Abuja, Jan. 8, 2022 (NAN) Champions of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) will return home with prize money of five million U.S. dollars (about N2.8 billion). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the winners’ prize money was increased from 4.5 million dollars, representing an increase of about 11 percent. The decision Read More…
Residents of Magodo and other stakeholders have been assured of an amicable settlement of the land dispute by the Lagos State Government. Speaking on This Morning programme on TVC, the Lagos State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Gbenga Omotoso, said the recent visit of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to the Estate resulted in a meeting of all Read More…
Lagos State Government has earmarked 10 per cent of its year 2022 Budget to the education sector to adequately groom the youths towards making the desired impact and contributing to the progress and future development of the State. The State Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Mr. Samuel Egube, disclosed this during the State Budget Read More…
Lagos, Jan. 7, 2022 (NAN) The bulls sustained trading on the nation’s bourse on Friday with the market capitalisation extending growth by N130 billion. Specifically, the market capitalisation which opened at N23.497 trillion rose by N130 billion to close at N23.627 trillion. Also, the All-Share Index improved by 246.48 points or 0.57 per cent to Read More…
Sango-Ota (Ogun), Jan. 7, 2022 (NAN) A former Director of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr Titus Okunroumu, has called on the Federal Government to intensify efforts at resuscitating the nation’s refineries to boost the economy. Okunroumu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Sang-Ota, Ogun, that most of the refineries were Read More…
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Jan 7 (Reuters) – Armed bandits have killed at least 30 people in Nigeria’s Zamfara State, raiding several villages in a region that has been in a security crisis for more than two years, residents and security sources said on Friday. There have been a series of attacks in northwest Nigeria, which has Read More…
Jan 7 (Reuters) – A Georgia judge sentenced Travis McMichael and his father Gregory McMichael on Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for what he called the “chilling” 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man running through their mostly white neighborhood in the southern U.S. state. Judge Timothy Walmsley also Read More…
KHARTOUM, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Security forces shot dead three protesters and fired tear gas in Sudan on Thursday as crowds thronged the capital Khartoum and other cities in more anti-military rallies, medics and Reuters witnesses said. At least 60 people have died and many more have been wounded in crackdowns on demonstrations since a Read More…
ALMATY, Jan 7 (Reuters) – Security forces appeared to have reclaimed the streets of Kazakhstan’s main city on Friday after days of violence, and the Russian-backed president said he had ordered his troops to shoot to kill to put down a countrywide uprising. A day after Moscow sent paratroopers to help crush the insurrection, police Read More…
NAIROBI, Jan 7 (Reuters) – An air strike hit a refugee camp in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region, killing three Eritrean refugees, including two children, the United Nations said on Thursday. The strike on Wednesday hit Mai Aini refugee camp near the southern Tigrayan town of Mai Tsebri, the United Nations said. “Three Eritrean refugees, two Read More…