EDUCATING NIGERIA, ONE COMMUNITY AT A TIME: INSIDE UNION BANK OF NIGERIA’S APPROACH TO CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY

Nigeria’s economic ambitions, whether higher productivity, a more competitive private sector, or stronger household resilience, all eventually run through the same bottleneck: the quality of the country’s human capital. For a bank, that fact carries a quiet implication. The customers, entrepreneurs, and employees of the next two decades are sitting in classrooms today, and many of those classrooms are under-resourced. It is in that context that Union Bank of Nigeria has built its corporate social responsibility agenda around one of its major pillars – education. The thinking is not that…

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Police Dismiss ASP Nuhu Usman, Others Over Extrajudicial Killing in Delta

The Nigeria Police Force has ordered the dismissal of ASP Nuhu Usman and several other officers over the extrajudicial killing of an unarmed civilian, Mene Ogidi, in Delta State. The decision followed disciplinary proceedings by the Force Disciplinary Committee and the Orderly Room Tribunal at the Force Headquarters, Abuja. Authorities confirmed that the dismissals remain subject to final approval by the Police Service Commission. Inspector General of Police, Olatunji Disu, who addressed journalists on Wednesday, condemned the officers’ actions, describing them as a clear violation of Force Order 247 governing…

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