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August 29, 2022 No Responses

First Bank Defeats Mountain Of Fire, Wins Crown Elite Basketball Championship

First Bank Basketball Club of Lagos defeated their city rivals, Mountain of Fire Miracles (MFM), 44-27 to win the 2022 Crown Elite Basketball Championship in Lagos. The team was made to work their socks off from the first quarter down...

August 28, 2022 No Responses

World Bank Engages GBV Service Providers In Kaduna

The Kaduna State Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE), a World Bank-supported project, has engaged Gender-Based Violence (GBV) service providers, to provide health and psychosocial services to adolescent survivors. The Pr...

August 28, 2022 No Responses

Mikano Motors, Durojaiye Relief Foundation Strengthen Road Safety Partnership

By citybusinessnews@yahoo.com — Durojaiye Relief Foundation (DRF) in Partnership with Mikano Motors, recently in Lagos State, organized a road safety campaign aimed at sensitizing motorists and pedestrians on road safety tips and culture. According ...

August 27, 2022 No Responses

Presco, GIZ, Others Back Edo Film Festival

Presco Plc, German Development Agency, The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) and Phoenix, among others have pledged support for Edo State International Film Festival (ESIFF) scheduled to hold between September 1st and Septembe...

August 27, 2022 No Responses

Esan Youths Protest Bad Road, Urge FG To Urgently Fix Benin-Ekpoma-Auchi Road

A group under the aegis of the Esan Liberation Movement (ELM) has called on the Federal Government to as a matter of urgency fix the abandoned portions of the Benin-Ekpoma-Auchi road.In a statement signed by Prosper Iyere, Leader of Esan...

August 27, 2022 No Responses

Mental Health: Jela’s Development Initiatives Trains Educationists

Jela’s Development Initiatives, JDI, a nonprofit organisation, supported by TY Danjuma Foundation, has organised a three-day mental health awareness programme for teachers, counsellors, and administrators across four notable public secondary schools in the F...

August 27, 2022 No Responses

CBN Releases $265m To Settle Outstanding Ticket Sales

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),on Friday, released the sum of 265 million dollars to airlines operating in the country to settle outstanding ticket sales. According to a statement issued by the Director, Corporate Communications Department of CBN, Mr Osita....

August 26, 2022 No Responses

Manufacturers Task CBN On FOREX Allocation

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to allocate more FOREX to manufacturers to allow for the importation of raw materials and machinery. Edo/Delta branch chairman of MAN, Dr Okwara Udensi, made th...

August 25, 2022 No Responses

FEC Approves N43.6b For Road Projects In Northeast

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N43.6 billion for the construction and reconstruction of roads in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Gombe and Bauchi States. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq...

August 25, 2022 No Responses

Buhari Celebrates Sultan Of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III At 66

President Muhammadu Buhari congratulated the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar 111, on his 66th birthday, Aug. 24. In a congratulatory message issued by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, on Wednesday in Abuja, the president joined family members, friends and ...

August 25, 2022 No Responses

FG, States, LGCs Share N954.085b

The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), has shared N954.085 billion with the three tiers of government, as federation allocation for July. This is according to a statement signed by Mr Phil Abiamuwe-Mowete, the Director (Information/Press) on&nbs...

August 24, 2022 No Responses

Nigeria Exports $2.6b Non-Oil Products In Six Months

Nigeria exported over 4. 146 million metric tonnes of non-oil products, worth $2.593 billion from January to June 2022, the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), disclosed on Tuesday. Presenting the first half year 2022 progress report to Journ...

August 24, 2022 No Responses

Nigeria Decries Abuse Of Expatriate Quota Policy

The Minister of Interior, Alhaji Rauf Aregbesola has decried the abuses and gross violations of Nigeria’s expatriate quota policy by foreigners and some organisations in the country. Aregbesola condemned the practice on Tuesday in Abuja at the re-inaug...

August 24, 2022 No Responses

Man Drags Mother-In-Law To Court Over Wife’s Refusal To Return Home

A businessman, Isma’il Ibrahim, on Tuesday dragged one Zainab Muhammad, his mother-in-law, to a Shari’a Court at Rigasa Kaduna, for allegedly refusing to allow his wife to return to her matrimonial home. The complainant, a Resident at Police Station road...