Amina Salihu
12 Mar
The Deputy Director of the Africa Office at the MacArthur Foundation, Dr. Amina Salihu, has raised concerns over the alarming rates of intimate partner violence in Nigeria, stating that one in three women experiences abuse at the hands of a spouse or partner. Salihu made this statement on Wednesday in an open letter marking International…
5 Dec
MacArthur Foundation has said over $200 billion has been lost in Nigeria between 1970 and 2008 to corruption and procurement irregularities. According to the foundation, the financial haemorrhage occurred through various channels, including inflated contracts, dubious asset disposals and outright theft of resources. The Deputy Director at MacArthur Foundation in Nigeria, Amina Salihu, made the…
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Former Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Dr. Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran, also known as JANDOR, has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). This was disclosed yesterday at a briefing, stating that his decision was driven by his desire to contribute to the progress of Lagos State and his belief that unity among…
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The Lagos State Government has slammed the member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Ushie Uguamaye, for stating that "Lagos is smelling." In a chat with our correspondent, the Director, Public Affairs of the Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, Kunle Adesina, stated that despite seeing Lagos as smelly, the corps…
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Former Nigerian President who ruled the country between 1999 and 2007, Olusegun Obasanjo, has criticised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's administration and labour union leaders over the minimum wage. In his recently published book titled “Nigeria: Past and Future”, Obasanjo described the minimum wage as poor and insufficient to meet the needs of the country's working…
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Thirteen decades after it first set up shop in Nigeria, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, inspired by its parent company (FirstHoldCo) chairman, Femi Otedola, has set the standard again as it commences the process of uprooting its corporate headquarters from Marina, the declining Wall Street of Nigeria, to Eko Atlantic City, the emerging elite financial…
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Christian Clerics and prominent members of the Kaduna State Chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) have commended Governor Uba Sani for making Kaduna State crisis-free. They made this known when Sani hosted them to Iftar/Lent Dinner at Sir Kashim Ibrahim House. They were led to the dinner by the Kaduna CAN Chairman, Rev.…
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The Niger State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education has re-opened the two secondary schools shut down as a result of an inter-school fight between Government Day Secondary School, Bosso Road, Minna, and Father O'Connell Science College, Minna, on Wednesday, 12th March 2025. According to a statement issued to newsmen in Minna over the weekend…
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ND Western has announced the completion of the acquisition of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) by Renaissance, a consortium comprising four leading Nigerian independent energy companies—ND Western Limited, Aradel Holdings Plc, FIRST Exploration and Petroleum Development Company Limited, Waltersmith Group—and an international energy company, Petrolin Group. The $2.4 billion landmark acquisition marks a significant milestone…
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The decomposed body of Yuda Garba, the Village Head of Dagachi Hamlet, who was kidnapped on March 11, has been discovered in a bush near Takula, Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Intelligence sources told Zagazola Makama that the villagers alerted authorities to the presence of a body in the Nomadic Forest near Kuyeri,…
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The European Union (EU) is supporting Nigeria's digital sector, which holds enormous potential to drive sustainable growth and development across the country, according to EU Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Gautier Mignot. The EU is facilitating Nigeria's digital transformation through investments in digital infrastructure, entrepreneurship, skills development, and e-governance, with plans to extend this support…
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A pair of US astronauts stuck for more than nine months on the International Space Station will be returned to Earth on Tuesday evening, NASA said. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are to be transported home with another American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon craft, which arrived at the ISS…