In a clear show of its resilience and market leadership, Zenith Bank has announced an impressive result for the year ended December 31, 2019, with profit after tax (PAT) of N208.8 billion, achieving the feat as the first Nigerian Bank to cross the N200 billion mark. According to the bank’s audited financial results for the […]Continue Reading
The World Bank on Wednesday (February 18, 2020) in Washington DC, the United States, approved Nigeria’s digital identity ecosystem project along with five others, aimed at assisting the country to empower citizens, especially marginalized groups, to access welfare-enhancing services. The National Digital Identity Ecosystem Project is focused on enhancing the national Continue Reading
The Christian Association of Nigeria has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to make good on his promise to ensure the release of Leah Sharibu and the Chibok girls who were captured on February 19, 2018. The call was made in a statement signed by Evangelist Kwamkur Samuel Vondip, Director, Legal and Public Affairs, CAN on […]Continue Reading
By Jonathan Rozen/CPJ Senior Africa Researcher As reporters for Nigeria’s Premium Times newspaper, Samuel Ogundipe and Azeezat Adedigba told CPJ they spoke often over the phone. They had no idea that their regular conversations about work and their personal lives were creating a record of their friendship. On August 9, 2018, Ogundipe published an article […]Continue Reading
The Boko Haram terrorist group rejected the ransom offered by the Federal Government to secure the release of Leah Sharibu, sources at the Presidency told Daily Trust yesterday. Sharibu, a schoolgirl, is the only Dapchi schoolgirl still held hostage out of the 110 kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist group from the Government Girls’ Science […]Continue Reading
By Edwin Madunagu Nigeria’s ruling class has presented the nation with a number of issues around which the Nigerian Left can build an agenda of political engagement for the year 2020, or which, to use an old journalistic expression, the Left can use as “pegs” to construct an agenda of close and integrated engagement with […]Continue Reading
The Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah has described President Buhari’s government as divisive and tribalistic. He made this remark during the funeral mass of seminarian Michael Nnadi at Good Shepherd Seminary Kaduna on Tuesday 12th February 2020. Recall that four seminarians were kidnapped on 13 January 2020 in Kaduna. Pius Kanwai, Peter […]Continue Reading
Senate President Ahmad Lawan says those employed for the nation’s security must be given targets and that they should be sacked if they do not meet the targets. Lawan spoke at plenary yesterday after the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance by Senator Kashim Shettima (Borno) urging the military authorities to establish a […]Continue Reading
The Senate has raised the alarm that national parks across the country have become safe havens for bandits, kidnappers and cattle rustlers. According to the Senate, the criminals come out to attack and return back there for safety. It called for the mainstreaming of the National Park Service into the nation’s security architecture in line […]Continue Reading
By Eric Teniola Since 2000 every President in Nigeria has been unfair to Ondo and Imo states in terms of appointments of chairman/Managing Director/Executive Director in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). It does not matter the quantum of oil produced in those two states as long as they are still members of the NNDC, […]Continue Reading
By Theophilus Abbah At the rate Boko Haram terrorists launch suicide attacks, lay siege on the military, kill helpless civilians, and kidnap the vulnerable in the North-East in spite of their sack from Sambisa Forest, it is apparent that the violent jihadi sect has been deflated but not conquered. Not even when the sect is […]Continue Reading
Boko Haram fighters on Sunday killed no fewer than 30 people who were travelers that spent the night in Auno, a community 25km away from Maiduguri. The attack which lasted for four-hours claimed many lives including that of a mother and an infant, who were reportedly burnt beyond recognition. According to multiple reports, 22 people […]Continue Reading