United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has rewarded a total of 20 kids with N200,000 each as scholarship grants in its just concluded Kiddies and Teens Draw, which held in Lagos on Thursday. The winners had qualified to win in…
The Association of Corporate Affairs Managers of Banks (ACAMB) has stressed the need for active and synergistic relationship between the banking and private sector for economic growth and development. ACAMB said this in a communique issued at the end of…
A 35-year-old businessman, Gabriel Achon, on Thursday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly obtaining N3. 17million from one Mr Erhire Eghifo on false pretences. The defendant, who resides at No. 5, Adewumi Close, Ikosi, Ketu, Lagos, is being…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) collected more than N99.7 million as revenue in Katsina State in July.It also seized smuggled goods worth more than N73.6 million. The Area Controller in the state, Mr Dalha Wada-Chedi told journalists on Thursday in…
A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Makurdi on Thursday remanded three farmers at the Correctional Service Centre, Makurdi for allegedly trading in dangerous weapons and terrorising Benue people. The farmers, Terhide Iordye, Emmanuel Kuhwa and Titus Ikyor who are of various…
… Calls for prompt intelligence sharing in combating oil theft Barth Ndubuwah, Port Harcourt The General Officer Commanding 6 Division Nigerian Army Port Harcourt, Major General OO Oloyede has affirmed the readiness of the Nigerian Army to synergize with the…
Ondo State Government on Thursday in Akure inaugurated a strategy tagged ‘Scale 3.02 to accelerate integrated COVID-19 vaccination’ in the state. Speaking during the ceremony, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr Banji Ajaka, said that COVID-19 remained a public health…
Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, on Thursday urged stakeholders to engage government towards formulating policies that would promote breastfeeding as a practice in the country. Buhari made the call at the commemoration of World Breastfeeding Week with theme,…
…As health stakeholders launch biorepository laboratory Abimbola Abatta The upgraded biorepository laboratory at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)’s Central Public Health Laboratory in Yaba, Lagos was commissioned on Thursday. Nigerian NewsDirect reports that with support from the U.S.…
The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) says Nigeria’s crude oil production increased to an average of 1.183 million barrels per day (bpd) in July 2022. OPEC made this known in its Oil Market Report for August 2022, which…
