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Determined to achieve the eradication of HIV/AIDS by year 2030, the Lagos State AIDS Control Agency (LSACA) has engaged religious leaders in the state in a two-day sensitisation workshop on how to prevent the virus and handle stigmatisation issues. The sensitisation programme which is very critical to the success of the war against HIV/AIDS was put together for Christian and Islamic […]
…Says Claims are Frivolous, Unfounded Unity Bank has faulted the allegation against it by Special Presidential Investigation Panel for Recovery of Public Property (SPIPRPP) over the ongoing reconciliation of the affected MDA accounts, stating that the report is geared towards misinforming the public and misrepresenting the Bank’s position and nil impact resolutions reached during the […]
An explosion targeting a tourist bus has injured at least 16 people near the Grand Egyptian Museum, next to the pyramids in Giza. South African tourists are among the injured. Most of those hurt suffered minor injuries, while three were treated in hospital, officials say. A device went off close to the museum fence as […]
Kenya’s authorities say the bodies of two babies, thought to be twins, have been found during a clean-up of a river in the capital, Nairobi. This is the eighth such discovery in recent months. Officials believe the bodies are being dumped in the city’s rivers as a result of abortions, which are illegal in most […]
NACCIMA president Hajiya Saratu Iya Aliyu has been inaugurated as the 20th National President of the Nigerian Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture ( NACCIMA). Aliyu took over from the former President Iyalode Alaba Lawson, who was the first female to occupy the height. Speaking at the event in Kaduna recently President Muhammadu Buhari […]
National Association of Commerce Industry Mines and Agriculture,NACCIMA, outgoing President, Chief, Iyalode Alaba Lawson has described her two years as NACCIMA’s National President as fulfilling as the association glows during her tenure. While speaking with Commercial and Industry Correspondents during the commissioning of Ide John C. Business Center at NACCIMA Head office in Lagos said […]
After lots of expectations and media speculations, MTN Nigeria Communications Plc officially introduced its 20.35 billion ordinary shares at N90 per share to Nigerian Stock Exchange on Thursday the 16th of May, 2019; MTN so becomes the first telecom company to be listed on NSE Premium Board, a listing segment for the elite group of […]
A senior figure at Huawei in the UK has told Sky News it is willing to go the “extra mile” to reassure countries its technology poses no security threat. Jeremy Thompson, the Chinese telecom giant’s executive vice president, was speaking as it attempted to calm security fears over its technology by offering to sign “non-spying” […]
The US has ordered all non-emergency government staff to leave Iraq immediately. The move comes amid escalating tensions with Iran, after Washington last week said it had detected new and urgent threats from the country. The US state department ordered the pullout of employees from both the embassy in Baghdad and its consulate in Erbil, […]