Category: News

Retired Pope Benedict Warns Against Relaxing Priestly Celibacy Rules
January 13, 2020 No Responses

Retired Pope Benedict Warns Against Relaxing Priestly Celibacy Rules

Retired Pope Benedict XVI has issued a defence of priestly celibacy in the Catholic Church as his successor considers easing a ban on married men serving as priests. Pope Benedict made the appeal in a book co-authored with Cardinal Robert...
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Kano Approves N79m Counterpart Fund To Improve Healthcare Delivery
January 12, 2020 No Responses

Kano Approves N79m Counterpart Fund To Improve Healthcare Delivery

Kano State Government has approved N79 million as contribution for the implementation of 2019 Health Work Plan. The state Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, made this known on Saturday in Kano when he briefed newsmen on the outcome of...
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Igbinedion Varsity Matriculates 728
January 12, 2020 No Responses

Igbinedion Varsity Matriculates 728

Vice Chancellor, Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo, Prof. Lawrence Ezemonye, has urged students of the institution to be hardworking and diligent, and strive to contribute their own quota towards national development. Ezemonye stated this during the 21st matri...
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Parents, Candidates Commend JAMB For Suspending Use Of NIN For 2020 UTME
January 12, 2020 No Responses

Parents, Candidates Commend JAMB For Suspending Use Of NIN For 2020 UTME

Some parents and candidates on Saturday commended the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) for suspending the use of the National Identification Number (NIN) for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). They told the New Agency of Nig...
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SIFAX Pledges Export Support For Nigerian Farmers
January 11, 2020 No Responses

SIFAX Pledges Export Support For Nigerian Farmers

SIFAX Group has assured Nigerian farmers willing to export their agricultural produce of its readiness to support them. This pledge was made by the SIFAX Group management team at the just concluded Meet The Farmers Conference which was held in...
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Buhari Salutes Razaq Okoya At 80
January 11, 2020 No Responses

Buhari Salutes Razaq Okoya At 80

President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with Chairman, Eleganza Group of Companies, Chief Razaq Okoya, on his 80th birthday, congratulating him for resourcefulness in building a national brand that has long gone beyond the borders. The president’s congrat...
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Iran Admits It ‘Unintentionally’ Shot Down Ukrainian Plane
January 11, 2020 No Responses

Iran Admits It ‘Unintentionally’ Shot Down Ukrainian Plane

Iran’s military says it “unintentionally” shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet, Iran’s state TV reports. The statement, released on Saturday morning, said it had done so due to “human error”. Those responsible would be held a...
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NUJ Honours Egbemode, Olatunbosun, Others
January 11, 2020 No Responses

NUJ Honours Egbemode, Olatunbosun, Others

The Osun State  Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation,  Mrs Funke Egbemode, and Oyo State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Dr Wasiu Olatunbosun, on Friday bagged awards at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ)  Zo...
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Onne Customs Surpasses 2019 Revenue Target by 112%
January 10, 2020 No Responses

Onne Customs Surpasses 2019 Revenue Target by 112%

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Area II Command, Onne Port, Rivers State generated ₦107.3billion from duty paid on imported goods in 2019.A statement issued by the Public Relations Officer, Ifeoma Onuigbo Ojekwu, explained that the figure surpasses the an...
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FG Reconstitutes CAC Board
January 10, 2020 No Responses

FG Reconstitutes CAC Board

The Federal Government on Thursday reconstituted the new board of Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and appointed Mr Ademola Seriki as the board Chairman with effect from Jan. 7.A statement issued in Abuja by Mr Ibrahim Haruna, Deputy Director, Press of...
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Opinion: Extreme Events Are Reversing Development Goals
January 10, 2020 No Responses

Opinion: Extreme Events Are Reversing Development Goals

By Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth Secretary-General Cyclones in the Caribbean and Pacific, devastating bushfires in Australia, recurrent floods and droughts in Asia and Africa, increasingly bring tragic loss of life to our nations and communities, inflicting ...
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Customs Generates N1.3trillion In 2019
January 10, 2020 No Responses

Customs Generates N1.3trillion In 2019

Between January and December 2019, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) generated the sum of N1.3 trillion.  A statement issued by  Public Relations Officer, Joseph Attah, explained that the amount generated is over the target of  N937,286,121,586....
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Amotekun Not Regional Police, To Collaborate With All Security Agencies
January 10, 2020 No Responses

Amotekun Not Regional Police, To Collaborate With All Security Agencies

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has dispelled rumours making the rounds that the newly launched Western Nigeria Security Network code-named Operation Amotekun is a regional police. Fayemi who spoke in Ibadan at the launch of the security apparatus stat...
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Ecobank To Disburse N70b Agric Loan, Holds Special Summit In February
January 10, 2020 No Responses

Ecobank To Disburse N70b Agric Loan, Holds Special Summit In February

Ecobank Nigeria has announced an Agriculture Businesses Finance Scheme where it plans to disburse additional loan of N70 Billion for practitioners in different value chains of Agriculture within the next two years. This announcement is coming just as the bank....
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