‘I don’t look for records, they look for me’, says Ronaldo after 700th goal
Cristiano Ronaldo has lost count of the number of records he has broken, the Portugal forward said after scoring the 700th goal of his career during a 2-1 defeat to…
Libya is dangerous. It is either you are kidnapped, killed, raped or robbed; returnee recount
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Tuesday received 173 Nigerians assisted to return from Libya, where they had been stranded. The returnees, who arrived the country in two different…
Access Bank hits N1bn in daily digital lending
Access Bank Plc. has hit one billion naira daily in loan value through its expanded digital lending portfolio. Mr Victor Etuokwu, the bank’s Executive Director, Retail Banking, stated this in…
FIRST BANK GEORGIAN CUP HITS THE CENTENARY MARK, A POSSIBLE WORLD RECORD IN SPORTS SPONSORSHIP
District Head of Makera, Alhaji Shehu Tijani; Chief Executive Officer, First Bank, Dr. Adesola Adeduntan; President, Kaduna Polo Club, Alhaji Suleman Abubakar and Captain of El-Amin (winners of the 2018…
Uganda denies plans to impose death penalty for gay sex amid global concern
Uganda will not impose the death penalty for gay sex, a presidential spokesman said on Monday, after major aid donors said they were monitoring a plan by the African nation…
Troops rescue 4 more abducted students in Kaduna
Troops of Operation Thunder Strike have rescued the remaining four students of Government Day Secondary School Gwagwada in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, who were abducted on their…
No excuse is tenable for the failure of refineries to work in the country – NNPC
GMD NNPC, Mele Kyari The Federal Government has said that the failure of having refineries across the country owes fully to the inability of the Government to take care of them…
Young Africans facing poor job prospects as education worsens – report
The quality of education and training provided by African countries has worsened since 2014, leaving many of the continent’s growing population of young people ill-prepared to enter the job market,…
Osinbajo receives ICC prosecutor, says Nigeria is a strong supporter of ICC
Nigeria is fully cooperating with the International Criminal Court (ICC) preliminary examination into issues related to insurgency in the North East to ensure the process is forthrightly concluded, says Vice…
New minimum wage spend, N450bn oil subsidy captured in 2020 budget – Minister
Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, the Minister for Finance, Budget and National Planning says under-recovery of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly referred to as fuel subsidy will gulp N450 billion in 2020….