The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, said on Thursday that only one million out of the 3.6 million applicants for the Presidential Conditional Grant Scheme will be beneficiaries. The scheme, which started March 9, 2024, offers financial grants of N50,000 without repayment obligations to eligible small business owners operating in…
Sophia Nkwor, a 24-years-old woman, has allegedly killed her one-year old son in a well at Araya community, Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State. According to Delta State Police Command who paraded the suspect on Thursday, May 2, Sofia Nkwo, without mercy, drowned her one-year-old son. The woman said she killed her son because…
President Tinubu has been wooing foreign investors with a promise of high returns on investment. Saad Sherida al-Kaabi, the CEO of QatarEnergy, has turned down the proposal to invest in Nigeria despite the recent visit by President Bola Tinubu to the Middle Eastern country to seek foreign investment. President Tinubu has been wooing foreign investors…
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, announced a groundbreaking partnership with Hassan Allam Holding and Punz Limited to construct a 200-Room Marriott Hotel in Owerri. Facilitated by a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model, the project is set to be completed within an impressive 24-month timeframe. This ambitious endeavor receives substantial financial backing from renowned institutions such as…
…..Urges Parents To Be Calm With Their Wards Nigerian actress, Real Warri Pikin has sent a message to parents on how to treat their children who didn’t do well in the recently released JAMB results. The actress said she’s speaking from a personal experience after writing JAMB three times. About 76 percent of applicants had…
Nigeria’s Commissioner of Police (CP), Ifeanyi Uche, has emerged chairman, INTERPOL’s African Heads Of Cybercrime Units. CP Uche emerged after a week-long meeting of the cybercrime heads across the world in Abuja on Friday. While delivering his speech, the Commissioner of Police said: “Cybercrime poses a significant threat to our societies, economies, and security, and…
Pope Francis Appoints Most Rev. Simeon Okezuo Nwobi, C.m.f. As Substantive Bishop Of Ahiara Diocese The Holy Father has appointed as Bishop of the Diocese of Ahiara (Nigeria) H.E. Monsignor Simeon Okezuo Nwobi, C.M.F., currently titular Bishop of Rusgunie and Auxiliary to the Apostolic Administrator sede vacante of Ahiara. Bishop Simeon Okezuo Nwobi, C.M.F., was…
The APC National Vice Chairman of South East, Dr. Ijeomah Arodiogbu, has disclosed that without President Ahmed Bola Tinubu Nigeria’s Economy would have been worse. He affirmed that the President, Governors and other APC Stakeholders are working effortlessly and in tandem to revive the economy in order to enhance good living, peace and security. Arodiogbu…
A group of suspected repentant Boko Haram fighters, on Wednesday invaded the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the Nigeria Customs Service checkpoints at Kasuwan Fara, a suburb of Maiduguri metropolis, chasing away the operatives on duty and setting on fire all structures at the checkpoints. This was disclosed by security analyst and counter…
A graduate of Chemistry from the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka Anambra State, Juliet Chidiebube Uka, has scored 324 in the just concluded 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. Uka was the best-graduating student in the Department of Chemistry at UNIZIK in 2021, graduating with a first class. She said she sat for the 2024 UTME to…
