GE Healthcare, Access Bank Partner to Provide equipment financing to Nigeria’s private healthcare providers
GE Healthcare and Access Bank Nigeria have entered into a partnership to provide Nigeria’s Private Healthcare Providers with equipment financing. Under the partnership, borrowers will be able to…
FG inaugurates committee on sustainable funding for education
Federal Government has inaugurated a committee charged with the responsibility to harmonise, develop and work out a framework for sustainable funding of education in Nigeria. Mr Sonny Echono, the Permanent…
Latest Mediterranean migrants’ shipwreck takes death toll to over 600 this year
The latest shipwreck in the Mediterranean takes the death toll of migrants to over 600 this year, putting 2019 on track to be the sixth year in a row with…
Migrants: About 115 feared dead, 134 rescued in after worst Mediterranean shipwreck of the year
About 115 people are missing and feared to have drowned and another 134 were rescued by Libyan coast guards and local fishermen after a wooden boat carrying migrants capsized off…
‘Daughters of Chibok’ to be screened at 76th Venice International Film Festival
‘Daughters of Chibok’, a film that explores the stories of abducted schoolgirls in Chibok town, will be screened at the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. Recall that in April 2014,…
Nigeria has achieved National unity through the NYSC scheme – Gowon
A former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd), has said that the National unity has been achieved by the deployment of corps participants to states other than their states of…
NEMA receives 171 stranded Nigerians from Libya
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Friday received another batch of 171 stranded Nigerians from Libya. Alhaji Idris Muhammed, Coordinator, Lagos Territorial Office of NEMA, who was represented by…
Xenophobia: MTN in trouble, as NANS shuts down Kaduna office over killing of 118 Nigerians
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Thursday closed the Kaduna office of South African Telecommunication giant, MTN, over xenophobic attacks and killings of 118 Nigerians in the last…
Late Precious Owolabi laid to rest in Kaduna
Photo Credit: Channels TV The funeral service of late Precious Owolabi has held in Kaduna state. Precious a Youth Corp Member who was killed while serving with Channels Television….
400 years on: Chains, shackles, auction documents are reminders of trans Atlantic slave trade
In late August 1619, a ship carrying “20 and odd” African men and women docked at Point Comfort, today’s Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia. Their arrival, 400 years ago next…