Blind 3yr-old girl seeks N0.6m for heart surgery
Christabel Oluchi Nwaogu, a 3-year old girl that was born blind is in urgent need of a life-saving correction surgery for a hole-in-the-heart. Several years of effort by her parents to find lasting solution has ended in futility. A recent visit to Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, revealed that her suffering is as a result of the hole in her heart which predisposes her to several health challenges.
Nnewi on fire again, fuel station razed
A popular Petrol Station, Organizer Filling station located at Amuko Junction, Nnewichi Nnewi Anambra State, Monday was up in flames.
According to reports, a tanker dispensing fuel and a car were destroyed in the inferno.
Naira weakens against dollar at parallel market
The Naira on Monday depreciated by 0.8 per cent to exchange at N265 to the dollar at the parallel market.
No plans to sack workers in Ondo – Mimiko
Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko on Monday said there are no plans to sack workers in the state in spite of the present economic challenges facing Nigeria.
EPA: $8.94bn development package tears ECOWAS apart
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has been divided over the $8.94 billion European Union’s Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). EPA is a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) designed to create free trade area between the EU and African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries in which duties on goods imported and exported between the parties are reduced and eventually removed.
Banking blues in 2016
When oil companies fail to pay, bankers are in a fix. But, not just bankers; we are all in a fix. Shareholders of Nigerian banks, already waving off a bad 2015, will again have to endure two economic woes – low or no dividends and plummeting share prices. Currently, only two banks shares are above N15 per share: ECOBANK and GTB. None of the others is above N6 per share.
