Reading Time: 3 minutes Image Credits: Business Insider, REUTERS/Charles Platiau. The Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms Abisola Olusanya, on Saturday, described digitisation as critical for the country to attain its food security needs. Olusanya, who said this at the launch of a book entitled: “The Rise of Digital Agriculture,” which held at the Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos, added Read More…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Nigeria sets a new daily record of 1,883 Lagos State registered the highest number of COVID-19 infections nationwide on Saturday with 1,040 infections, taking the total number of infected people in the state to 48,919. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 1,883 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) infections, bringing the total number Read More…
Reading Time: 2 minutes In a unique public/private partnership, MTN, Africa’s leading mobile network, has announced a donation of US$25 million to support the African Union’s COVID-19 vaccination programme. The donation will help secure up to seven million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for health workers across the continent, which will contribute to the vaccination initiative of the Africa Centres for Read More…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Image Credits: Boxing247. Former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson is really looking forward to the potential full division unification between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury. The retired boxer is backing Fury to win. As the story goes, Fury’s father was a big fan of Tyson and named him after the Hall of Famer. During his breakdown Read More…
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Image Credits: Action Images/REUTERS/John Sibley . Arsenal are plotting a late move for Crystal Palace defender Patrick van Aanholt before the January transfer window closes. The Gunner have already signed Martin Odegaard and Mat Ryan on loan during the winter window but still have until 11pm on February 1 to seal a third signing. Cover Read More…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Image Credits: Sebastian Widmann/Getty Images. “Girls are pearls, ladies are rubies, mothers are moulders, and women are wonderful”, says Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha of the female gender. Angela Dorothea Merkel (Nee Kasner) is all these and more. The most powerful woman in Europe who takes a glorious bow out of office soon has taught the world Read More…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Text: Luke 1:5-25 Picture this: You and your spouse are very old. Possibly in your 70s. Both from a priestly family. You have carefully obeyed all of God’s commands and regulations all your life. And in God’s eyes, you are a righteous couple. And you are childless. Because the wife is unable to conceive. Then Read More…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Image Credits: NAN Photo. In picture above: (1st Left) Representative of the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Bashir Nura Alkali, (2nd Left) The Deputy Governor, Lagos State, Dr. Kadiri Obafemi Hamzat, (3rd Left) Commissioner, Ministry of Wealth Creation and Employment, Mrs Yetunde Arobieke, (1st Right) Read More…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Image Credits: The Africa Report. Bloomberg’s 2020 full-year Capital Markets League Tables has ranked African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) Africa’s number one Mandated Lead Arranger (MLA) in sub-Saharan Africa. The bank made this known in a statement it issued on Friday in Cairo. According to the statement, the bank is delighted to have surpassed 2019’s second Read More…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) market indices on Friday advanced further by 0.58 per cent following gains made by some blue chip companies. Specifically, the NSE All-Share Index rose by 243.25 points or 0.58 per cent to close at 42,412.66 from 42,169.41 posted on Thursday. Similarly, the market capitalisation inched higher by N127 billion or Read More…
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