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Dangote women empowerment program reaches N4.3billion in disbursement …He understands Nigeria better than some politicians-Gov

The Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) has doled out a whooping N4.2billion as part of its unconditional Micro Grant Programme for empowering women in the rural areas across the country. Speaking at the flag-off of its one-off unconditional Micro-grants Programme Tuesday in Bauchi, Chairman of the Aliko Dangote Foundation empowered twenty thousand vulnerable women across the 20 Local Government Areas of ... Read More »

Heirs Life Assurance Partners Avon Medical on World Blood Donor Day

Newly launched specialist life insurance company, Heirs Life Assurance (HLA) has partnered Avon Medical to organize a blood drive in commemoration of the 2021 World Blood Donor Day. The event, which was held on Monday, June 14, 2021, at the ultramodern Avon Medical Dialysis Centre in Ikeja, Lagos had individuals present to donate blood for those in dire need of ... Read More »

GOVERNOR ABUBAKAR SANI BELLO LAUNCHES SPECIAL VIGILANTE CORPS AND OPERATIONAL VEHICLES

Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has launched the Niger Special Vigilante Corps (NSVC) aimed at checking the activities of youth gangs, especially in Minna. Governor Sani Bello launched the Special vigilante Corps who were drawn from nine different local security outfits at the Police Headquarters, Minna. He said that the special vigilante corps is to compliment the manpower deficit in the ... Read More »

Prominent Businessman and Politician Abisoye Fagade Loses Mum

Abisoye Fagade, prominent businessman, PR guru and new age politician, is bereaved. His mother, Deaconess Comfort Omoladun Fagade, died on Sunday, June 13, 2021, after a brief Illness. She was aged 78. Fagade, the CEO of Sodium Group and convener of Oyo Si Ma Dun, OSMD Network Summit, took to his social media handles to mourn his mother. According to ... Read More »

The World Bank and the African Union’s Covid-19 Africa Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT) agree to work together to deploy vaccines for 400 million Africans

14 June 2021 – The President of the World Bank, Mr David Malpass, and his senior management team comprised of Dr Axel van Trotsenburg and Dr Makhtar Diop met with the African Union’s COVID-19 Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT) to discuss modalities for a partnership that will accelerate vaccine deployment to Africa. In a historic COVID-19 vaccine procurement agreement signed ... Read More »

Lagos State Office Of Civic Engagement Sensitizes Children On The Effect Of Drug Abuse And Cultism, Approves 21 Year Jail Term For Convicted Cultist

The Lagos State Government Ministry of Civic Engagement led by The Special Adviser to the Governor of Lagos State on Civic Engagement, Princess Aderemi Abowale sensitizes children on the effect of Drug Abuse and Cultism amongst youths on the 19th of May 2021. In a bid to stop and reduce the alarming rate of Drug Abuse and Cultism in the ... Read More »

”I WAS SEXUALLY HARASSED ON CAMPUS” …EKITI FIRST LADY, BISI FAYEMI

Following BBC Africa Eye’s investigations in a documentary released on Monday titled: Sex-for-Grades, the First Lady of Ekiti state, Erelu Bisi Fayemi has revealed that she was a victim of sexual harassment during her university days. This is coming after BBC Africa Eye released the video as part of its exclusive undercover investigation of sexual harassment in two West African ... Read More »

AMBODE PLEDGES TO PURSUE POLICIES, PROGRAMMES TO EMPOWER WOMEN

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on Wednesday pledged that his administration will pursue programmes and policies that will empower women to be self-reliant, especially through the provision of financial facilities and capacity building. The Governor made the pledge at the opening ceremony of the 2015 National Women Conference, organised by the Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials (COWLSO) ... Read More »

FULL PROFILE OF WFM 91.7 ON-AIR-PERSONALITIES OAPs

ABISOLA GRACE AIYEOLA The British born talent is currently studying Business management at National Open University of Nigeria is one of Nigeria’s budding Nollywood’s finest.  Featured in over 15 movies including  “Forever with us”, “President for a day”, “The patient”, “The outlaws”, “Diary of a Nigerian couple” etc. A singer whose talent has brought her to one of the biggest ... Read More »

7 Killed In Yola IDP Camp Bomb Blast

Suspected Boko Haram terrorists on Friday detonated a bomb at Maikohi Camp – Nigeria’s largest Internally Displaced Camps (IDPs) – located in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State. The attack killed seven people and injured 20, the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, said. “Among the injured seven (7) were treated and discharged while thirteen (13) persons including four (4) NEMA ... Read More »