Day: August 18, 2020

PDI: Northern Communities to benefit from telehealth

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Pre Diagnosis International has commenced a programme of spreading its service base to various parts of the country in the bid to push for greater adoption of innovative telehealth among the country’s vulnerable and underserved communities. The company announced the first of such tactical moves for the North Central and North Western parts of the country in a recent disclosure that the PDI 24/7 Doctors’ Hotline and the PDI Telehealth App have been remodeled to serve the needs of the Northern people in the Hausa language. According to a media…

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Access Bank signs $93m Syndicated Loan with Dutch Bank

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Access Bank Plc has a signed a Subordinated Syndicated Loan Agreement totalling $93.8 million with the Dutch development bank (FMO), the French private sector development bank (Proparco), and leading investment firm, Symbiotics. The tier-II capital facility was structured as a “10 years non-call 5 years” subordinated debt instrument, benefitting the bank for a period of 5 years. A statement quoted the Group Managing Director, Access Bank, Herbert Wigwe, to have said the facility would enable the bank to continue on its strategic path to becoming, “Africa’s gateway to the world…

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China Loan: Reps accuse FG of signing empty repayment documents

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The Chairman of the House Committee on Treaties, Protocols and Agreements, in the House of Representatives, Hon. Ossai Nicholas Ossai, at a resumed investigative hearing on the review of bilateral loan agreements and commercial contracts agreements by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), said that some of the loans collected by the government were signed even before the terms were negotiated. He accused the federal government officials of signing empty repayment loan documents for the development of the Nigeria’s rail sector even before the terms of the loans were negotiated. The…

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Oshiomhole: Some APC governors are using Forum’s DG to fight me

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Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has accused some Progressive Governors’ Forum members of his party, All People’s Congress (APC), of allegedly using the Director General, Salihu Lukman to attack him. He came down hard on the forum’s DG yesterday while fielding questions from State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja. Lukman had last week claimed that the ex-labour leader was frustrating the party’s caretaker committee to ensure his return as chairman of the party. The panel was…

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Quantity Surveyor jailed 50 years for raping UNILAG undergraduate

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John Otema, a 34 year-old Quantity Surveyor and alumnus of the University of Lagos has been sentenced by an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, headed by Justice Abiola Soladoye to 50-years imprisonment. Otema was been convicted and sentenced for raping a 19-year-old student (name withheld and identified as Student X) of the University of Lagos (UNILAG). Justice Soladoye, handed down the judgement yesterday after finding the convict guilty of a two-count charge of rape and assault, causing harm to the 19-year-old victim. The judge, however, did not find…

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