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Day: May 26, 2023

Heirs Life Calls For Applications For The Second Edition Of Its Essay Championship For Junior Secondary Students 

Leading specialist life insurance company, Heirs Life Assurance (HLA), has announced the commencement of the second edition of its nationwide essay competition, Heirs Life Essay Championship, following the widespread success of the inaugural edition. This year’s championship targets junior secondary students across Nigeria, promising to reward the winner with N2million in scholarship and N500,000 worth of educational […]

OML 130 Partners Target $2.1bn Investment As NNPCL, Total, CNOOC Seal Deals

The Federal Government has renewed the operating licence for OML 130 for NNPC Limited and its partners Total Upstream China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) & South Atlantic Petroleum (SAPETRO). The ceremony in Abuja presided over by the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Ambassador Gabriel Tanimu Aduda, saw five agreements were executed. These include […]

Tech Ventures To Showcase At Africa Tech Summit In London

Africa Tech Summit London has announced 12 African Tech ventures who will showcase investment opportunities to investors, corporates and industry experts at the London Stock Exchange on 23rd June. The Africa Tech Summit Investment Showcase will feature innovative ventures from Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Egypt, and Zambia. The ventures are seeking to raise between […]

Ex-Presidential Candidate Fined N40m For Seeking To Stop Tinubu’s Inauguration

The Court of Appeal, Abuja has fined a former presidential candidate, Ambrose Owuru, N40m for filing a frivolous suit seeking to stop the inauguration of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu on May 29. The Court ordered Owuru to pay the sum of N10m each to President Muhammadu Buhari, the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami; […]

FIFA , WHO Extend Collaboration To Promote Health Through Football

FIFA and WHO have agreed to extend their collaboration and to continue to use the power of football to promote healthy lifestyles and equal access to health services worldwide. According to WHo press release, during the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and FIFA President Gianni Infantino signed a four-year […]

Banks To Issue NIN With Debit Card To Nigerians – Pantami

The Federal Government says Nigerians can now request their commercial banks to issue them with a debit card which doubles as their National Identity Card at no extra cost. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof Isa Pantami, who disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja, said the approval was obtained at the meeting of the […]

Airtel Employees Give Students a Reason to Imagine, Provides Access to Digital Education

Employees of Airtel Nigeria, under its CSR initiative, Employee Volunteer Scheme Initiative, paid a visit to Kuramo College, a government secondary school in Lagos, and donated modern routers, each equipped with 100GB of data and a two-month roll-over access fee. The connection devices were donated by Airtel’s Information and Technology team, with a mission to […]

Total Allotments For FGN Savings Bonds Rise To N5.06bn In 5 Months – NGX

Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) has revealed that the total allotments for FGN Savings Bonds has risen to N5.06 billion in the first five months of 2023. The Divisional Head, Capital Markets at NGX, Jude Chiemeka, made this known during the NGX Savings Bond webinar 2023 organised by the Exchange in collaboration with Optimus by Afrinvest, […]

Leadway’s “Pages To Places’ Champions Children Reading Initiative

  To further exemplify its commitment to the promotion of literacy, bolstering reading culture, and improving quality education among children aged 6-12, Leadway Group has launched an innovative extra-curricular initiative campaign tagged “Pages to Places” in twelve (12) public schools across six states in Nigeria, namely, Lagos, Ogun, Abuja, Kaduna, Enugu, and Port Harcourt.   […]