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With the curtain down on 2021, Nigerian women operating in the tech industry have closed mouth-watering deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars, started new ventures and promoted the cause of gender equality. With just 22 per cent of the total number of engineering and technology university graduates each year in Nigeria, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), …

*APC no longer a political party, but election platform, ex-PGF DG laments Governors and top leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, are split over the presidential aspiration of the party’s National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. File: National Leader, All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu The division is affecting zoning of National Working Committee, NWC, and National …

A Federal High Court in Lagos has granted bail to a Nigerian-Canadian businessman, Edrian Ididia Osagie, held by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged N84 million fraud. Ruling on his bail application in suit number FHC/L/CS/1742/2021, Justice Daniel Osiagor held that the surety is to either provide a house which value is not less than N85 million …

The Central Bank of Nigeria has released a guide for bank customers and others on how and where they can lodge complaints against financial institutions regulated by it. The financial institutions include commercial banks, microfinance banks, primary mortgage institutions, and discount houses. The CBN noted that it had earlier issued a circular directing all banks to expand their existing ATM …

Progressives Youths within the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) met in Lagos at the weekend at a parley which had in attendance young business stakeholders, political aspirants, and other young stakeholders within the government and party system. The conference, tagged the “Pre-festival business meet”, was organised with a view to ensuring adequate representation of young people in the new leadership …

The Management of the Police Service Commission (PSC) says recruitment of police officers from the rank of Constables to Cadet Inspectors and Cadet Assistant Superintendents of Police (ASPs) are the Constitutional responsibilities of the commission. Ikechukwu Ani, the Head of Press and Public Relations of the commission, said this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. He said the clarification followed publications …

•Empowers Anambra APC members with materials for self-sustenance Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige has said he is making consultations with political leaders and would make his intentions on the 2023 presidency known by Easter. The minister who spoke at the Anambra office of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment in Awka at the weekend also distributed …

Washington D.C. – Tens of thousands of pro-life Americans from across the country recently attended the 2022 March for Life in Washington, D.C. As they flooded past the Supreme Court — the end point of the march — they were greeted by more than a half dozen women personally haunted by abortion. Each held up a sign, reading: “I Regret …

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Abuja, Nigeria – Market Traders Association of Nigeria (MATAN), a group in Abuja representing market women in the 36 states of Nigeria has said that it will collaborate with the Nigerian Women Trade Exhibition (NAWTE) to flag off the registration of 10million women traders in Nigeria for capacity building in 2022. Sameera Abubakar Abdullahi, Coordinator, told …

Ogun State Police Command has arrested the fleeing suspect who reportedly masterminded the killing of his girlfriend, Soliu Majekodunmi. According to the PUNCH, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in an update on the killing of a girl identified as Rofia by four teenagers in Abeokuta, said the leader of the gang has been arrested. Oyeyemi …