MTN Nigeria on Tuesday announced a public offer of 575 million shares at N169 per share with effect from Dec.1. The offer closes on Dec. 14. Its Chief Executive Officer, Mr Karl Toriola, told newsmen in Abuja that the “Retail Offer’’ which is to be delivered via a digital platform is the first in […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has described the State Visit of President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa to Nigeria as successful despite the scare generated by the new Omicron COVID-19 variant. At a joint news conference with the visiting South African leader, Buhari said new Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) between Nigeria and South Africa in diverse […]
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has complained that Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, was operating against the law establishing it to the displeasure and detriment of member states for two years running. The governor frowned at the unacceptable situation and urged the Federal Government to constitute a substantive board for the commission without […]
The Canadian government has banned travellers from Nigeria and nine other African countries over concerns about the spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant. The country earlier announced a ban on South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Namibia. In a statement on Tuesday, it said it was expanding the travel ban to Egypt, […]
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Wednesday has announced that Nigeria has now reported three cases of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus. A statement signed by the Director-General, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, partly reads, “The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control conducts case and genomic surveillance for inbound international travellers arriving in the […]
Dame Sandra Prunella Mason is the first president of Barbados. She is a mother of one and patron of the Soroptomist International of Barbados. From the independence of Barbados from Britain on November 30, 1966 to November 30, 2021, Barbados’s head of state is the Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom […]
Singer and entrepreneur Rihanna has been awarded a national honour from her homeland Barbados as the Caribbean country celebrated becoming a republic. Rihanna, who grew up in the island nation, witnessed the historic ceremony that broke Barbados’s centuries-old ties with the British monarchy and swore in its first president Dame Sandra Mason, ending […]
Deputy President Of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has said that all other tribes in Delta State should join hands with the Urhobo Nation, irrespective of political affiliation, as Delta Central will produce the next Governor of Delta State Come 2023. The Delta Central Senator who made the call at the 90th LECTURE Of […]
Michael Carrick will stay in charge of Manchester United for their clash against Arsenal this week as interim manager Ralf Rangnick awaits his work visa, the Old Trafford club said on Tuesday. Rangnick on Monday agreed to join United from Lokomotiv Moscow, where he was the head of sports and development. But he will […]
Barbados ditched Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as head of state, forging a new republic on Tuesday with its first-ever president and severing its last remaining colonial bonds nearly 400 years after the first English ships arrived at the Caribbean island. At the strike of midnight, the new republic was born, shortly after Queen Elizabeth’s royal […]
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