The third annual Africa.com Definitive List of Women Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) was revealed on April 19. Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, Managing Director/CEO, Fidelity Bank Plc and Miriam Chidiebele Olusanya, Managing Director, Guaranty Trust Bank made the top 10 list. Both companies are listed on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX). The list is unique in that it is based on data-driven research. Sponsored by Standard Bank Group, it represents one of the first analyses of the performance of publicly listed companies in Africa conducted through a gender lens. This year’s list of 93 women represents 17 countries who have qualified based on…
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No fewer than 3,298 inmates across the custodial centres in Nigeria are on death row, the Nigerian Correctional Service has revealed. Its Public Relations Officer, Mr Abubakar Umar, who disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja, however, said the term “condemned criminal” had been abrogated. With the emergence of the NCoS Act 2019 which made the prisons correctional centres, the term “condemned criminal” was abrogated as it is stigmatising, he explained. He said that the service preferred to use a more friendly term of ‘Inmates on Death Row.’ Ogun Community Where Flood Sweeps Away Students…
The Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State is currently being gutted by fire. The fire, which was said to have started from the studio area, might have done a lot of damage to equipment in the studio. An informed station source said the state fire service had been invited and that efforts were ongoing to control the situation. Details later…
THE presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the February 25 election, Mr Peter Obi has said that he is not afraid of what he called lies and propaganda against him, describing them as part of the journey to a new Nigeria. “I have always lived my life in the most law-abiding manner possible. Sometimes, as humans, we make mistakes, but I will never knowingly break any law. “I am, therefore, not afraid of the lies and propaganda against my person, which are part of the journey to a New Nigeria,” Obi said at the National Executive Council, NEC,…
Afrobeats megastar Davido has paid a visit to the Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa, ahead of his much anticipated concert on Sunday. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Ben Hundeyin, in a tweet on Tuesday, noted that the visit was to finalise security arrangements for the event to be held at Tafawa Balewa Square on Lagos Island. “In preparation for his April 23 concert at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, @davido and team visited CP Idowu Owohunwa to perfect security arrangements,” Hundeyin posted on the microblogging site. “The CP assured him of the command’s total commitment to the security of Lagosians, even at…
The Federal Government has directed the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Isah Jere, to handover to the most senior officer in the Service. This is coming on the heels of several news report that CG Isah Jere Idris who was appointed in acting capacity just before his retirement in April 2022 has gotten another extension ahead of the expiration of his initial one year tenure extension which lapses on April 24, 2023. In a letter dated Monday 17th April, 2023, addressed to the Acting Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service and signed by the Secretary to the Civil…
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi State, Sen Dino Melaye, has said Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike is suffering from post-election trauma. Both have engaged in a face-off since Melaye showed an interest in becoming the PDP gubernatorial candidate, and Wike kicked against it. Rivers governor, during a media chat in Port Harcourt on April 11, had said the former Kogi senator did not possess the qualities required to become the governor. The former federal lawmaker, while reacting said Wike’s rift with him to was hinged on his failure to secure the party’s presidential ticket…
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