archiveMarch 14, 2020

Winners at the 2020 Argungu International Fishing festival in Kebbi State have gone home with prizes ranging from brand new cars, millions of naira and hajj slots. The first prize winner, Malam Abubakar Ya’u from Augie Local Government Area of Kebbi State, who caught a fish weighing 78 kilogrammes, went...

  West Ham United vice-chairman Karen Brady says hopes of re-starting the English Premier League in three weeks are “dreamland” and believes this season could be declared null and void. England’s top-flight football league, like the rest of world sports, finds itself in unprecedented peace-time territory as it attempts to...

  Dr Adesola Adedmyuntan, Chief Executive Officer, FirstBank Nigeria, has restated the bank’s commitment to continue promoting an enabling environment for women to thrive and reach their maximum career potential. Adeduntan said this during the maiden anniversary celebration of FirstBank Women Network and International Women’s Day on Saturday in Lagos....

  Apple will shut all of its retail stores outside of China for two weeks to help control the spread of the coronavirus. Chief executive Tim Cook announced the move in a letter posted to the company’s website, writing that Apple learned lessons from the closures of its stores in...

Security experts have identified good governance as a panacea to the recurring problems of insecurity in the country. The experts, in a communique issued at the end of a three day conference at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna, also called for the promotion of critical thinking education as...

  The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says it has changed its recruitment portal to www.Immigrationrecruitment.org.ng. The Service Public Relations Officer (SPRO) Mr Sunday James disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. James said that the earlier portal www.nisrecruitment.org.ng advertised was no longer in use and not tenable. “The...

Some candidates of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have expressed optimism in the conduct and outcome of the 2020 exercise. The candidates spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Saturday, during the 2020 UTME examination scheduled by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation...

The Managing Director of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim has said that there is urgent need to bring more Nigerians into the financial services net. Ibrahim said the call has become necessary because about 40 per cent of Nigerians do not have access to financial services....

The Nigerian Stock Exchange(NSE) was greatly affected by the Cononavirus as the market All-Share Index and Market Capitalization both depreciated by 13.49 per cent to close the week at 22,733.35 and N11.847 trillion respectively. All other indices also finished lower while NSE ASeM Index closed flat as only  equities appreciated...

The Department of State Services (DSS) has dismissed reports that the presidential detail killed the intruder that tried to break the security cordon to attack President Muhammadu Buhari at Argungu, Kebbi State on 12th March 2020. A statement by the Public Relations Officer of the Service, Dr Peter Afunanya, said...