February 2026 – Page 174

Paga & Leadway Offer Doroki Merchants Insurance Solutions

05.02.2026

Paga, the fintech company behind the Doroki merchant platform, has entered into a strategic partnership with Leadway Assurance to provide comprehensive insurance solutions for users on the platform. Leadway Assurance stated on Tuesday that the partnership is designed to help merchants protect their businesses from daily risks and bounce back swiftly from unexpected setbacks. Under...

How Nigeria’s Reforms Are Rewriting And Modernising Trade Facilitation

05.02.2026

On the surface, the 2026 World Customs Organisations Technology Conference in Abu Dhabi in the last week of January 2026, followed a familiar script. Flags, formal sessions, carefully worded speeches. But beneath the choreography, something more consequential was unfolding. As customs chiefs and trade officials compared notes on the future of borders, Nigeria arrived not...

Senate’s Rejection Of Election Result E-transmission, Harmful To Democracy – PDP

05.02.2026

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said the rejection of electronic transmission of election results at polling units, by the Senate, in the amendment of the Electoral Act, 2022, is harmful to the nation’s democratic process. PDP in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Ini Emembong, reminded the lawmakers that as representatives of the people,...

PANDEF Demands 30 Mini-Refineries, LNG Plants In N’Delta

05.02.2026

The Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) yesterday told the Federal Government to establish at least 30 mini-refineries and mini-liquefied natural gas plants in Niger Delta. Addressing journalists at the NUJ Secretariat in Ughelli, spokesman for the group Ominimini Obiuwevbi said while Nigeria survives on resources extracted from the region, its people remain impoverished, unemployed, and deliberately...

McPherson University Wins Florence Nightingale Essay Competition

05.02.2026

McPherson University has been crowned the overall winner of the Florence Nightingale Essay Competition in Ogun State, beating Crescent University and College of Nursing Ilaro (CONIL) to second and third positions respectively. The Florence Nightingale Essay Competition, which focuses on promoting research, ethical practice, and compassionate leadership among nursing students, was held under the theme...

Fubara Donates Hilux Van To NYSC, Lauds Corps Members Performance

05.02.2026

Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has donated a Hilux van to the management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC ), South South Area Office II, Port Harcourt to strengthen it’s operations in the state. The governor made the donation following an appeal made by the Director General of the NYSC, BrigGen OO Nafiu, when...

Owokoniran Installed As S’West Chair Of ADC

05.02.2026

The National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Senator David Mark, has appointed and sworn in a former Commissioner for Housing in Lagos State, Alhaji Rahman Akanni Owokoniran, as the South West Zonal Chairman of the party. This is just as the party, in a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday after the inauguration...

APC-Led Senate Has Set Nigeria’s Democracy Backward

05.02.2026

Opposition political parties have said that by rejecting the electronic transmission of election results, the Nigerian Senate has set Nigeria’s democracy backward by many decades. In a joint statement on Thursday by their spokespersons, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi (African Democratic Congress, ADC); Ini Emembong (Peoples Democratic Party, PDP); and Bamofin Ladipo Johnson (New Nigeria Peoples Party,...

Kwara Attack ‘Pure Massacre’ – Gov AbdulRazaq

05.02.2026

Following the brutal killings of residents in Woro and Nuku Local Government Area of Kwara State by terrorists, Governor Abdulrahman AbdulRazaq has described the attack as a “Pure massacre.” Governor AbdulRazaq, who spoke when he visited the area and the Palace of the Emir of Kaiama, Muazu Omar, said 75 people killed in the incident have been...

Al-Hikmah Varsity Founder Extols Gov. AbdulRazaq At 66

05.02.2026

The Founder of Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, AbdulRaheem Oladimeji, has poured encomiums on the Kwara State Governor, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, on the commemoration of his 66th birthday anniversary. According to him, Governor AbdulRazaq’s commitment to the development and well-being of the people of the state is a testament to the genuineness of his passion to bring...