archiveJune 4, 2019

  Israel’s first lady, Nechama Rivlin, 73, died on Tuesday morning after battling with a respiratory disease for years, the Presidential Residence announced. She died at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva. Three months ago, Rivlin underwent a lung transplant. Rivlin suffered from pulmonary fibrosis and required the constant use of...

Vice-President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo is to inaugurate a cooking gas manufacturing plant in Lagos on June 7. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the plant is the biggest of its type in West Africa. The Chief Executive Officer of Techno Oil Group, Mrs Nkechi Obi, told reporters in...

The global reach of the United Nations makes it “the world's best hope for peace and security, sustainable development and the promotion and protection of human rights and social progress”, said the top Nigerian diplomat who will be the next President of the General Assembly. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, Nigeria’s current UN...

“We may be different in our faiths, different in our ethnicities, but we are one people, the Nigerian people are one and united.” – VP Osinbajo REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PROF. YEMI OSINBAJO, SAN, GCON, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, AT THE EID-FITR HOMAGE TO PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU...

  United States’ tennis star, Serena Williams, has made history as the first athlete to make Forbes’ list of the World’s Richest Self-Made Women. According to the publication, the 23-time Grand Slam champion made the list as a result of her estimated fortune of $224 million (£177m). The majority of...

  The Chairman, Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN), Mr Bank-Anthony Okoroafor, has urged the Federal Government to find lasting solution to the insecurity in the country to attract more investments. Okoroafor gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, on Tuesday. According...

The sum of £211,000,000 that belonged to a former Nigeria Head of State, General Sani Abacha, has been seized from a Jersey bank account, the UK Metro reports. Abacha laundered money through the US into the Channel Islands. The money was put in accounts held in Jersey by Doraville Properties...

Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Amb. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, has emerged President of the 74th UN General Assembly. NAN reports that Muhammad-Bande, the sole candidate for the position, was elected through acclamation at the 87th plenary meeting of the Assembly in New York on Tuesday. He is the second...

  President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN),  Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, has said that the present two per cent economic development being pursued by the Federal Government would not engender an economic growth the country so desired. Ohuabunwa made the comment in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...