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Zenith Bank Plc, Nigeria’s leading financial institution, has introduced an automated voice banking service, an interactive voice response (IVR) solution which enables customers to perform basic banking transactions by dialing a dedicated phone line through their registered phone numbers and following the prompts. By simply dialing +234 (1) 278 7000 …

…Sanwo-Olu Receives Fed Govt’s 12-Man Taskforce, Pledges More Collaboration To Stop Pandemic …‘We’re Satisfied With Facilities Assessed’ – Health Minister Lagos State Government has earned a remarkable commendation for its response strategy deployed to curtail the spread of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. Secretary to the Government of …

Following the launch of its Coronavirus (COVID-19) initiative, Prudential Zenith Life Insurance has announced some additional benefits designed to address the negative impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which has claimed thousands of lives globally. According to a statement released by the company, the benefits which apply for a period …

Isa Pantami, Hon. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy The federal government has said that no licence has been issued for the deployment and operation of Fifth Generation Mobile Networks (5G network) in Nigeria, THE WITNESS reports. Numerous conspiracy theories shared on and off social media claim that 5G mobile networks are the cause …

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has dismissed allegations by some interest groups against the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio and the commission’s Interim Management Committee (IMC). NDDC Director, Corporate Affairs, Charles Odili, in a statement he released in Port Harcourt, said the attackers were mainly targeting …

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has directed all its missions abroad to compile lists of willing nationals who wanted to come back home, over the COVID-19 pandemic. Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, disclosed that this was a sequel to requests by Nigerians stranded abroad in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. …

Hundreds of Deltans took to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram on Friday to lambast the Delta State government led by Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa and his commissioner for Information, Charles Ehiedu Aniagwu for trying to cover up soldiers who threatened to rape women in the state and infect them with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). THE WITNESS reports. In a video that went viral earlier on Friday,the two officers …

Lagos State Commissioner for Health The Lagos State Government on Friday said that four more Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients had been discharged after they were treated and tested negative twice. The Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, disclosed this at a news conference to give update on coronavirus situation in Lagos at the Island Maternity Hospital …

The Enugu State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Anthony Ugochukwu, is dead, The Nation is reporting. The newspaper said the death of the renowned surgeon on Friday night at a leading private hospital, Memphys Hospital, Enugu, was confirmed by his Oji River Constituency representative in the Enugu State House of Assembly, …

By Felix Onajite First Bank of Nigeria Limited has saluted medical professionals tackling the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria and the world, THE WITNESS reports. The Bank in series of tweets on its Twitter page on Friday, acknowledged the role medical experts are playing to fight the virus. Some of the messages read: “No capes, just heroes. …