l-r: Overall Winner, Nigeria Freestyle Football Championship, Mr McCarthy Obanor, beside the Saloon Car donated by GAC Motors to 1st Prize Winner ; Chairman of Feet ‘n’ Tricks Limited, Valentine Ozigbo; Senior Sales Manager, CIG Motors Limited, distributor of GAC brands of vehicles in Nigeria, Mr. Phillip Eboka; National Coordinator, …
Read More »Manchester United signs Chelsea Midfielder Matic for £40 Million
Matic in the red of Manchester United Credit: Manchester United Twitter Manchester United have completed the signing of Nemanja Matic from Chelsea for £40m on a three-year deal. The midfielder, 28, becomes United’s third summer buy after £31m defender Victor Lindelof from Benfica and £75m striker Romelu Lukaku from Everton. United manager Jose Mourinho …
Read More »Transcorp Posts Strong Half-Year Results, Records 134% Growth in Profit.
Lagos, Nigeria; July 27, 2017: Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc (Transcorp), Nigeria’s foremost conglomerate, has announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2017, showing significant growth in key financial indicators. The company recorded N4.2bn as profit after tax (PAT) for the half-year ended 30th of June 2017, translating into …
Read More »REDTV’s ‘Here and Now: The Adventures of TASA’ Returns
REDTV, the dynamic online lifestyle channel that spotlights Africa with a distinct global appeal is set to drop the second season of its original series, Here and Now: The Adventures of TASA. The show, which documents the experiences of 4 young women, Taje Prest, Ajifa Atuluku, Seyitan Atigarin and Amiola Aguda, focuses on …
Read More »Sultan of Sokoto commends the Tony Elumelu Foundation…says we need more Tony Elumelus to take our children off the streets
July 29, 2017, Sokoto, Nigeria―The Sultan of Sokoto, Sultan Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, commended the Tony Elumelu Foundation and its Founder, Tony O. Elumelu for their contribution to entrepreneurship and creation of jobs for young people in the North. The Sultan made this commendation during a courtesy visit paid by Tony Elumelu, Chairman …
Read More »Dangote Cement’s half year results indicates 12.6 % sales volume increase across Africa
Dangote Cement, Africa’s largest cement producer, has announced its unaudited results for the six months ended 30th June 2017, posting a 12.6 percent increase in sales volume across Africa. In the financials released on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange indicated that the increase in sales volume showed …
Read More »Finish your refinery before 2019-FG Begs Dangote
The Federal Government has said it relies heavily on the Dangote refinery to fulfil its promise to Nigerians to end fuel importation by December 2019. To this end, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, who visited the Dangote oil Refinery site at Lekki free trade …
Read More »Keystone Bank launches *533# Convenient Banking Platform
In keeping with its promise to make financial services easy and accessible to its teeming customers, Keystone Bank Limited on Monday July 31, 2017 launched another innovative mobile channel enabled by dialing *533# within Nigeria. According to the bank’s Divisional Head, E-Business Channels, Mr. Ernest Obi, the *533# Unstructured Supplementary Service …
Read More »Tank Farm Explosion in Calabar, Nine People Confirmed Dead
The Cross River State Police Command has confirmed that nine people died in a fire outbreak that occurred at Linc Oil and Gas tank farm yesterday morning. The state Commissioner of Police, Hafiz Inuwa, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the scene of the event, confirmed …
Read More »Heritage Bank, Biase Plantations seal N232m pact on oil palm production
Lagos, Nigeria, July 13, 2017:Heritage Bank Plc, Nigeria’s Most Innovative Banking Services Provider, is set to restore Nigeria lost glory in the agricultural sector and reposition the country as the highest oil palm producer in the world with its recent signing of N232million Pilot phase of Out-growers Agreement with Biase …
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