Food: Agric firm urges govt to attract more investments in mechanisation
…distributes 160 three-wheeler tractors to 160 coops …as NCAM decries 6 tractors per 10,000 hectares By Gabriel Ewepu ABUJA – AS the quest for food production remains in the front burner, an agribusiness mechanisation firm, TracTrac Mechanization Services Limited, has called on the government to make agricultural mechanization attractive to investors as the sector lacks […]
Video: Pastor’s iPhone snatched on London street during Facebook Live prayer
A pair of thieves were caught on camera stealing Pastor Isaac Anderson’s phone while he conducted a Facebook Live prayer session in London.
Tinubu warns Nigerian pilgrims to Israel, Jordan against abscondment
— Flags off 2025 NPC delayed Easter pilgrimage By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA —-PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has warned Nigerians going for pilgrimage in Israel and Jordan against aboscondment, saying there is no country like Nigeria. The President gave the warning when he officially flagged off the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission’s, NCPC delayed Easter Pilgrimage exercise to […]
Equities market recoups losses, investors gain N279bn
The stock market reversed losses by 0.31 per cent on Thursday, recording N279 billion gain for investors.
Technology can’t replace teachers, but enhance transformation – TETFund Scribe
Shina Abubakar, Osogbo OSOGBO – The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund TETFund, Architect Sonny Echonno has disclosed that technology, as good as it is, cannot replace great teachers but could be a great transformational tool. Delivering the Lecture at the Osun State University 15th Convocation Lecture, titled, Digital Transformation in Higher Education; Building Skills […]
Man United agree deal to sign midfielder Cristian Orozco
Manchester United have reached an agreement to sign teenage midfielder Cristian Orozco.
Economic growth: We won’t leave any woman behind – Gov Adeleke
By Shina Abubakar, Osogbo Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has disclosed that no woman in the state would be left behind in his administration’s strive to ensure inclusive economic growth. This is as the Springtime Development Foundation, an initiative of Dr Deji Adeleke trained 500 women from the state on organic poultry home farming. Speaking […]
Cooking gas price decline 21.42% to N16, 195.07 – NBS
The national average retail price of refilling a 12.5kg cylinder of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, otherwise known as cooking gas has dropped by 21.42 percent on a month-on-month, MoM basis, to N16,195.07 in August, 2025 from N20,609.48 in July.
Saudi freezes Riyadh rents for five years
Saudi authorities announced on Thursday a five-year freeze on rent for residential and commercial properties in Riyadh, where demand for housing has soared as the kingdom’s ambitious megaprojects draw workers to the city.
‘We live with the dead’: Displaced Gazans shelter in cemetery
Three children play with sand and pebbles among the tombstones in a southern Gaza cemetery, while a teenage boy, barefoot, carries two buckets of water through the graveyard before vanishing into a tent.
Afenifere, DAWN commission set for Southwest summit in Akure
The pan-Yoruba sociopolitical organisation, Afenifere, in partnership with the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission, has announced a two-day regional stakeholders’ summit scheduled for October 9–10 in Akure, Ondo State.
