archiveJanuary 27, 2020

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has mobilised and validated 140,848 tomato farmers for the Anchor Borrowers Programme. The CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele disclosed this at the Ground-Breaking ceremony of Tomato Jos at Kangimi community in Kaduna on Monday. Tomato Jos is an American owned company aimed to transform...

  Chief Sola Aboderin, a member of the Ibadan Chamber of Commerce, Mines, Industry and Agriculture (ICCIMA), has lauded the Federal Government’s policy exempting a category of entrepreneurs from paying Companies Income Tax. Aboderin said in Ibadan on Monday that one of the good things the government had done was...

  An FCT High Court on Monday sentenced Maryam Sanda, the woman who  stabbed her husband to death, Bilyaminu, son of a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Haliru Bello, to death by hanging. Delivering judgment, Justice Yusuf Halilu, convicted Sanda based on the `doctrine of last...

  The senatorial candidate for Action Alliance (AA) in the 2019 general election in Imo State, Ndubuisi Emenike, has been shot dead by his security escort, an operative of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). The incident happened accidentally on Sunday at the home of the All Progressives Congress...

  The NBA grappled with the sudden death of league great Kobe Bryant on Sunday, players saying they felt sick to their stomach taking to the court without having ample time to absorb the shocking news. Reports have it that haunting moment of silence preceded the Houston Rockets’ game against...

  Beninese music legend, Angelique Kidjo , on Monday, beats Nigeria's Burna boy to win the best world music album category. Nigerian superstar Afro-fusion artist, Burna Boy, 28, lost in his first attempt to win a Grammy award after being nominated in the best world music album category. This marks...