archiveSeptember 2020

As part of its further response to deal with the global economic challenge occasioned by COVID-19, Heritage Bank Plc has reiterated commitment to deepen its support to young entrepreneurs in Nigeria to grow their businesses either as start-ups or prospective business owners. This, the bank said, is in line with...

‘Proactive structures in place to end gender-based violence’ Wife of the Oyo State governor, Engineer Tamunominini Olufunke Makinde and the chairperson of the University of Ibadan Women Society (UIWS), who is also the wife of the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. (Mrs.) Wumi Olayinka, have declared their readiness to collectively empower women and...

  U.S. Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden is a puppet figure, who, if elected in November, will ignite a “revolution” in the U.S., President Donald Trump said.“Biden won’t calm things down,” Trump said. They will take over. They will have won. If Biden gets in, they will have won. He’s...

The Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board has said that preparations for the 2021 Hajj operation for intending pilgrims willing to travel with the board will commence on September 7. Alhaji Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh, the Executive Secretary of the board, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...

The management of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) says it has started implementing new Service Reflective Tariff Plan (SRT) across its franchise area from Sept. 1. Mr Oyebode Fadipe, AEDC’s General Manager, Corporate Communications, announced this in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. According to Fadipe, the SRT plan...

  The Ogun State Government has revealed that deciding on who should be the Commander of the Corps in the state is the main reason behind the delay  in inaugurating the Ogun State Security Network, otherwise known as the Amotekun Corps. It would be recalled that Ogun State has kept...

The Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM) says it generated N59.4 million as net surplus for the year ended Dec. 31, 2019 amidst the pros and cons of its internal and external environments. This is contained in a statement issued after the Institute’s 59th Annual General Meeting (AGM) and made available...

  The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has made a move to stop the government of President Muhammadu Buhari from collecting more loans from China by writing to Ahmed Lawan, the President of the Senate requesting the National Assembly to...

  At least 418 health workers have so far contracted COVID-19 in Ondo State since the outbreak of the pandemic in Nigeria. Segun Fatusi, Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on COVID-19 in the state made the disclosure in Akure on Monday. Fatusi said medical doctors attending to sick patients top...

Two persons were confirmed dead and another missing after a fishing boat with seven passengers capsized in Lagos. The incident occurred at about 7:00pm in Ikorodu area of the state on Monday. General Manager of Lagos State Waterways Authority, Oluwadamilola Emmanuel, confirmed this in a statement, saying that the victims...