THIRD MAINLAND BRIDGE: LASG announces 4 day closure, calls for understanding
THE Lagos State Government has said that the Third Mainland Bridge will be temporarily shut for four days beginning from midnight of August 23 to midnight of August 26, 2018 to allow for investigative maintenance test to be carried before embarking on proper repairs in future.
Another woman collapses, dies in Delta Church
Sapele—Barely a month after a popular trader in Sapele, Delta State, was said to have collapsed in a Pentecostal church and died, another woman, Mrs Roona Ayomanor, the wife of former Community Liaison Officer an oil company, Mr. Churchill Ayomanor, yesterday, gave up the ghost after she slumped in the same Church.
Judegment Day! Nigeria may escape FIFA hammer
As the deadline given by the Federation of International Football Association, FIFA, to Nigeria to resolve the leadership crisis rocking the Nigeria Football Federation to avoid a ban ends today, high level talks have been going on between the federal government and the world football governing body.
IPOB threatens uprising over alleged detention of Imo women
AWKA—INDIGENOUS People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday gave security operatives the close of business today to release all the Imo State women allegedly arrested, during their peaceful protest, threatening to cause civil uprising if its demand was not met.
Funding, bane of engineering in Nigeria — Afe Babalola
THE founder of Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti, Aare Afe Babalola has identified inadequate funding and obsolete curricular as the major problem confronting engineering education in the country.
700 Nigerians drown in Mediterranean Sea
A group, on the platform of Migration Enlightenment Project Nigeria, MEPN, has raised the alarm that over 700 Nigerians died in the Mediterranean Sea while migrating illegally in the last six months.
Saraki not cause of your failure, Senators tell APC
Chairman, Senate Committee on Navy, Senator Isah Misau, and his counterpart in the Committee on Banking, Finance and Other Financial Insitutions, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim, have advised All Progressives Congress, APC, and its leaders to desist from looking for scapegoats for the failure to fulfill their promises to the electorate by constantly blaming Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki.
2019 poll: No going back on zoning in Ogun — APC Chair
CHAIRMAN, Ogun State All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Derin Adebiyi, has said the party was not going back on its decision to cede its governorship ticket in the coming election in the state to Ogun West.
Optimism for revived FGN bonds, TBs trading as N364bn hit interbank
The financial markets ended last week with some optimism of revived demand for FGN bonds and treasury bills in the secondary market this week, anchored on expectation of increased excess liquidity in the interbank money market due to inflow of N364 billion from maturing treasury bills.
‘3,000 have died in Zamfara attacks’
The ongoing banditry in Zamfara State has claimed over 3,000 lives in the past few years, an official has said.
Diamond Bank supports 5000 SMEs with N20bn loan in 2018
By Babajide Komolafe Diamond Bank has supported 5000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with over N20 billion worth of credit facilities in 2018. Head, Emerging Market Businesses, Diamond Bank, Mrs Ayodele Olojede, disclosed this during an interview withFinancial Vanguard, saying this is in addition to various programmes and services introduced by the bank to support […]
