First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced its commemoration of the 2022 International Youth Day, globally celebrated today, 12 August 2022 and themed “Intergenerational solidarity: Creating a World for All Ages.” The International Youth Day is commemorated every year on 12 August, bringing youth issues to the attention of the international community and celebrating the…
The desire of the youths to drive a revolution through their votes in 2023 election, has once more paid off with the election of 39 years old Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour as the governorship candidate of Labour Party in the substitution governorship election of the party, held on Wednesday 10th August, 2022. Gbadebo who evinced the…
In line with its vision of streamlining human resource functions and processes in the workplace, BridgeGap has launched 56 Bridge, a recruitment app which will revolutionise job applications, improve efficiency and reduce bottlenecks in the recruitment process for organizations. The 56 Bridge app, which was launched in Lagos on Tuesday, August 9th, 2022, is…
By Mohammed Adam Nigeria is in the throes of corruption. It is the singular evil that has amplified every other thing that ails the nation. Almost all crimes in the land can be attributed to the impact of corruption on the individual and collective psyche – when apprehended, the modern-day Nigerian bandit,…
Making sure we present the right governorship candidate to Lagosians for the 2023 election in Lagos, and if opportunity permits, historically go into the election and win for my party, may be my first, and the last mission to achive as the chairman of the Labour Party in Lagos State. I am not…
About two months after the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party, aggrieved Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, and the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday met behind closed doors in Abuja. Although the details of the meeting were still sketchy as of the time of this report, sources in the PDP…
A former Inspector-General of Police, Mustapha Balogun, died at a hospital in Lekki, Lagos at about 8:30 pm on Thursday during a brief illness, according to family sources. Born August 25, 1947, in Ila Orangun, Osun State, he was appointed the IGP in March 2002. Balogun died at 74, few days to his 75th birthday….
Rotary club of Ikeja recently honoured some of its members who have clocked 70 years and above and have also spent 30 years and above in the club at an event that took place recently during its meeting at the Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja. Some of the elders who were honoured are, Past Assistant Governors,…
The Akwa Ibom State High Court on Thursday sentenced Uduak Akpan to death for murdering a job-seeker, Iniobong Umoren. The 21-year-old Akpan had in May 2021 raped and killed Twitter job-seeker Iniobong Umoren and buried the body in a shallow grave in his father’s compound. Umoren, based in Uyo, was job-hunting when she met her…
The Bank’s Firstmonie Agents play a critical role in promoting financial inclusion in the country The Bank currently has over 180,000 Firstmonie Agents spread across 772 Local Government Areas in Nigeria Since 2020, FirstBank has economically empowered thousands of its Firstmonie Agents with over 100 billion naira credit facility. First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s…
