archiveSeptember 8, 2019

  The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has said that 38,807 Nigerians who participated in this year’s pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia have been brought back in 80 flights. The commission clarified that all the 599 pilgrims on board the Max air flight which crash-landed at the Minna airport on...

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), Aliyu Abdulhameed, said in spite of agricultural loan opportunities, lack of structure along the value chain is a major challenge. He disclosed this at the 2019 Agriculture Summit Africa, a two day summit...

SABEX, the world’s first end-to-end blockchain commodities trading and financing platform, was formally unveiled to policy makers, agriculture value chain players, investors, international financiers and development agencies at the 2019 edition of Agriculture Summit Africa, organized by Sterling Bank Plc, at the weekend in Abuja. Powered by Sterling Bank, Binkabi...

  The governors of Katsina, Sokoto and Zamfara States have jointly signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Governor of Maradi region in Niger Republic on best approaches to addressing the security challenges in their states. This was contained in a statement issued by Yusuf Idris, the Director-General, Press...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has started that the processes for placement of candidates into all tiers of tertiary institutions for the 2019/2020 academic session remains sacrosanct. JAMB’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...