archiveJuly 2020

• donates ambulance, cash Central Securities Clearing System (CSCS) Plc, Nigeria’s capital market infrastructure has donated a fully equipped ambulance to the Capital Market Support Committee for COVID-19 (CMSCC), a laudable initiative of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), chaired by one of the capital market veterans, Mr. Ariyo Olushekun....

The Ekiti State Government has announced the change in the resumption of pupils and students in graduating classes at both private and public schools from July 20 to August 3. Mr Foluso Daramola, the State’s Commissioner for Education, made this known during a media chat on Wednesday in Ado-Ekiti, NAN...

Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has warned security operatives not to harass or extort money from the public under the guise of enforcing compulsory use of face mask. The governor gave the warning on Wednesday when he donated masks to representatives of bankers, traders, transport operators, maritime workers and others...

Nigeria reported 643 new confirmed cases of coronavirus over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections to 34,259, the country’s infectious disease outfit, NCDC, announced early Thursday. Of the 643 new cases, Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous city, reported 230 infections, bringing the total number of infections there...

The Sokoto Zonal Head of Operations of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Abdullahi Lawal, on Wednesday, July 15, 2020 told a Sokoto State High Court, sitting in Sokoto, that two Chinese: Meng Wei Kun and Xu Kuai offered him a bribe of Fifty Million Naira (N50,000.000.00) on behalf...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), says it has disbursed a total of 3.55 billion dollars to the Egyptian Banking sector in a bid to cushion the Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact in the region. Prof. Benedict Oramah, the President of Afreximbank disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja, saying...

Justice I.N. Buba of Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on Wednesday, July 15, 2020 convicted and sentenced Captain Ezekiel Bala Agaba, a former executive director, Maritime Safety and Shipping Development, in the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA to seven years jail term for N1.7billion fraud. The...

The Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) has confirmed the match schedule for the 2022 FiFA World Cup in Qatar. A statement on the world football governing body’s website said that the host, Qatar would kick off the 2022 tournament at Al Bayt Stadium. ”Al Bayt Stadium, a 60,000-capacity arena...

The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill seeking to establish the Nigeria Maritime University, Okerenkoko in Delta State. Also passed were two bills to establish the University of Technology, Auchi, Edo State; and Federal College of Education, Giwa, Kaduna State. The three bills were passed by the upper chamber following...

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Wednesday cautioned its bribe-seeking officials and members of the public against such practice, to avoid being prosecuted. Mr Imoh Etuk, Assistant Corps Marshal, Zonal Commanding Officer, RS2.2, gave the warning during a familiarisation visit to the agency’s Command Headquarters, Abeokuta. Etuk warned that...