To reaffirm its status as the biggest cement producer in Africa, Dangote Cement has set the pace with the exportation of 27,800 metric tonnes of clinker to a neighbouring African country. With this historic maiden voyage from its Export Terminal located in Apapa Port, Lagos weekend, Dangote has gradually made Nigeria, which until recently was one of the world’s largest ...

The Federal Government of Nigeria through the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Saturday issued new guidelines for the reopening of religious centres across the country. This comes after the Federal Government lifted the ban on religious and other public gatherings to check the spread of COVID-19. In addition to its earlier restrictions of children and people aged 60 and abovefrom religious gatherings, it has ...

A breakaway faction of Boko Haram has released a video showing the execution of a soldier and a police officer. In the video, members of ISWAP, the breakaway Boko Haram faction, executed the two security personnel. In the 49 seconds video, the two security personnel who were abducted last week while travelling between Maiduguri and Monguno introduced themselves after which they were summarily shot dead. According to the ...

Aisha Buhari, Sabiu ‘Tunde’ Yusuf and President Buhari The power tussle which has resulted to physical assault at the Nigerian presidential villa between the wife of the President, Aisha Buhari and Sabiu ‘Tunde’ Yusuf, the President’s influential Private Secretary and favourite nephew, is said to be getting messier as the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ignored the demand by the first lady to release her aides who ...

Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has described President Muhammadu Buhari as unfit to occupy the office of a president. Omokri lamented that President Buhari cannot govern his own home, least of all a nation. The former presidential aide was reacting to reports of gunshots heard in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Shots were allegedly fired by an ...

Mele Kyari, the group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), says the country is working on building a condensate refinery towards the goal of self-sufficiency in refined petroleum products. Speaking on Friday at a virtual conference organised by Atlantic Council, Kyari said the corporation aims to have a total refinery capacity of 200,000 barrels per day. The GMD ...

First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s leading financial inclusion services provider on Thursday, 11 June 2020, presented 20,000 units of e-learning devices to the Lagos State government at the State House in Marina, Lagos. The devices are planned for distribution to school children. With the gesture, the Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu said the State had found a “real development ...

Access Bank Plc has unveiled Access9ijaKids, a 12-week eLearning programme aimed at improving the intelligence quotients, financial literacy and civic knowledge of primary school children. The programme is part of the bank’s commitment in supporting the educational sector, especially during the COVID-19 era. The programmme, which employs the use of gamified technology is being executed in partnership with 9ija Kids, ...

The Screening Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has disqualified Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, from contesting in the party’s governorship primary election scheduled for June 22, 2020. The committee chairman, Prof. Jonathan Ayuba, made the disclosure in a press conference on Friday afternoon. He said the governor did not present his Higher School Leaving Certificate. Ayuba noted that ...

Nigeria’s commercial lender, Unity Bank Plc, has declared gross earnings of N44.59 billion for 2019 financial year, continuing a path to strong growth started in 2018 financial year, after the bank took bold corporate action to clean up its balance sheet in 2017. The Bank has also posted PBT of N550m in its Q1, 2020 result released alongside with the ...