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Neimeth targets N5b turnover this year

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Neimeth International Pharmaceuticals Plc plans to grow its turnover by more than 127.7 per cent in the 2024 financial year compared to what it made in 2023. The company plans to generate sales of N5 billion in the current business year…

Salpha Energy secures £25,000 grant to boost production, clean power

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Salpha Energy has been awarded a £25,000 grant from the Ashden Awards, supported by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, aimed to support the company’s mission in enhancing the production of African-made solar systems and…

Nigeria loses $7.2b to low production as NNPCL, firms declare ‘war’

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Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has led indigenous and International Oil Companies (IOCs) in the regular hope of improving the country’s oil production despite losing $7.2 billion to low oil production in the first half…

Air Force seeks solutions to incessant crashes

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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) high command, yesterday, called for emplacement of appropriate actions to check the incessant mishaps involving its war jets to foster a good safety culture that transcends all levels within the force. NAF also…

Traditional, religious leaders tasked to end GBV in Taraba

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Traditional and religious leaders across Taraba State and Nigeria at large have been urged to assist in eliminating practices that promote Gender Based Violence (GBV). Besides, they were also implored to advocate policies that could end…

‘Research investment key to Nigeria’s socio-economic growth’

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TETFund partners NAL on proposal writing, grantmanship The Vice Chancellor (VC) of Osun State University (UNIOSUN), Prof. Odunayo Clement Adebooye, yesterday, said investment in research by government and relevant stakeholders is critical…

Abia flood: Senate seeks FG’s intervention

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Urges NIMET, others to promptly make flood information available The Federal Government, through its agencies, should take immediate measures to rescue and ameliorate the sufferings of inhabitants of communities being ravaged by recent…

Shareholders laud CAP on sustained 2023 performance

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Shareholders of paint manufacturer in Nigeria and West Africa, Chemical and Allied Products Plc (CAP Plc.) have approved a final dividend of N1.55 kobo per 50 kobo ordinary share, bringing the total dividend declared for the 2023 financial…

NRC generates N1.42 billion, N607.32 million in Q1

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The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) generated N1.42 billion in revenue by transporting 675,293 passengers and N607.32 million moving goods in the first quarter of 2024. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in its Q1 2024 Rail…

MultiChoice plans 6,000 hours of local content in 40 languages yearly

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Africa’s leading entertainment platform and largest producer of original content on the African continent, MultiChoice, has announced a milestone of 6,000 hours of local content produced in 40 languages each year, airing across 50…

Ogun monarch declares July 13 Wole Soyinka Day

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Smartphone shipment to Africa exceeds feature phones in Q1

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Africa’s smartphone market showed remarkable resilience in the face of macroeconomic challenges in Q1 of 2024 with shipments increasing by 17.9 per cent year-on-year (YoY) to reach 20.2 million units. According to the latest insights from…

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Ondo govt moves to regulate electricity supply

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Capitalfield Investment secures ISO 22301 certification

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Capitalfield Investment Group Limited has received a certification for the ISO 22301:2019 Business Continuity Management System (BCMS). The certification, awarded on July 1, 2024, at its headquarters in Lagos, underscores Capitalfield’s…

Senate tasks security agencies on collaboration

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To achieve target objectives of the National Defence Policy, the Senate has charged the Nigerian Armed Forces, the Nigerian Police Force, and other paramilitary organisations to prioritise inter-agency cooperation and collaboration. The…

LG polls will test your credibility, Delta elders tell Oborevwori

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In barely two weeks to the local council elections in Delta State, Delta Obidient Elders’ Council has tasked the Governor Sheriff Oborevwori to conduct credible elections, saying that the council poll is a litmus test of the credibility of…

Ijaw youths shut down oil field over noncompliance with laws

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Nigeria daily oil production was, again, threatened, yesterday, as angry youths from the Anyama Clan of Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) and Onuebum Community of Ogbia Local Council Area of Bayelsa State stormed and shut down the operation of an…

Union refutes alleged factionalisation, affirms dismissal of general secretary

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Amalgamated Union of App-Based Transporters of Nigeria (AUATON), an organised registered trade union under the Federal Republic of Nigeria, yesterday, refuted alleged factionalisation within its ranks. In a statement, the national ex…

Emir, residents go spiritual over drought

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Emir of Katsina, Abdulmumini Usman, yesterday, led residents to perform rain-seeking prayer following the 16th day of rain seizure in the area. The supplication, which held around 8.00 a.m. at the Eid Prayer Ground Mosque, superintendent…

Lagos Assembly urges govs to see legislature as partners, not appendages

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Wants N’Assembly to criminalise acts against parliamentarism Lagos State House of Assembly has called on governors to avoid seeing state legislatures as appendages of the executive, but instead, treat lawmakers as partners in the progress…

FG ranks Lagos, Abuja most air polluted cities

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Expert decries high impact of environmental factors The Federal Government, yesterday, identified Abuja and Lagos as the high capital cities with the poorest air quality and highest level of pollution. It said that the citizens’ health and…

Bamidele brings home The Melodious Struggle Of Souls, Consciousness

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The Melodious Struggle of Souls and Consciousness by multi-disciplinary and self-taught artist, Raji Bamidele, is finally home. The show, which opened to the public on Saturday, June 23, would run until July 13, 2024. It is showing at the…

LASG refunds 145 Egan-Igando housing scheme subscribers

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Lagos State Government has said that no fewer than 145 subscribers have been refunded their full deposit for various categories of housing units in Egan-Igando Mixed Housing Estate following their lack of further interest in the housing…

Climate: Lagos commits to full implementation of resilience strategy

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Piqued by the climate change realities, Lagos State government, yesterday, expressed its commitment to achieving resilience dividends associated with the full implementation of strategy by harnessing the contributions and shared…

DigitalSENSE Africa honours Ekuwem, Odusote, others

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Theimmediate past Secretary to the Government of Akwa-Ibom State, Dr Emmanuel Ekuwem, alongside the Chairperson, Board of Trustees of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), Ibukun Odusote; Managing Director, Condata Systems…

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Abiodun orders arrest of kidnappers along Sagamu-Ijebu Ode Expressway

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Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has ordered security agents to launch a massive manhunt for perpetrators of Sunday’s kidnapping along the Sagamu-Ijebu Ode expressway. Many people were reportedly kidnapped around Area Command and Ilishan…

Imo Assembly suspends four over impeachment plot

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Four members of the Imo State House of Assembly have been suspended for allegedly plotting to impeach the Speaker, Chike Olemgbe. The suspended members were Samuel Otuibe (Ahiazu-Mbaise), Henry Agbasonu (Ezinihitte-Mbaise), Chidiebere…

Nigerian man returns $14,000 mistakenly sent to his account, gets over ₦7.5m reward

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Nigerian man, Anjola Femi, and his act of honesty has gone viral and got him significant praise and reward from the internet. Anjola, a chemical engineering graduate, returned a massive sum of $14,000. This money was mistakenly sent to his…

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EFCC operative commits suicide

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From Matthew Ogune from An operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) took his own life on Monday at his residence in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Guardian source described the deceased, a member of Course…

Russia sentences teen to 12 years for sending money to Kyiv army

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Russia on Tuesday sentenced a 19-year-old man to 12 years in prison for allegedly donating money to Kyiv’s forces. Separately, it doubled a documentary maker’s sentence for denouncing the Ukraine offensive. Moscow has for more than two…