archiveAugust 18, 2021

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said the state recorded 393 new COVID-19 infections out of the 2,720 tests conducted on Tuesday, bringing the state’s total infections to 69,145. Abayomi said this through his Facebook account @ProfAkinolaAbayomi on Wednesday, while giving the state’s COVID-19 update for Tuesday....

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Abuja Zonal Command, on Wednesday, August 18, 2021 arraigned Princess Carol Ngozi alongside her company, Carolina Luxury Homes, before Justice Hamza Muázu of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Maitama, Abuja on a 30-count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence....

Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) has announced that the August 2021 issue of the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) Savings Bonds were listed on its platform on Wednesday, August 18, 2021. The FGN Savings Bond is an investment instrument targeted at retail investors with a minimum subscription of N5,000. It encourages...

A significant step towards redeeming the pledge by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to intervene in the perennial electric power supply challenge in Maiduguri, Borno State, was taken Tuesday with the execution of the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) and Equipment Procurement contracts for a 50Megawatts (MW) Emergency Power...

Nigeria has been excluded from a list of countries whose citizens are eligible to obtain visa-on-arrival in the United Arab Emirates, UAE. Etihad Airways on Wednesday released a list of countries whose travellers landing at Abu Dhabi airport can receive visas from its immigration desks. Countries such as the U.S.,...

President Muhamamdu Buhari has commenced implementation of the newly signed Petroleum Industry Act by approving a steering committee to oversee the process. A statement issued on Wednesday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, revealed that the steering committee will be headed by the...

  A Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, on Wednesday sentenced a 51-year-old man, Hananiya Gimba, to six years in a correctional centre for cheating. The Magistrate, Mrs Mary Adams, sentenced the convict after he pleaded guilty to the charges of criminal breach of trust and cheating and begged for...

  Nigeria’s Federal Government’s borrowings from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through Ways and Means Advances has risen to N15.51 trillion, a whooping 2,286 per cent increase in six years. This is according to data collated from the CBN by The PUNCH. The N15.51 trillion owed by the Federal...

The Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency (ADSEMA) says no fewer than 2000 people have been affected by flood within a week across the state. Dr. Mohamed Sulaiman, the Executive Secretary of the agency told the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) on Wednesday in Yola that 227 houses and 300...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has raised the alarm that Africa’s increasing population is assuming a worsening trend. Obasanjo worried about how Nigeria and other African countries would be able to keep “this keg of gunpowder of the large army of unemployed youth from exploding.” He queried how the unemployed youths...