Women In Anambra Top List Of Contraceptives Users 

At 27.4 per cent, Anambra has topped the list of states where married women use traditional contraceptives to control childbirth with Yobe having the lowest figure at 0.3 per cent.  The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) made the disclosure in...
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L-R:Head Economic Team, British High Commission Nigeria Dr Gail Warrander, Deputy High Commissioner British Embassy to Nigeria Mr Ben Llewellyn-Jones,  Director General  Securities and Exchange Commission   Mr Lamido Yuguda, Membe...
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CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF THE LOGOS ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE COMMUNIQUE

CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF THE LOGOS ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE COMMUNIQUE

A COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF THE LAGOS ECCCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE AT THE END OF THEIR FIRST MEETING OF THE YEAR 2022 HELD AT ST. AGNES CATHOLIC CHURCH, MARYLAND, LAGOS ON THURSDAY, 27TH JANUARY 2022 1. Preamble We, the...
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Dana Air To Recruit More NigerianPilots 

Dana Air To Recruit More NigerianPilots 

Dana Air has decorated a new captain on its Boeing 737 aircraft, Captain Andrew Igbe-Arase in Lagos; stating that the airline will continue to invest in training and re-training of pilots having commenced the recruitment of more qualified Nigeri...
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Senegal Beat Egypt To Claim First AFCON Title

Senegal Beat Egypt To Claim First AFCON Title

Sadio Mane made up for an earlier penalty kick miss with the decisive kick on Sunday in Yaounde as Senegal claimed their first Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) title.  They claimed the title with a 4-2 penalty kick shootout win over Egypt...
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CBN, RIFAN Empower 25, 000 Farmers In Gombe

CBN, RIFAN Empower 25, 000 Farmers In Gombe

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), in collaboration with Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), Gombe State chapter has launched the 2021/2022 inputs distribution for dry season farming.  The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the ceremony un...
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Sonny Okosun’s Father Dies At 110

Sonny Okosun’s Father Dies At 110

Stella Okosun, younger sister to late, legendary Nigerian musician, Sonny Okosun, on Saturday announced the death of her father, Pa Duke Akhere Okosun.  Stella, a certified nurse and the brain behind the United States Mission Health International Foundati...
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Bayern Munich Extend Bundesliga Lead To 9 Points

Bayern Munich Extend Bundesliga Lead To 9 Points

Bayern Munich had to fight hard for a 3-2 win against RB Leipzig on Saturday to extend their 2021/2022 Bundesliga lead over Borussia Dortmund to nine points.  Thomas Müller broke the deadlock in the Allianz Arena in the 12th minute,...
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Oil Hits Seven-Year High

Oil Hits Seven-Year High

Oil prices surged to seven-year highs on Friday, extending their rally into a seventh week on ongoing worries about supply disruptions fueled by frigid U.S. weather and ongoing political turmoil among major world producers.Reuters reports that Brent ...
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Buhari Congratulates Amaechi On Daura Chieftaincy Title

Buhari Congratulates Amaechi On Daura Chieftaincy Title

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, on the conferment of the title of “Dan Amana,” (the trusted one) on him by the Daura Emirate Council.  The president in a congratulatory message issued by one...
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Air Peace To Resume Direct Flights To Dubai March 1  

Air Peace To Resume Direct Flights To Dubai March 1  

Air Peace has concluded plans to resume direct scheduled flights to Dubai, United Arab Emirates on March 1,2022.  The airline’s spokesperson, Mr Stanley Olisa, confirmed the development in a statement on Friday in Lagos.  Olisa disclosed that the a...
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Paucity Of Fund May Stall Kano-Kaduna Rail Project

Paucity Of Fund May Stall Kano-Kaduna Rail Project

Lack of adequate funding may slow down the pace of work and completion of the Kano-Kaduna railway project,  Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has said  Amaechi made this known while inspecting work on the project in Kano on Friday....
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Airtel Africa Boosts Nine Months Revenue By 21.7%  

Airtel Africa Boosts Nine Months Revenue By 21.7%  

For the nine months ended December 31, 2021, Airtel Africa Plc declared revenue growth of $3.49 million,  representing a growth of 21.7 per cent when compared with $2.87 million recorded in the comparative period of 2020.  A statement issued by ...
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ExxonMobil Eyes More Long-Term Gas Supply Deals With India

ExxonMobil Eyes More Long-Term Gas Supply Deals With India

Global energy major ExxonMobil is looking at signing more long-term gas sales deals with India as rising spot prices have added to the appeal of longer duration contracts.“We’re certainly happy to work with our friends and partners in India to ...
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