Nigeria’s Parallex Bank Ltd. has received $10 million trade finance facility from the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Dr Femi Bakre, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Parallex Bank, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos. Bakre said the financing, deployed under the...
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Berger Paints Nigeria Plc has launched a new logo in a bold move to reposition the company for global competitiveness, increase earnings and boost shareholders value. The launch which held in Lagos had in attendance some members of the company’s board of directors, representatives of the shareholders and senior...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has urged journalists and entertainers within the South-East to join the agency in its current war against the use of bleaching cream. The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, made the call on Wednesday in Enugu while addressing...
Nigeria’s cabinet has approved N24.2 billion for the provision of Internet facilities at 20 airports, some institutions of learning and markets across the country. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami, disclosed this when he briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the Council meeting...
Rev. Fr Hyacinth Alia, the Benue Governor-elect on Wednesday received his Certificate of Return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), promising to live up to the expectations of the people. “We will not take this trust of yours for granted. We remain indebted to all who made this...
The Senate has set up an ad hoc committee to recover over N6 trillion unpaid ground rate from property owners in the country. This followed the adoption of a motion by Sen. Yusuf Yusuf (APC-Taraba ) during plenary on Wednesday. Moving the motion, Yusuf said that the land use...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC), a collaborative research programme seeking to tackle complex urban challenges in the continent’s rapidly changing cities, would help in generating robust insights and evidences that will help improve the living conditions and urban services for all city residents. The...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC) Bauchi State Sector Command, has confirmed that five people were, on Wednesday, burnt beyond recognition in a fatal multiple crash at Panshanu Village along Bauchi-Jos road in Toro Local Government Area of Bauchi State. The FRSC Sector Commander...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Sokoto State Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Gumel has warned criminal minded people in Sokoto against unruly behaviours, noting that the Command will not hesitate to deal with anybody or group of persons hiding under the guise of celebrating electoral victory to commit crime....
By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin – Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has submitted to the State House of Assembly seven nominees for the board of the Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission (KWSIEC). The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Rafiu Ajakaye, disclosed this in a statement issued in Ilorin on...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigeria Police Force says it will prosecute a musician, one Habeeb Okikiola, (AKA Portable), for allegedly exhibiting irrational behaviour and hurling insults at Police Officers on legal duty. The Force Spokesperson, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, confirmed this in a statement on Wednesday. Adejobi condemned...
An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court remanded an 80-year-old man, Lucas Ateniola, at the correctional centre in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday over alleged murder and attempted murder. Police prosecutor, Insp Caleb Leramo, had earlier told the court that Ateniola murdered one Elizabeth Nwamaka and attempted to murder a 20-year-old, Alice Bodunride...
An Ibadan-based trader, Sola Famuyibo, told a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan that her brother in-law’s wife, Sumbo “charmed” her husband with cooking. Famuyibo, made the allegations in her counter argument against her husband’s claim that she was maltreating him in the matrimony. She added that things...
The National Industrial Court, has ordered Med-View Airline Nig. Ltd to pay its former staff, Mr Garba Abubakar the sum of N5 million being his unpaid entitlements. The entitlements accrued from his unpaid salaries from Feb. to Dec. 2018 and unremitted monthly pension deductions from May 2016 to Dec....
The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a suit brought before it against Sen. Elisha Abbo challenging his candidacy as the All Progressives Congress (APC) representative for Adamawa North Senatorial District in the last National Assembly election. Justice Inyang Okoro in a unanimous judgment of a five-member panel of Justices...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu on the occasion of his 71st birthday, describing him as an inimitable statesman with an unyielding quest for a freer, just and vibrant Nigeria. Mr Felix Morka, the party’s National Publicity Secretary,...
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will meet Ghanaian women entrepreneurs on Wednesday to discuss economic empowerment and leadership, her last engagement in Accra before heading to Tanzania to continue her week-long African tour. Harris is the latest U.S. government figure to visit African countries, after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – A humanitarian intervention focused on providing integrated food, nutrition sanitation and protection services in Nigeria’s north-east region will empower over 300,000 mothers and caregivers. The intervention is aimed at enhancing dietary practices, home-based malnutrition screening skills, provision of high impact lifesaving nutrition interventions (such...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia- The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has presented certificates of return to Nasarawa State Governor, Engr Abdullahi Sule, his Deputy Dr Emmanuel Akabe and the Speaker of the State Assembly, Rt. Hon. Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi as well as other members-elect for the State Assembly. The...