#EndSARS protesters ask panel to summon Sanwo-Olu, Fashola, others (Nation) The counsel for the #EndSARS protesters, Mr. Adesina Ogunlana has asked the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS related abuses and other matters to…
Okonjo-Iweala elected WTO DG
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s nominee for the office of the director-general of the World Trade Organisation, has emerged winner of the highly competitive race. According to a Vanguard newspaper report, the former minister polled 104 votes from 164 member countries to…
Obi congratulates Prof Florence Obi on emergence as UNICAL’s First Female VC
Vice Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general elections, Mr Peter Obi, has rejoiced with Professor Florence Obi, who just broke a 45-year jinx by emerging the first female Vice-Chancellor-elect of the University of Calabar…
Okonjo-Iweala eyes World Bank presidency (Guardian)
Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Prof. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has renewed her interest in vying for the post of World Bank’s President. Okonjo-Iweala, in an interview with Richard Quest on Cable News Network (CNN), disclosed this yesterday in Davos, Switzerland. She…
Anyantola Elizabeth, Ifeoma Udeaja, Jennifer Ifeoma, others win big in 618Bees competition
Technology startup 618 Bees has announced the winners of its month long NaijaWomanHero competition. Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Efe Ugboro, says winners were chosen after extensive voting on social media platform Instagram, and on the 618Bees website. “We have…
How I influenced Jonathan’s concession to Buhari- Okonjo-Iweala
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Nigeria’s finance minister said she convinced former president Goodluck Jonathan, to concede defeat to his major opponent, Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 general election. Jonathan lost to Buhari at the presidential poll but Okonjo-Iweala has said she…
CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele waxes lyrical on President Buhari’s economic management prowess -Magnus Onyibe
A certain chief executive officer of a first generation commercial bank once made a remark that agriculture has always been a key component of Nigeria’s gross domestic product (GDP). In a 2017 interview, he said “What hasn’t happened is to…
I never said Fashola, Rotimi, were scavengers – Okonjo-Iweala (Punch)
Former Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has slammed those she termed “mischief-makers” for “putting words” in her mouth, saying she described former governors Rotimi Amaechi and Raji Fashola, now ministers, as scavengers. Okonjo-Iweala, who was also a former…
I’m done serving Nigeria –Okonjo-Iweala (SUN)
Former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, at an event preceding the signing of the book, ‘Fighting Corruption is Dangerous: The Story Behind the Headlines’ held at the Politics and Prose, Washington DC, which had in audience members of her family, friends,…
