archiveSeptember 4, 2020

Serena Williams battled her way through to a 6-2 6-4 victory over Russia’s Margarita Gasparyan in the second round of the U.S. Open on Thursday. Victory meant she continued her bid for a record-equaling 24th Grand Slam title. A dominant Williams sailed through the first set at Arthur Ashe Stadium...

Nigeria has recorded 125 new cases of COVID-19, bringing to 54,588 the number of confirmed cases in the country. Announcing this Thursday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said Lagos recorded 42 new cases; Federal Capital Territory (FCT), 25; Katsina, 14; Kaduna, 11; Kwara, eight; Ondo, seven; Delta, four;...

  Proposes N.30 per share interim dividend   Zenith Bank Plc presented its first-half of 2020 financial reports to The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Thursday with stronger profitability as its profit-before-tax settling at 2.2 per cent higher year-on-year, however, profit-after-tax settled 16.8 per cent higher year-on-year, on account of...