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Entrepreneurship Platform Initiative Inspires Women, Youths to Embark On Profitable Ventures

Panelists at the first Lagos seminar of the Entrepreneurship Platform Initiative (EPI), have urged budding entrepreneurs particularly women and youths to be innovative and aspire beyond their set business targets. The panelists in their respective remarks at the forum encouraged women to take advantage of their God given skills and develop great business ideas so […]

Stratolaunch Is About To Be Launched- The World’s Biggest Plane

The world’s largest plane, Stratolaunch, could be just months away from its first flight. The aircraft, which is the vision of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has a wingspan longer than a football field and comes equipped with two cockpits, 28 wheels and six engines normally used to power 747 jumbo jets. Eventually, it will be […]

Gender Equality, Women Empowerment Are Philanthropic Foundations

Education is the most prominent area of philanthropic focus in all regions across the world, a new report conducted by researchers at Harvard Kennedy School’s Hauser Institute for Civil Society, has shown. The Global Philanthropy Report, released on Thursday, revealed that 35 per cent of 28,988 foundations researched across the world focused, at least some […]

Man Impersonates Late Father, To Secure N40m Loan

A 55-year-old man was docked on Thursday, before an Ikeja Chief Magistrate Court, for allegedly forging land documents of his late father to secure N40 million loan from a bank. The accused, Mukaila Kosebinu, who resides at No. 9, Sule-Aleja St., Aga, Ikorodu in Lagos State, is facing a four-count charge bordering on conspiracy, forgery […]

County Bosses Pledge To Better The Lives Of Youths and Women

Governors last evening pledged to help better lives of the youth and women in a bid to expand impact of devolution. On the opening session of the conference, the Council of Governors (CoG) said this will help make these two groups more useful in the society. Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru who is the CoG vice […]

Killer Herdsmen Are Sponsored, Says Military

The Defence Headquarters, Abuja, said on Thursday that the fresh rounds of killings in Benue State were being sponsored. It added that the military would, however, soon apprehend both the killer herdsmen and their sponsors. The Director, Defence Information, Brig. Gen. John Agim, stated this in an interview with one of our correspondents on Thursday, […]

Adeosun, Dangote And Others Get ICAN Merit Award

Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, president of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, and chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service, Mr. Tunde Fowler, are among personalities to be honoured with merit award of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN). They will be honoured at a ceremony holding on […]

Women Leaders Forum Kicks Off In Addis Ababa

The Second Women Leaders Forum for Africa’s Transformation kicked off at the African Union Headquarters today. The forum aims to enhance women’s contributions in building and sustaining peace, security and political processes for sustainable economic and social transformation towards the realization of Africa Agenda 2063 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Speaking at the […]

FG Approves N68bn For Lagos-Ibadan, Bauchi-Kano Roads

The federal government wednesday approved a total of N64.1 billion for further construction on what it described as section one on Lagos – Ibadan expressway. It also approved N4.5 billion for the reconstruction of Subaila-Falala-Bini-Baku-Bauchi Road which Kano with Bauchi State.Briefing journalists at the end of a six-hour FEC meeting in the State House, the […]

Uganda Borrows $40m To Fight Sexual Abuse

 A Cabinet decision to borrow $40m (Shs144b) to fight sexual abuse in the country was informed by a World Bank demand for the government to safeguard women working at public infrastructure construction sites, this newspaper can reveal. Multiple sources told Daily Monitor yesterday that Ugandan bureaucrats led by Finance minister Matia Kasaija made the initial […]