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FirstBank Offers Support To SMEs In Education Sector Through The Pandemic

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By Chinyere Nwokeoma, NAN First Bank of Nigeria Limited has offered to give financial support to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Education Sector to cushion the effects of the COVID -19 pandemic. Mr. Bankole Adediran, Head, Transaction Banking Products, FirstBank, made this known at the Bank’s SMEConnect webinar with theme: “Managing Your School through the Pandemic: Engagement and Retention Strategies”. Adediran said that the Bank was ready to partner with SMEs in the education sector through the period of the novel coronavirus pandemic to sustain their businesses. “FirstBank, as…

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COVID-19: Cases hit 39,977 in Nigeria

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The total number of confirmed fatalities in the coronavirus pandemic was put at 856 on Saturday as the number of confirmed cases in Nigeria hit 39,977. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, on Saturday, confirmed that 438 persons had tested positive, bringing the total number of infections to 39,977. According to the COVID-19 Situation Report, which was published on the NCDC website on Friday, no fewer than 73 per cent, were identified to have had “unknown exposure” to the deadly virus. The centre also noted that two per cent of…

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Gunmen defy curfew, attack Southern Kaduna communities again

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‌ Gunmen suspected to be Fulani militiamen, have launched fresh attacks on Southern Kaduna communities despite a 24-hour curfew imposed by the Kaduna State government. This was as the umbrella body of Southern Kaduna people, Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, on Saturday said 63 people had been killed in the past one week by the militiamen. The latest killings were reportedly carried out around 7am on Saturday when some suspected Fulani militiamen attacked three communities in Jema’a and Kaura local government areas of Kaduna State and killed at least nine people.…

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601 repentant terrorists rehabilitated in Gombe

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The Borno State Commissioner for Information, Babakura Jatau, has announced that 601 repentant terrorists who are being reintegrated into their communities have been given N20,000 stipends and some basic equipment to practise their respective vocations. Jatau said the funds and the starter packs were given to the repentant terrorists by the North East Development Commission and the International Organisation for Migration. He denied reports that the state government was giving each of the beneficiaries N100,000. The commissioner said only about 10 per cent of the 601 repentant terrorists were actually…

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Boko Haram: Shekau told us FG insincere –Ex-fighters

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An Ex-Boko Haram terrorist, who is in the custody of troops of the Multi-National Joint Task Force, has said a factional leader of the sect, Abubakar Shekau, told them while in the forests that the Federal Government was insincere and cheated them. The surrendered terrorist, according to a release from MNJTF on Friday, added that Shekau was worse than those he condemned and he was happy to have escaped from the sect. In the release by the MNJTF Chief of Public Information, Col Timothy Antigha, 47 Boko Haram fighters surrendered…

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Diezani summoned by court to face N17.6bn money laundering charges

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‌ Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, former Minister of Petroleum Resources, has been ordered by the Federal High Court in Abuja to appear for arraignment on money laundering charges preferred against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu gave the order in a ruling on an ex parte application shortly after it was moved by EFCC’s lawyer, Faruk Abdullah. The judge ordered the defendant who was alleged to have fled to the United Kingdom shortly after leaving office in 2015, to appear in court to answer to the…

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Covid-19: Bill Gates reacts to conspiracy theories he created outbreak

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Bill Gates, Billionaire philanthropist, on Thursday pushed back against some of the conspiracy theories spreading online accusing him of creating the coronavirus outbreak. “It’s a bad combination of pandemic and social media and people looking for a very simple explanation,” the Microsoft founder said during an interview. Doctored photos and fabricated news articles crafted by conspiracy theorists — shared thousands of times on social media platforms and messaging apps, in various languages — targeting Gates have gained traction online since the start of the pandemic. A video accusing Gates of…

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Two police officers detained over treatment of lady arrested with boyfriend

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Two policemen, Assistant Superintendent of Police Tijani Olatunji and Inspector Gboyega Oyeniyi, have been arrested by the Nigeria Police Force for allegedly subjecting a suspected robber’s girlfriend to dehumanising treatment at the man’s house in the Ibadan area of Oyo State. The Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, who confirmed the development in a statement on Thursday, said efforts were on to arrest another cop and a yet-to-be-identified civilian involved in the incident. Mba, however, said the officers were on legitimate duties. It was gathered that the police team had…

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70-year-old Lottery operator commits suicide in Lagos

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Baba Pool, a lottery shop operator, on Thursday committed suicide over his alleged failure to pay some of his customers their winnings. It was gathered that the deceased hanged himself inside his shop in Kayode Market, Abule Ijesha, in the Sabo area of Lagos State. It was learnt that the deceased, in a suicide note, blamed two people for his death. He wrote, “For your information, Bourney and Osuma. Two of them kill me. A killer must surely die.” It was further learnt that the deceased pasted the note at…

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Lagos Governor congratulates Jakande at 91

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Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Governor of Lagos State, has congratulated a former governor of the state, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, on his 91 years birthday celebration. Sanwo-Olu, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Gboyega Akosile, on Thursday, described Jakande as an elder. The governor said Jakande, aka Baba Kekere, brought a lot of development to Lagos as governor between October 1, 1979 and December 31, 1983, in line with the five cardinal programmes of the Unity Party of Nigeria founded by a former Premier of the Western Region,…

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