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January 6, 2017 2 Responses

Firm unveils N14.5m Insurance cover for Journalists

FBN Insurance Limited has provided a Group Family Shield cover valued at N14.5m for the members of the National Association of Insurance and Pension Correspondents (NAIPCO). Speaking during official presentation of the policy certificate to the leadership of NAIPCO in...

January 6, 2017 No Responses

Kia releases first images of all-new Picanto

Kia Motors has released images of the all-new Picanto, the third-generation of one of Kia’s global best-selling cars. Created by Kia’s design centres in Namyang, Korea and Frankfurt, Germany, the new Picanto according to its manufacturers brings youthful a...

January 4, 2017 No Responses

Janet Jackson, 50, gives birth to a boy

(BBC) Singer Janet Jackson has at the age of 50 given birth to her first child, a baby boy, her publicist has confirmed. A statement said the musician and her Qatari businessman husband, Wissam Al Mana, were “thrilled” to welcome...

January 3, 2017 No Responses

FG begins payment of N5,000 to poorest, vulnerable Nigerians

As part of its determined efforts to touch the lives of Nigerians positively, the Federal Government has commenced payment of N5, 000 monthly stipends to the poorest and the most vulnerable in the country through the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT)...

January 3, 2017 No Responses

Obiang, Equatorial Guinea’s VP on trial in France

(BBC) Equatorial Guinea’s flamboyant vice-president has gone trial in absentia in France on charges of corruption after he failed to stop the landmark case. Teodorin Obiang Nguema is accused of buying a mansion and sports cars in France with a...

January 3, 2017 No Responses

Volkswagen dethrones Volvo as best-selling car in Sweden

Sweden’s best-selling car in 2016 was not a Volvo – the first year that has happened in more than half a century. Instead the Volkswagen Golf topped sales, according to the country’s carmakers association. The Golf made up 5.9% of...

January 1, 2017 No Responses

Buhari’s 2017 message to Nigerians

I am happy to welcome you to the beginning of a New Year in our beloved country Nigeria. I felicitate with you today at a time when our nation is witnessing a new and impressive turnaround in our security and...

December 31, 2016 No Responses

Lagos issues N47billion bond

Lagos State has issued N47 billion Series 1 Bond maturing in December, 2023 under its N500 billion Third Debt Issuance Programme. Speaking during the signing ceremony held at the Lagos House, Ikeja,on Friday, the State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode explained that...

December 31, 2016 No Responses

Mali sends back migrants deported by France

(BBC) Mali has sent back two people who were deported from France on the same planes they arrived on, questioning whether they were even Malian citizens. The pair were flown to Bamako using European travel permits or “laissez-passer”, not passports...

December 31, 2016 No Responses

‘Ambassador killed by wife’s lover’

(AP) Police in Brazil believe that Greece’s ambassador to the country was killed by his wife’s lover under her orders in a house in the Rio area and have detained three suspects, authorities said Friday. Ambassador Kyriakos Amiridis went missing...

December 30, 2016 No Responses

‘FG to revamp, make key festivals attractive’

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the Federal Government is working with the private sector to make major festivals in the country attractive to domestic and foreign tourists. He made the pledge in Offa, Kwara State, at.....

December 30, 2016 No Responses

‘No plastic rice in Nigeria’

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has explained that laboratory result of the suspected fake rice showed that the product was not plastic but rice contaminated with micro organisms. The Acting Director General, NAFDAC, Y...

December 30, 2016 No Responses

Russia vows response to diplomat expulsion from US

Russia has promised to respond to the expulsion of 35 of its diplomats from Washington, amid a bitter dispute over alleged Russian interference in the recent US presidential election. A spokesman for President Vladimir Putin said the Kremlin’s reaction w...

December 29, 2016 No Responses

UK funds drone-based blood deliveries

(BBC) By Leo Kelion Technology desk editor The UK government is to fund a trial of drone-based deliveries of blood and other medical supplies in Tanzania. The goal is to radically reduce the amount of time it takes to send...