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Super Eagles captain, Ahmed Musa, has rejoined Kano Pillars for the remainder of the 2020/21 Nigeria Professional Football League season. Musa joins Sai Masu Gida for the rest of the season, 11 years after he first featured for the club. The 28-year-old previously played for the Pride of Kano in 2009, and ended the season as the top scorer in ...

Department of Petroleum Resources said on Tuesday that 28 investors, including BUA Refinery & Petrochemicals Limited, have active refining licences. 32 refinery project licences issued to private investors in the country had become invalid in the past three years as they were missing on the updated list of valid licences as of March 2021 which was obtained from the DPR ...

Yusuf Owolabi Abdul, a Nigerian resident in Canada, extradited from Germany to the United States, will be presented on Monday in New York before Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang. Abdul, also known as “Saheed Sador” faces a fraud charge that may put him behind bars for up to 30 years. He was extradited on Friday to New York, said Audrey ...

The Rivers State Government has intercepted a truckload of suspected substandard animal hide, popularly called ponmo, in Onne, Eleme Local Government Area of the state, even as two persons accompanying the truck were arrested. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Fred Kpakol, who confirmed the incident while speaking to journalists on Port Harcourt, said the import papers showed that the seized ...

Nigerians have been calling on the Federal Government to prioritise citizens’ health by decentralising and opening the COVID-19 vaccination process to private sector players to make it more efficient. Using the decentralised COVID-19 testing process as a test case, Abiodun Adekoya, a Lagos-based entrepreneur, urged the Federal Government to create a framework that allows the private sector to provide vaccines ...

Chief Agwu Ukpai, the Deputy Chief of Staff to Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, is dead. There is no statement yet from the Abia State Government and his family.Ukpai was said to have died on Monday night in Umuahia, with the cause of his sudden demise yet to be ascertained. A prominent People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in his ...

Former beauty queen and wife of Trinity House Pastor, Ibidun Ajayi Ighodalo is dead. According to our Port Harcourt correspondent, she died in her hotel room early this morning in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. It was gathered that the ex-beauty queen who was also the chief executive officer of Elizabeth R, a leading public relations and events management ...

Zenith Bank Plc has announced its unaudited results for the period ended 30 September, 2019, with numbers that clearly demonstrates its market dominance and leadership. From the unaudited account which was presented to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), gross earnings increased by 4% percent from N474,607 billion recorded in Q3 2018 to N491,268 billion in Q3 2019. Profit Before Tax ...

Many Nigerians today can neither sing the national anthem nor recite the national pledge, Lai Mohammed has said. The minister of information made the assertion in Abuja on Thursday, October 17 – According to Mohammed, most Nigerians do not obey the provisions of the country’s constitution The minister of information, Lai Mohammed, on Thursday, October 17, said many Nigerians today ...

Nigeria’s leading financial institution, Zenith Bank Plc, has introduced Z-Money, which brings banking services closer to its customers and enhance financial inclusion among the under-banked and unbanked populace of the country. Z-Money is an agency banking product of the bank which entails the onboarding of agents who are expected to render basic financial services on behalf of the bank. Through ...