainable access to water, sanitation and hygiene, while helping people take action to improve their health and well-being. The partnership has the Guinness Nigeria ‘Water of Life’ programme and WaterAid Nigeria working with the Kebbi […]
Nigeria was reported to have scored 47.9 in overall governance, ranking 33rd out of 54 African countries covered in the 2018 Ibrahim Index of African Governance. Published by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, the 2018 Index of African Governance was launched during a live event on Monday. According to the report, though Nigeria improved in ranking […]
London, New York, Tokyo and Paris were on Tuesday rated as world’s most comprehensively attractive cities among the 44 covered in the Global Power City Index, GPCI, 2018 report published by The Mori Memorial Foundation’s Institute for Urban Strategies. The Institute, is a research body established by Mori Building, a leading urban developer in Tokyo. […]
The Federal Government today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the African Risk Capacity (ARC)to work together to address the impact of extreme weather events in Nigeria, including training support to government personnel. The signing ceremony, which happened on the margins of the Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Busan, South […]
The President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has canvassed the need for all stakeholders across African countries to support the bank’s vision on Africa’s climate risk financing. The AfDB boss gave the charge Wednesday during a high-level session of the 53rd African Development Bank Group Annual Meetings held with the bank’s Board […]
The former Head of the National Human Rights Commission, Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, has alleged that the military is under-reporting the number of casualties being recorded in the ongoing war against insurgents. Odinkalu, said this at the media briefing by the Coordinating Committee on the National Day of Mourning in Abuja. May 2018 was set aside […]
MTI Network, the world’s leading Reputation Management/Incident Response Network dedicated to serving shipping, energy, offshore and transportation industries around the world, has announced the appointment of CFO & Associates Limited, a Public Relations company based in Lagos, as it’s Nigerian partner. CFO & Associates is a results-oriented, independently owned Public Relations firm established by Charles […]