Plateau Government has allocated portions of land of the Brewery Agro Research Company (BARC) in Zallaki community of Bassa Local Government Area to different categories of qualified people, as part of efforts to revamp the Jos International Breweries (JIB). The beneficiaries include: farmers associations, civil servants and pensioners. News...
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The Federal Government has approved N13 billion as intervention fund for pest control in 12 northern states, to reduce the effects of COVID-19 on the nation’s food sector. The 12 `frontline’ states, to benefit from the fund are Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara, Katsina, Kano, Jigawa, Bauchi, Gombe, Adamawa, Taraba, Yobe and...
First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s leading financial inclusion services provider on Thursday presented 20,000 units of e-learning devices to the Lagos State government at the State House in Marina, Lagos. A statement on Saturday by the bank stated that the devices were planned for distribution to school children....
A mother-of-two, Takieyah Reaves, from Newark, New Jersey, now lives with her intestines hanging out of her abdomen after surviving a horrific nightclub shooting. Reaves, 32, defied death in July 2017 to survive being shot twice on her stomach and right leg by a random attacker who sprayed bullets...
Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central in Ghana, Kennedy Agyapong has waded into the nosedive of footballing in the country, indicating its destruction has been caused by the invasion of politicians. According to him, Ghana’s football had a bright future until politicians involved themselves in the game which...
Nigeria records 627 new COVID-19 cases, another high for two consecutive days, the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control(NCDC) says. In a tweet on Friday, the centre said Nigeria has 15,181 cases of the COVID-19. The NCDC also said that as at June 12, 12 deaths were recorded. The however said that...
African countries on Friday called on the UN Human Rights Council to urgently debate racism and police brutality in the wake of the global protests that followed George Floyd’s killing by an officer in the US. In a letter said to had been written on behalf of 54 African...
State investigators in both California and Washington are examining Amazon’s business practices, Reuters accredited two newspapers reported, citing people familiar with the matter. It said the inquiries focus at least in part on how Amazon treats sellers in its online marketplace, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times had reported...
About 1,089 Nigerian asylum seekers are reported to have disappeared after arrival in the Netherlands last year and early this year. According to the report, a group of investigative journalists said many of the Nigerians fell victim to human traffickers, who forced them into prostitution or drug trafficking across...
Britain’s economy has shrank by a quarter over March and April as entire sectors were shuttered by the coronavirus lockdown in what looks likely to be the bottom of a “catastrophic” crash before a long and slow recovery. According to recent data, dwarfing previous downturns, the economy contracted by...
Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo, says he will not appeal his disqualification by the Governorship Primary Screening Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Obaseki, who said this in a statement issued by Mr Crusoe Osagie, his Special Adviser on Media and Communication Strategy, however, described the action as ‘a...
It took 98 days for continent to reach 100,000 cases and just 18 days to reach 200,000, the body says. Ninety-eight days. That is how long it took for confirmed coronavirus infections to reach the 100,000 mark in Africa. But when it came to those cases doubling up to...
Today, June 12, we mark our country’s realignment to the cause of democratic principles. This generational shift in our polity reassures our people that Nigeria is indeed on the path to greatness, where our people are empowered to make contributions and point directions to the course of our nation’s...
NATIONAL BROADCAST BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI ON DEMOCRACY DAY, JUNE 12TH 2020 Fellow Nigerians, 1. The 2020 celebration of Democracy Day marks 21 years of uninterrupted civil administration in our dear country. This day provides us an opportunity to reflect on our journey as a nation, our achievements and struggles. 2. It...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this on its official Twitter handle,. The centre said that as at June 11, Nigeria recorded a total of 14,554 cases with five deaths. The agency said that no new state had reported a case in the last 24 hours. NCDC said Lagos State...
Polaris Bank has announced that within its first 100 days of introduction, its Agency Banking initiative, SurePadi, has serviced over half a million customers impacting directly an estimated two million households across the seven business regions of the Bank nationwide. It said in a statement on Thursday that beyond...