By TENEBE ANTHONIA, Lagos – Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) continues to drive the development and promotion of retail participation in the Nigerian capital market with its Retail Investor Workshop. On Tuesday, 31 August 2021, NGX hosted a webinar under the series in collaboration with APT Securities and Funds Limited...
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Cristiano Ronaldo will play in all three of Portugal’s fixtures during the international break following his return to Manchester United, head coach Fernando Santos said. Ronaldo completed his United comeback on Tuesday, the five-time Ballon d’Or winner re-joining the Red Devils from Juventus. This is his second spell following...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Officer -in-Charge and Chief of Field Office, UNICEF Maiduguri, Mr. Samuel Sesay has charged media practitioners as watchdog of the society to bring the attention of policy makers , especially, government to the nutrition crisis which has been causing deaths in under 5...
From available records, it was the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, responsible for proposing legislation, enforcing EU laws and directing the union’s administrative operations, that in 1995 defined Governance as the sum of the many ways individuals and institutions, public and private, manage their common...
An Ekiti state Magistrates’ Court, in Ado Ekiti, has ordered Emmanuel Bejide, 40, to be remanded in the Correctional centre, for allegedly defiling his daughter. The magistrate, Mojisola Salau granted the remand order as requested by the Police prosecutor, Sodiq Adeniyi, to enable him forward the duplicate case file...
The remains of 109 Chinese soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War were casketed in South Korea on Wednesday to be sent back to their homeland, the South Korean defense ministry said. The ceremony to lay the 109 remains in coffins was held in Incheon, west of the capital...
A U.S. Navy helicopter crashed Tuesday afternoon off the coast of San Diego, California, prompting search and rescue operations by sea and air, according to the U.S. Navy’s 3rd Fleet. “An MH-60S helicopter embarked aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) crashed into the sea while conducting routine flight operations...
Twenty-nine passengers died, including a child, and more than 20 were injured when a bus plummeted from a cliff in Peru early Tuesday, officials said, in the country’s third multiple-victim transport accident in four days. The accident happened on a narrow stretch of the Carretera Central road some 60...
Niger State Governor Abubakar Bello has suspended the operation of cattle markets across the state. This was communicated in a statement signed on Tuesday by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Ahmed Matane, which stated that it was part of measures to address security challenges in the state....
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerian graduates to apply for the Jubilee Fellows Programme. The programme, a Federal Government initiative in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), aims to place 20,000 skilled young Nigerian graduates (under the age of 30) into jobs in private and public sector...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed all banks in the country to publish the names and Bank Verification Number (BVN) of defaulters of its forex policy. According to a memo issued by CBN, the defaulters of the policy are those using fake visas and canceling air tickets...
The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, has said that Nigerian technological innovations, products and services must meet global standards. A statement signed by Josephine Ademu, Press and Public Relations of the ministry, quoted the minister as saying this on Monday during a working visit to...
By OFFOR CALLISTUS, Abuja – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said the country has recorded 626 new cases of COVID-19 with 14 casualties. The public health agency, in its official website on Wednesday morning, said that the surge in infections was driven by the third wave...
Cristiano Ronaldo’s Manchester United return was the stand-out highlight on deadline day on Tuesday as the English transfer window closed. His move from Juventus was teed-up on Friday. Juventus had said then that Manchester United had agreed to pay 17.7 million dollars for their former forward, with the deal...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Department of State Services (DSS) has raised alarm over plans by some subversive groups and individuals to undertake a negative media campaign against the Service. The Public Relations Officer of the Service, Dr Peter Afunanya, said in a statementin Abuja, said that the...
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has disclosed that so far 2, 897, 201 eligible persons had taken the jab across the 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory. The Executive Director, NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this on Tuesday, in Abuja, at the National Vaccines briefing....
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Former Vice-President Abubakar Atiku; Chairman of the South-West Governors’ Forum, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu and his Edo State counterpart, Governor Godwin Obaseki; as well as the President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, will join the Governor of Oyo State, ‘Seyi Makinde, to...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has called on the Federal Government to intervene in the ongoing communities reconstruction and rehabilitation of basic infrastructures and livelihood support with a view to return normal life to the people at the border towns destroyed by the...