archiveMarch 2021

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday said the routine overseas medical checkup embarked by President Muhammadu Buhari is a direct indictment of his Presidency over failure to fix the national healthcare system. The party described as worrisome that under President Buhari, even the hitherto highly rated State House Clinic,...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is currently presiding over the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in President Muhammadu Buhari’s absence. Before the meeting kicked off in earnest on Wednesday, the cabinet members observed a minute silence in honour of two former ministers; one-time Minister of Science and Technology, Senator Bode Olowoporoku;...

    OAU post-UTME results out   The management of the University of Lagos has released cut-off marks for 2020/2021 admission into the institution. The information was placed on its website on Tuesday. Similarly, the management of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife has released the post-UTME results for 2020/2021 admission....

Nigeria’s Access Bank Plc has acquired the South African’s Grobank. This acquisition is its third in eight months, having taken over Kenya’s Transnational Bank in July last year and Zambia-based Cavmont Bank in January. Access Bank paid about $60 million to purchase a controlling interest in South Africa’s 74-year-old Grobank,...

  The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 121 new cases of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), taking the total number of infected people in the country to 162,762.The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the country has...

flags off 27th MSMEs Clinic in Gombe State says MSMEs nationwide are being supported by the FG under ESP schemes to cushion the effects of the pandemic on small businesses commends inventors of Nigeria’s first, medical-grade ventilator A major strength of the Nigerian economy lies in the innovation and entrepreneurship...

 The Department for Petroleum Resources (DPR), has assured Nigerians of adequate supply of petroleum products before, during and after the Easter.Mr Paul Osu, Head, Public Affairs, DPR made this known in a statement issued on Wednesday in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Federal Government had...

  National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Bola Tinubu, has called for the recruitment of eligible youths into the armed forces, police and other security agencies to effectively secure the country.Tinubu, in a statement on Tuesday, by his Media Aide, Tunde Rahman, said this would also...

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has warned Ministry officials against misadvising President Muhammadu Buhari on bills passed by the National Assembly and forwarded to him for Presidential assent. Lawan gave the warning on Tuesday during a day-two of a public hearing organized by the Senate Committee on Health on...

  Cititrust Financial Services, an investment firm, has perfected arrangements to list by introduction on the nation’s bourse before the end of the second quarter. The Country Chief Executive Officer of Cititrust Financial Services, Mr Ikechukwu Peter, disclosed this at a media parley on Tuesday in Lagos. Peter said that...