Wife of Lagos State Governor, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode (3rd left), presenting hair making equipments to a beneficiary, Mrs. Adenike Oyewola (2nd right) while the Commissioner for Women Affairs & Poverty Alleviation, Mrs. Lola Akanda (2nd left), her counterpart for Youth & Social Development, Pharm. (Mrs) Uzamat Akinbile-Yusuf (left) and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Women Affairs & Poverty Alleviation, Mrs. Abiola Liadi (right) watch …

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From Left:  HRM Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, the Ooni of Ife, meets U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria W. Stuart Symington during the traditional ruler’s courtesy call in Lagos recently.   Advertisement

The Federal Government has postponed for three months a trade conference meant to drum up badly-needed investment due to the temporary closure of its capital’s international airport, the organisers said on Friday. According to Reuters, the delay is the first sign that government and business activity will be impacted by the six-week closure of Abuja airport for runway repairs just …

The Central of Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said on Monday it will auction $100 million in forward contracts after selling the U.S. currency last week to boost dollar liquidity and help close the gap between the official and black market exchange rates. The bank sold $370 million in 60-day contracts last Monday while the result of another $230 million forward …

The police on Monday arraigned three commercial sex workers in a Karmo Grade 1 Area Court in Abuja for attacking and causing grievous hurt on colleagues. The defendants, Helen Gabriel, Joy Johnson and Ene Ahmed, all reside at Jabi Masallachi, Abuja, and are standing trial on two-count. The prosecutor, Zannah Dalhatu, told the court that Joy Opera and three others of …

An estranged wife, Sola Bamisile, 30, on Monday told an Ikole Ekiti Customary Court, that she could longer bear her husband strong sexual urge. The petitioner alleged that her husband, Bayo Bamisile, constantly beat her whenever she refused him sex. Sola told the court that within five and half years of their marriage she had given birth to four children. …

New Partnership for Africa Development says it will invest €38m in youth empowerment in five African countries in three years. The Director NEPAD Continental, Estherine Fotabong, disclosed this during a courtesy visit to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation on Monday in Abuja. She said that the project would focus on skill acquisition for the youths of the …

Olabode Adaramola Niger state government through the agricultural and mechanization development authority yesterday distributed 100 motorcycles to extension and corporative staff across the state under the Central Bank’s Anchor Borrowers Programme. The gesture, which was aimed at boosting the capacity of extension workers to moblise farmers in the on-going effort by state and federal government to reposition agriculture as the …

Executive Secretary Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Rev. Uja Tor Uja (r) in a warm handshake with the Head of Administration Mr. Danjuma Elabi during the inauguration of Training and Land Acquisition Committee at the Commission’s Corporate headquarters in Abuja, on Monday. Advertisement