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By Stanley Chuck Following an explosion near Borussia Dortmund team bus, defender Marc Bartra has been said to have sustained an injury. The incident took place when the bus was driving to their home stadium for Tuesday’s Champions League match, which has been postponed. The German club confirmed multiple reports that Bartra had been taken to the hospital after windows were shattered in three explosions near the team bus. Meanwhile, UEFA said the match, a quarterfinal first leg against Monaco, had been postponed until Wednesday at 6:45 P.M. local time (12:45 P.M. ET), adding that the decision…
Abuja- With a week left to the reopening of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport which was shut down for maintenance and repairs on March 8, the Minister of State for Aviation Senator Hadi Sirika has disclosed that the April 19 due date for reopening is on schedule. Sirika who made the disclosure on Tuesday at an inspection of the NAIA, noted that the runway had some undulated surfaces earlier which has been tended to and reduced significantly to near even level. He announced that a part of the Airfield lighting and the markings which are being done…
Abuja-The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has on Monday disclosed that a special Forex window has been opened for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to import eligible finished and semi-finished items not exceeding $20,000 for an enterprise per quarter. The CBN spokesman Isaac Okoroafor who made the disclosure in Abuja, explained that the Bank’s special intervention was necessitated by its findings that a large number of SMEs were being crowded out of the forex space by large firms. According to him, “The sum of $20,000 per SME customer per quarter can be effected by telegraphic transfer subject to…
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has intercepted huge sums of money in various currencies at the popular Balogun market in Lagos following a tip from a whistle blower on Monday. It was discovered that the monies include €547,730 and £21,090 as well as N5,648,500 with a total haul of about N250m at the prevailing exchange rate at the parallel market. According to the EFCC Spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren; “The intercept followed information that about N250 million cash was being moved somewhere in the market for conversion into foreign currencies by unnamed persons. Operatives responded timely,…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has extended the registration exercise of the 2017 UTME to May 5, 2017 as it puts the Mock Examination earlier schedule for Saturday April 8, 2017 on hold. Stating this on Saturday in Abuja, the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede said that instead of the earlier announced April 19, the deadline for the sale of forms and registration will now extend to Friday, May 5, 2017, adding that the 2017 UTME has also been postponed to start on Saturday, May 13 – 20, 2017. According to him; “The Mock Examination earlier slated…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Thursday, April 6, 2017, offered the sum of $100 million to authorized dealers at the forex auction in the interbank wholesale window.
By Gift Samuel Travels remains a priority on the list of government expenditure items with the Nigerian government spending a whooping sum of over N350 billion on travels alone between 2012 and 2015. In line with this, the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun on Thursday at a workshop on flight discounts with Dana Airlines by the Efficiency Unit of the Ministry for MDAs, said that Nigeria is expected to save N5 billion per annum from discounts on travel alone when the legal documentation of the discounts offered by Dana airlines are concluded. Dana Airlines signed an agreement…
Stanley Chuck Health workers in Nigeria have on Wednesday began a mass vaccination programme to halt a mass outbreak of meningitis that has killed nearly 340 people since late last year. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said there had been 2,997 suspected cases of the disease in 16 states as of April 3, with 336 deaths according to AFP. According to Lawal Bakare from the Agency; “Right now, vaccinators are in the field in Zamfara state administering doses of vaccine to contain the spread of the disease,” Lawal Bakare, from the agency”. Zamfara, in northwest…
By Gift Samuel Abuja-In a bid to support local production of goods in Nigeria and to reduce unemployment, the Nigeria Export and Import Bank (NEXIM) has disclosed that it has granted the sum of N1.2 billion as Medium Term Facility Loan to a leading furniture manufacturer in Nigeria, Alibert Products Nigeria Limited. The intervention appears to be apt especially in the face of numerous challenges facing the furniture manufacturing industry in Nigeria presently as it will help to develop Nigeria’s local manufacturing industry and directly translate to improvement in the furniture industry and the country’s economy. The Acting…
Yetunde Verissimo Abuja-As part of its digital awareness program, the Nigerian Communications Commission,(NCC) has donated 190 used computer systems and accessories to the Nigerian Computer Society (NCS) Abuja chapter. The used computer systems and accessories which includes 60 units of monitors, 35 central processing units, 30 printers, 50 UPS’s and 15 laptops would be used by the NCS to set up computer laboratories in secondary schools. At the event which took place on Tuesday, in Abuja, The Executive Vice chairman NCC Professor Umar Dambatta, who was represented by the Director Public Affairs, Mr. Tony Ojobo, said that the…