Nigeria will, on March 3, 2018, host the FIFA World Cup Trophy. This was confirmed by Mohammed Sanusi, Nigeria Football Federation’s General Secretary. He said the world governing body had listed Nigeria as one of the countries the trophy will visit as part of the FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour. The tour will hold from […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has written a letter to the national assembly (NASS), seeking to present the estimates of the 2018 budget. Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives, read the letter at plenary on Thursday. Buhari requested to present the budget to a joint session of the national assembly at 2pm on Tuesday. Udoma […]
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Worried by the dangers of improperly registered, unregistered and pre-registered Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has set up a 12-member committee to tackle the problem. The commission said the “menace will no longer be tolerated”. Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the NCC, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta declared this on Monday […]
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Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Thursday announced a new chief financial officer (CFO) to be in charge of one of Asia’s biggest corporate cash piles. It said it would create a body within the firm to coordinate with tech affiliates. The announcement follows the appointment of a new generation of top managers this week. The […]
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Layvin Kurzawa scored an unlikely hat-trick as Paris Saint-Germain powered into the last 16 of the Champions League on Tuesday with a 5-0 rout of Anderlecht, while Bayern Munich joined them in the knockout stage. Marco Verratti curled in a terrific opening goal — his first in Europe since September 2014 — on the half-hour […]
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…as part of activities to mark 2017 World Savings Day Skye Bank CEO, Tokunbo Abiru, has unveiled the Bank’s plans to take financial literacy campaign to 30 schools in the country to mark this year’s World Savings Day. Abiru made this known while addressing pupils of Seed of Life Schools, Lebanon Ibadan, adopted by Skye […]
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Oil markets were firm on Monday, with Brent crude opening above $60 per barrel on expectations an OPEC-led production cut due to expire next March would be extended. Brent crude oil futures, the international benchmark for oil prices, were at $60.63 per barrel at 0018 GMT, up 19 cents or 0.3 per cent from their […]
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Police in Kenya have been using “unlawful force’’ against protesters after chaotic elections last week, Amnesty International said in a strongly worded statement on Monday. The London-based rights watchdog detailed excessive police violence in parts of Nairobi and the western city of Kisumu, pointing to several fatal police shootings. The violence came after Kenya’s controversial […]
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Senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, has described Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, as one of the “monsters created by the government of Goodluck Jonathan”. Jonathan had appointed Maina as head of the pension task force in 2010 but he was dismissed […]
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Senators on Wednesday, resolved to alleviate the plight of workers in Kogi following the non payment of salaries by the state government and have therefore donated 1,260 bags of rice to the workers. The lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Sen. Dino Melaye made this known while briefing newsmen in Abuja. As a followup, 40 […]
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