archiveAugust 2020

 Billionaire philanthropists Bill Gates and Aliko Dangote have hailed the declaration of Nigeria by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as being polio-free. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the global health body on Tuesday certified Nigeria and the rest of Africa polio-free. The WHO Africa Regional Certification Commission...

Dr Qasim Akinreti, Chairman, Lagos State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), has said that the Federal Government promised to provide incentives for the media industry to cushions the effect of COVID-19. Akinreti made this known on Tuesday in Lagos while briefing journalists on the state of the Nigerian...

The management of Media Trust Limited, publishers of Daily Trust and other titles, has expressed anger over the attack on its reporter, Eyo Charles by Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation. Daily Trust said should anything happen to its reporters, Fani-Kayode would be held responsible. The newspaper condemned what...

NOBEL laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has urged the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) to put off its planned 50th anniversary of his prison memoir, titled: The Man Died. In a statement on Tuesday to the national executive of the association, Soyinka said: “For the avoidance of any doubt, I wish...

The deposit money banks (DMBs) providing bank guarantees to Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) Plc and the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on behalf of the Electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) has been directed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to take full responsibility for collections of the Discos’ bills....

    Queries N10 billion expenditure by SEC The Senate Joint Committee on Finance and National Planning, yesterday, asked the management of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and Startimes Pay TV joint venture to step down after failing thrice to convince it on the transparency of the deal. Committee chairman,...

Succor is coming the way of Nigeria-registered airlines and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele and the Bankers’ Committee unanimously agreed to extend special facilities to them, as they battle the ravaging effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Addressing the Bank Chief Executives at the...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) for Tuesday, Augus 25, 2020, confirmed 252 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, bringing the total number to 52,800. The NCDC made the announcement on Tuesday night via its Twitter handle. “On the 25th of August 2020, 252 new confirmed cases and...

  Barcelona legend Lionel Messi has submitted a request to leave the club. The 33-year-old has spent his entire career with the Spanish giants with whom he won six Ballon d’Or. Reliable Catalan reporter Gerard Romero all but confirmed the shocking development. He tweeted: “Thank you President, for this historic...

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), on Tuesday, took former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, to the cleaners for verbally assaulting a journalist during a press conference in Calabar, Cross River State. NUJ, in a statement by its President, Chris Isiguzo, described Fani-Kayode as “an intolerant, unstable person” who does not...