The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has described the agreement between the federal government and organised labour on the new minimum wage as national minimum wage, not binding on state governments. Kayode Fayemi, governor of Ekiti state who is chairman of the forum, said this on Monday while briefing reporters at the end of a meeting […]
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Some two hundred and twenty-eight inmates have escaped from a medium federal correctional centre (prison) in Koton Karfe in Kogi after some parts of it collapsed owing to heavy flooding. NAN quoted Jafar Ahmed, comptroller-general of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCS), as saying this while speaking with journalists in Koton Karfe on Monday. Ahmed said […]
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Are an undergraduate between the ages of 16-25? Then you can now bank for free with Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank). The leading, youth-focused, financial institution has announced that it will cover all charges on transfers, USSD transactions and bank alerts for holders of its GTCrea8 Account, a bespoke banking product for young undergraduates between the […]
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In the opening game of the day, Manchester City comfortably defeated Aston Villa 3-0 on Saturday in the Premier League at the Etihad Stadium. Raheem Sterling scored his seventh league goal of the season, with City turning on the style in the second half to cut Liverpool’s lead at the top of the table to […]
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Ever since MYLES released his debut single “TETE”, the song has been on the rise, the single hasgained massive airplays and surpassed the 500,000 streams mark across all platforms, makinghim one of the most-talked about promising acts. He makes a return with a new single titled “YES” a song carefully curated, produced anddelivered to meet […]
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American pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, is recalling batches of its Xalatan 0.005%w/v eye drops solution used in treating glaucoma. As stated in a notice sent to doctors, the company said the decision to recall was reached after some counterfeit products were found within the legitimate supply chain. “Please be advised that Pfizer is recalling, at the […]
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Mr. Kennedy Uzoka, the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Pan African financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has won the much coveted ‘BusinessDay’s Bank CEO’ of the year 2019 award. Uzoka emerged tops based on his sterling achievements since he assumed the position of Group CEO at UBA three years ago. Kennedy […]
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Adegboyega Adenekan, a former school supervisor at Chrisland Schools has been sentenced to 60 years imprisonment by an Ikeja domestic violence and sexual offences court. The presiding judge, Sybil Nwaka, handed down the sentence after convicting Adenekan of a lone-count charge of defiling a two-year-and-11-month-old pupil. Adenekan had pleaded not guilty to the charge the […]
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The controller general of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Ja’afaru Ahmed, says he has set up a panel to probe Ikoyi Prisons, now known as “Ikoyi Custodial Centre”, following an investigation by Fisayo Soyombo, an undercover journalist. Soyombo spent eight days as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison — where he documented experiences on “drug abuse, sodomy, […]
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United Bank for Africa Plc, UBA, the pan African financial institution with a network that spans 20 African countries, the United Kingdom, the USA and with presence in Paris, has announced impressive performance in its unaudited 2019 Third Quarter Financial Results, with significant growth in Gross Earnings, which rose to N428.22 billion, representing a 14.2 […]
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