NGO urges rich Nigerians to emulate Dangote in funding immunisation programme
March 27, 2018 Community Health and Research Initiative (CHR), an NGO, has appealed to rich Nigerians to emulate Alhaji Aliko Dangote by committing their resources toward the development of child…
MTN set to go public in Ghana ahead of Nigeria in record IPO
A record wave of stock is heading for Ghana’s market as MTN Group Ltd. is said to prepare to sell a chunk of its local unit to investors for about…
NAFDAC confiscates N5million expired drugs from Ariaria Market
March 27, 2018 The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has confiscated expired drugs worth over N5 million from a drug dealer in Ariaria Market, Aba,…
Prisoner docked for allegedly defrauding Nigerian Navy of N69.6m
An inmate at the Kirikiri Prisons in Lagos, Oladipo Adedokun, was on Tuesday brought before an Ikeja Special Offences Court EFCC for allegedly defrauding the Nigerian Navy of N69.6 million….
Mubi to get approval for free trade zone soon – Governor Bindow
March 27, 2018 Governor Mohammed Bindow of Adamawa said Mubi would soon be granted approval by the Federal Government to establish a Free Trade Zone (FTZ). Bindow gave the hint,…
Buhari signs MoU with Switzerland to ease return of looted assets
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Swiss government and International Development Association on the Return, Monitoring and Management of Illegally-Acquired Assets Confiscated by Switzerland….
Jukuns demand Commission of Inquiry into Army’s atrocities, back Dunjuma
Socio-cultural organisation of Jukun people, Jukun Development Association of Nigeria (JDAN) has thrown its weight behind its elder kinsman General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (rtd), who at the weekend, called on…
Nima Elbagir of CNN to Keynote African Women in the Media 2018 Conference
CNN’s Senior International Correspondent, Nima Elbagir, is set to be the Keynote Speaker of the two-day AWiM18 conference; the largest gathering of female African content producers from all over the…
After his death, Russian media exposes Mavrodi’s dirty past
One of Russia’s most famous crooks, Sergei Mavrodi, died of a heart attack on Sunday at the age of 62. A symbol of the “Wild 90s” which followed the Soviet…
Facebook shares dip as U.S. regulator announces probe, Zuckerberg’s finances shrink
Facebook Inc shares fell to 6.5 per cent on Monday after United States-consumer-protection-regulator said it was investigating how the social-network allowed data of 50 million users to get into the…
