President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday hailed Africa’s richest man and Nigeria’s pride, Aliko Dangote, describing him as the biggest employer of labour after the Federal Government. Buhari stated this during his speech when he inaugurated the multi-billion dollar Dangote Fertiliser Plant,…
*COVID-19 fourth wave likely in December, says Lagos(Punch)*Railway workers suspend strike, sets up committee to review demands (Guardian)
COVID-19 fourth wave likely in December, says Lagos(Punch) The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, has raised the alarm that the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic may be imminent in Nigeria by December. Abayomi, at a news…
*Dangote loses younger brother in US (DailyTrust)*Floods overwhelm Lagos communities, wreck 25 vehicles (Punch)
Dangote loses younger brother in US (DailyTrust) Sani Dangote, the younger brother of Africa’s richest man, is dead. Details of his death are sketchy but he was said to have died at a US hospital. The deceased was the Group…
Hadiza Bala Usman tackles Sahara Reporters
Hadiza Bala Usman has responded to a report by Sahara Reporters titled “How Suspended NPA Boss, Hadiza Usman Awarded Coastline Terminals to Dangote’s Proxy Company in Shady Deal” published on the online media platform. The report, Usman said in her…
Employers and their biggest headache – Ehi Braimah
Bishop Samuel Noi Mensah is the President of Full Gospel Church International, a Pentecostal and Charismatic Church with its headquarters in Tema, Greater Accra, Ghana. In a video that went viral, Bishop Mensah narrated the frustrations of employers of labour…
VFD boss urges young Nigerians to take advantage of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme
Nonso Okpala, VFD Group Boss jumps on the #TEFChallenge in an interview and spoke on the importance of the 2021 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme for young entrepreneurs. What were you up to before this call came in? Well, my morning rituals…
See how CACOVID is about to do what govt couldn’t do to provide security and harness youth demography in Nigeria – Magnus Onyibe
Policing in Nigeria is about to receive a boost through the injection of N100 billion investment into the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) to improve its fledgling services. And the gesture is not courtesy of government. But it is out of…
Insecurity of lives & properties in Nigeria may be worse than the damage done by COVID-19 pandemic: What to do about it – Magnus Onyibe
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Democracy Day speech, which was presented in 101 paragraphs in which he highlighted six particular sectors that he believes his administration has excelled-Economy, Security, Agriculture, Electricity Power, Transportation and Peace in the Niger Delta, makes an interesting…
Ministry needs N10bn to renovate sporting facilities – Dare
Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, says the ministry needs between N5bn and N10bn to renovate sporting facilities across the country. Dare made this known in a statement signed by his media office on Thursday. The PUNCH had…
COVID-19 Pandemic: Do Nigerians need celebrity enlightenment on CNN? – Magnus Onyibe
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, co-chairman of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the world’s second richest man is unarguably one of the foremost philanthropists of our time. Were it not for the current outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, how…