archiveSeptember 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...

*why we need a new set of practice directions for virtual court proceedings Having contemplated the computerization of court proceedings over the years, the endorsement of virtual court proceedings by a Supreme Court ruling is wise as it has saved “our system of justice another catastrophic round of technical decisions...

  The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Thursday directed state governments and school administrators to begin preparations for the full reopening of schools across the country. The Federal Government had in March ordered the closure of all learning centres across the country in a bid to check the spread...

The National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Dr. Sani Aliyu, on Thursday directed the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to start making preparations for the reopening of orientation camps nationwide. The Federal Government had in March directed the NYSC to shut down the orientation camps across the...

Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun (SAN), Vice-Chancellor, Lagos State University(LASU), Ojo, has urged staff and students to keep attracting more world class research opportunities and leading initiatives that would make the institution more globally competitive. In a statement on Thursday in Lagos, Fagbohun said that the “2021 Times Higher Education Ranking”, which ranked...

 The Naira on Thursday gained one point to appreciate against the dollar at the parallel market in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that the Naira exchanged at N439 to a dollar at the parallel market in Lagos, while Pound Sterling and the Euro closed at N580 and...

  The nation’s bourse sustained positive rally on Thursday with the market capitalisation increasing by N26 billion on the back of interim dividends declared by some banks. The market capitalisation which opened at N13.282 trillion rose by N26 billion or 0.20 per cent to close at N13.308 trillion. Also, the...

  By Olukayode Kolawole Covid-19 pandemic has left the world in dire straits by causing a recession from which global economies will have to wait till 2022 for recovery. The World Bank 2020 Global Economic Prospect, June 2020, forecast that the pandemic will plunge all countries into the worst recession...