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Dangote Cement supports Kogi orphanage with food items

25.10.2024
Dangote Cement Plc, through its Obajana Plant, has launched a series of community service initiatives as part of this year’s Sustainability Week in Kogi State. In a statement, the company disclosed it aimed to engage and support local communities while raising awareness about sustainability.  The Head of the Sustainability Department at Dangote Cement Plc, Eseosa...
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Nigerian Breweries FX loss worsens to N160bn

25.10.2024
Nigerian Breweries’ foreign exchange loss worsened to N160.48bn as of the end of the third quarter. This was disclosed in its unaudited results filed with the Nigerian Exchange Limited on Wednesday. The financial result showed that the brewer’s FX loss, which was N86.83bn as of September 2023 had risen by about 84.83 per cent to...
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Pasuma, Currency and Super Eagles’ humiliation (2)

25.10.2024
From the bottomless depth of Yoruba divinity, I fetch the myth of Ajala, whose popular name is Obatala. Ajala is the heavenly potter tasked with the duty of moulding human heads. Ori is the Yoruba word for head. Ori encases destiny. In Igbo cosmology, a person’s Chi, like Ori, is a personal spiritual force that...
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As an excellent educationist turns 80

25.10.2024
Educationists are one of the few sets of people who get me emotional. One, now retired, was so brilliant and dedicated to his work as a university lecturer that he made me think of how people dedicate their lives to raising others even when they remain largely unsung. It’s such a powerful emotion that I...
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Tinubu pledges livestock farming revamp amid $1.5bn dairy imports

25.10.2024
President Bola Tinubu on Thursday reassured Nigerians that his administration will not repeat the past mistakes of former governments, which neglected livestock farming. He also said his government will avoid dependence on dairy imports. Tinubu made the commitment when he declared open a two-day consultative workshop on livestock reforms at the State House Conference Centre,...
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FG charges nine over Akpabio’s impeachment rumour

25.10.2024
The Federal Government has filed a six-count charge against nine defendants over allegations bordering on disseminating false information on the recent rumour about the impeachment of the Senate President, Godswil Akpabio. The charge, marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/555/2024, was filed at a Federal High Court in Abuja on October 21 by the Deputy Director of Public Prosecution of...
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Police rescue kidnap victim in Katsina

25.10.2024
Operatives of the Katsina State Police Command have rescued one 26-year-old Mubarak Haruna who was kidnapped in the Jibia Local Government Area of the state about a month ago. The PUNCH learnt that the victim who hailed from Tudun Yanlihidda quarters, Katsina metropolis, was kidnapped by hoodlums at Kwarare village while travelling in a commercial...
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Lagos warns against building conversion for commercial use

25.10.2024
The Lagos State Government has warned that buildings should be used solely for their intended purposes — either commercial or residential. The Lagos State Materials Testing Laboratory Agency General Manager, Olayinka Abdul, said this was to avoid overwhelming the load capacity on such edifice’s structural balance. She called for detailed assessments of structures, as most...
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Debt servicing hindering Nigeria’s socioeconomic development – IMF

25.10.2024
The International Monetary Fund has said that Nigeria allocates the majority of its revenue to debt servicing, leaving limited funds for critical development projects. Speaking during the Fiscal Monitor press briefing at the ongoing IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington DC, Davide Furceri, Division Chief of the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department, emphasised the need for...
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Vandals cut crude supply to Forcados terminal

25.10.2024
The supply of crude oil into Shell’s Forcados terminal has been cut by as much as 50 per cent after an alleged sabotage operation on the company’s pipeline, trading sources told S&P Global Commodity Insights. The incident, it was learned, has led to loading delays and a possible force majeure declaration. Sources, speaking to S&P...
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