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A branch of United Bank for Africa (UBA) on Broad Street, Lagos Island, was engulfed by fire on Tuesday, sending panic across the busy commercial district as staff and customers scrambled to safety. Trending videos that surfaced online showed frightened bank workers attempting to escape through windows, with some seen jumping from the storey building […]

Global Clean energy investment is projected to capture about $2.2 trillion, which doubles the $1.1 trillion allocated to oil, gas and coal, even as Africa continues to drag in clean energy investment. Overall, global energy investments are projected to reach $3.3 trillion in 2025, according to the ‘World Energy Investment 2025’ report published this September […]

The acting Rector of the Maritime Academy of Nigeria (MAN), Oron, Dr. Kevin Okonna, on Tuesday, said the Academy has commenced the procurement process for the purchase of two brand new simulators in order to meet industry requirements. This was disclosed at the press briefing on the current state of the Academy and facts about […]

Sheikh Ahmad Olagoke Aladesawe, the Chief Imam of Owo and chairman of the Ondo State League of Imams and Alfas, has passed away. Aladesawe, the secretary-general of the League of Imams and Alfas of Yoruba Land, Edo, and Delta States, died on Monday evening at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owo, at 91. He was […]

There was confusion in Lagos Island yesterday as a six-storey building on Afriland Tower, Broad Street, Lagos, where a branch of the United Bank for Africa is located, went up in flames. Several United Bank for Africa (UBA) workers and other occupants of the building were seen in a viral video escaping through a ladder […]

Plans are ongoing to boost rice production in Nigeria and make it affordable for consumers. The chairman, Niger Foods, Engr. Sammy Adigun, who disclosed this to newsmen in Osogbo, explained that a detailed strategy is already being worked out to achieve abundant production. According to him, the trio of Dangote Group, Niger Foods and Africa […]

A professor of Medicine at Bayero University, Kano (BUK) and consultant physician and nephrologist at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Aliyu Abdu, has asserted that 10,000 kidneys are sold in the black market globally, with about 651 kidneys worth over $41 billion trafficked and transplanted illegally in Nigeria between 2015 and 2020. At a National […]

Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja has refused to grant bail to Samuel Asiegbu, an employee of Wema Bank Plc, who is facing trial for allegedly defrauding the bank of N8,568,090,500. Justice Oshodi dismissed the bail application because the evidence against Asiegbu is substantial and he might not appear […]

Katsina State government has announced a 70 per cent reduction in crime and criminality, following Governor Dikko Umaru Radda’s aggressive security and community-policing strategy. The commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Dr. Nasir Mu’azu, revealed the figure during a high-level consultation on security and governance yesterday at Government House. He attributed the feat to […]

The director-general of the Kaduna State Bureau for Substance Abuse, Prevention and Treatment (KABUSA), Joseph Ike, has said that a substance abuse prevention programme will be introduced at the state’s basic education level. Ike, who stated this at MTN Foundation’s two-day workshop on Anti-Substance Abuse Programme (ASAP), held in Kaduna, said the purpose of the […]