By Uchenna Eletuo Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has expressed confidence on the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) over its prompt response to challenges at the tertiary entrance examination. MURIC Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, said this in when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos. Akintola said the examination was […]
Billionaire Warren Buffett has donated another $4.1bn (£2.9bn) worth of Berkshire Hathaway shares to charity. Regarded as the world’s most successful investor, the Berkshire Hathaway chairman has given away huge sums of his wealth to charity. In a statement, he wrote: “Society has a use for my money; I don’t.” Mr Buffett also announced his […]
By Alex Enebeli Enugu State Government has declared Saturday, June 26 for a statewide environmental sanitation. The Managing Director of the Waste Management Authority (ESWAMA), Mrs Amaka Anajemba, announced this on Wednesday in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu. Anajemba stated that the exercise holds from 6 a.m. […]
International non-government organisation, WaterAid, has said that in order for Lagos State to meet its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets on universal access to water, an annual sector spending of ₦300billion would have to be committed to the state. Country Director, Evelyn Mere said this on Wednesday at the second edition of the annual International […]
A Pentagon translator was sentenced Wednesday to 23 years in prison for passing the names of U.S. informants in Iraq to a person linked to Lebanon’s powerful Shiite movement Hezbollah. Mariam Thompson, 62, had admitted transmitting the classified information to a Lebanese national in hopes that it would be passed on to the group designated […]
More than five million people became millionaires across the world in 2020 despite economic damage from the Covid-19 pandemic. While many poor people became poorer, the number of millionaires increased by 5.2 million to 56.1 million globally, Credit Suisse research found. In 2020, more than 1% of adults worldwide were millionaires for the first time. […]
By Christian Ogbonna Schools and businesses were shut in Ebonyi on Wednesday in compliance to the state Government declaration of public holiday in honour of the two civil commissioners in the state that died. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Governor David Umahi had on Tuesday declared Wednesday a state public holiday in […]
Cost pressures on UK firms have gone up at a record level, suggesting that the current surge in consumer prices may be more than just a blip. A closely watched survey, produced by IHS Markit/CIPS, showed input costs rose at the fastest rate for 13 years. And inflation of prices charged by firms hit its […]
The Lagos State Head of Service, Hakeem Muri-Okunola on Tuesday told the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality other related abuses that injuries recorded in the aftermath of the Lekki shooting were predominantly fractures, machete wounds, and minor cuts. He said the #EndSARS protest was hijacked by hoodlums who infiltrated the ranks of the […]
By Deborah Akpede 26-year-old businesswoman, Oluwaseun Afolabi, who allegedly obtained three million naira under false pretences, on Wednesday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court. The defendant, who resides at Gbagada, Lagos State, appeared before Magistrate O. A Odubayo on a two-count charge of stealing and obtaining money under false pretences. Afolabi, however, denied committing the […]
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