FirstBank celebrates Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Week: Promoting random acts of kindness

First Bank of Nigeria Limited has initiated a whole week of celebrating its Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CR&S) initiatives from September 25 – 29, 2017. The historical FirstBank CR&S week themed ‘Promoting Kindness; Putting You First’ would witness the culmination and consolidation of the Bank’s interventions in social responsibility, promoting random acts of kinds across... Read More

Arabic studies: Kumuyi, Adeboye, Oyedepo, others ask students to boycott classes

The General Overseers of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye; The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM), Bishop Mike Okonkwo; Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo; Deeper Life Church, Pastor WF Kumuyi among others, have ordered Christian students across the country to boycott Arabic Studies amid reports that the subject was made compulsory. Also... Read More

The News Blog

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June 21, 2017

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Why tempering CRS and IRS is a good thing

by Alexander O. Onukwue Every Nigerian and his dog are dedicated to one religion or another, to tamper with that aspect of their lives is to tamper with the essence of what makes them. So there should be no surprise that there is a ruckus about the supposed adjustment in the curriculum of secondary schools,... Read More

Thinking Through

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June 21, 2017

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Have IRS and CRS been removed from the curriculum?

by Alexander O. Onukwue There have been reports that the teaching of Islamic Religious Studies and Christian Religious Studies have been removed from the curriculum of secondary school students. This follows the protest by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) over the replacement of Christian Education in schools with Islamic Studies. The leadership of CAN... Read More

Story of the day, Thinking Through

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