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Nigerians have hailed Cambodia-based Nigerian footballer, Harrison Chinedu, for breaking the world record for the farthest distance travelled with ball balanced on the head. The footballer achieved the feat on Sunday, March 6 in Lagos. Chinedu trekked a distance of 48.04km in six hours, 15 minutes to break the previous record set by Indian soldier, Naib Subedar Azad Singh, who ...
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March, 2016
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4 March
UBA Customers Get Free Rides From Uber
Uber and UBA have today announced a partnership which offers UBA cardholders up to N6,000 worth of free Uber rides from now until 31 March 2016. UBA cardholders who sign up for Uber will get up to N3,000 off each of their first two rides. To get this offer, a customer needs to sign up with any UBA card and ...
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3 March
Facebook Founder, Zuckerberg, Is Now 6th Richest In The World
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is now the 6th richest man in the world, moving up 10 spots from last years Forbes’ 2016 billionaires list of the world’s richest people. According to Forbes, Mark made more than $11billion in one year, going from $33.4 billion in the 2015 ranking to $44.6 billion in the 2016 ranking. Bill Gates is still the ...
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1 March
UBA Foundation launches Read Africa initiative
UBA Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of United Bank for Africa Plc, has called on students to take critical interest in developing their reading habits to improve their vocabulary, knowledge and understanding of events around them. The Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer, UBA Foundation, Ijeoma Aso, made the call while launching the 2016 edition of the Read Africa initiative. ...
February, 2016
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25 February
DSTV Caves-In To Pressure:Slashes Subscription Prices By 50%
MULTICHOICE Nigeria, owners of DStv, has announced a slash in the prices of its bouquets as well as introduction of two new sport channels. The new channels – Super Sport 11 (DStv Channel 231) and Super Sport 12 (DStv Channel 232) – will be dedicated to showcasing the English Premier League (EPL), the Spanish La Liga and Euro 2016. They ...
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14 February
STERLING BANK EMPHASIZES CLEAN ENVIRONMENT
Sterling Bank, the one customer bank took its clean environment campaign to Jakande market in the Eti-Osa local government area of Lagos State. Staff came out to demonstrate the bank’s focus on the health and wellbeing of the individual by participating in the cleaning exercise. As part of Sterling Bank’s corporate social responsibility, initiatives such as this will contribute positively ...
April, 2015
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9 April
Sterling Bank Increases On-line Micro Credit to N10,000
Following the success of the Social Lender Scheme introduced last year and the impressive response from the beneficiaries; the members of the on-line community, Sterling Bank Plc has repackaged the scheme by increasing the minimum on-line micro credit from N3,000 to N10,000. The Scheme was launched in July 2014 and the Bank disbursed over N6million to over 2000 on-line customers. ...
