AGIRI: Rivers community festival that cures people of strange ailments
IT was a rapturous affair at Bille Kingdom, Degema Local Government Area, Rivers State, recently, as citizens adorning stunning cultural regalia trooped out en masse to mark this year’s multi-million naira Agiri festival, their most revered convention. As tradition demands, visitors and security escorts were given George wrapper and other traditional attires to robe themselves at the festival that abolishes diseases, promotes peace and unity.
Skye Bank rewards customers today
Skye Bank Plc, will today reward its customers with brand new car, N1 million as well as cash and consolation prizes to close its 90-days “Receive and Win” promotion in Lagos.
Mortuary attendant remanded in prison for beheading corpse
An Iyaganku magistrate’s court, sitting in Ibadan, has remanded a 57-year-old mortuary attendant, Muritala Raimi, who works at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, in Agodi Prison, for allegedly stealing a human skull from his workplace.
“Championship games, affirm govt. commitment to stamp out insurgency”
—Never again will terrorists take over and occupy any part of Nigeria’s territory, President Muhammadu Buhari vowed in Sambisa Forest, yesterday.
BDCs reluctant to buy dollars as CBN pegs FX rate for invisibles at N360/$, injects $185m
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, directed banks to sell dollars for invisible transactions such as personal travel allowance, business travel allowance, school fees and others at N360 per dollar.
Anambra 2017: NARD President condemns attacks on Nwoye
The President of the National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, Dr. John Onyebueze, has tasked politicians in Anambra State to move away from mounting campaigns of calumny against doctors and other rivals in the Anambra governorship contest.
Excitement, as ex-envoy builds new city for Bakassi refugees
SINCE the expulsion of the people of Bakassi by Cameroon from their ancestral home in 2010, following the transfer of the Peninsula to the nation’s neighbour, a development that automatically turned them into internally displaced persons, the unfortunate locals have been living pathetically in makeshift houses at the camp allocated to them at Ekpri Ikang, Akpabuyo Local Government Area.
Ambode recruits 5,700 neighbourhood corps officials, deploys 4,554 vehicles
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State yesterday launched the re-branded Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps, with a pledge that the security of lives and property in the state is now non-negotiable.
Banks lend 0.1% of total credit to MSMEs
TOTAL loans granted by banks to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria amounted to just over 0.1 percent of total banks’ credits to the private sector over the past five years.
Imo free education beneficiaries lament extortion
Beneficiaries of the free education policy of Imo State government at the tertiary level have pleaded with Governor Rochas Okorocha to launch investigation into the alleged extortion by community leaders expected to append their signatures in the free education form.
How telecoms firm rescued 2 girls
Two little girls suffering from a congenital heart condition, and the other, an orphan, a victim of HIV/AIDS, weekend, received a Touching Lives relief package from Airtel
