Новости за 18.03.2024

A 33-year-old adult male, identified simply as Seun, has been crushed to death in a hit-and-run accident that occurred at Jakande, on the Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident happened on Thursday afternoon. A police source who spoke to our correspondent on the condition of anonymity on Sunday said Seun had

The National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development is partnering with the African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation to address technology gaps in Nigeria’s pharmaceutical and vaccine sectors. A statement by the group said this was in line with the Presidential initiative to unlock the health sector value chain of the Federal Ministry of Health. It revealed

The National Judicial Council has raised the alarm over repeated attempts by some fraudsters to defraud retired judicial officers of their pensions. The council claimed that the fraudsters had been bombarding retired judges with phone calls demanding various sums of money to help them fast-track the payment of their retirement benefits. In a statement on

Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a 20-year-old hair stylist, Josephine Odunu, and a 30-year-old dispatch rider, Edesemi Ikporo, for selling and distributing illicit drug-laced chin-chin to school students and at social parties in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The development was revealed by the spokesperson for the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, in a

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, has announced plans to spearhead a global collaboration aimed at enhancing the protection of undersea cables. The minister made this disclosure on social media platform, X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday. This comments came against the backdrop of undersea cable cut that has affected Ghana, Togo, Senegal,

A real estate company, Pelican Valley Nigeria Limited, has installed industrial solar streetlights in all its estates in Ogun State. The Chief Executive Officer of Pelican Valley Nigeria Ltd, Dr Babatunde Adeyemo, in a statement, disclosed that at least N20m had been invested in the street lighting project for the estates and the link roads

NIGERIA’S ambition to diversify its economy away from crude oil sales has hit a rough patch. Instead of increasing, the World Trade Organisation stated last week that Nigeria had lost its leading position in the agriculture export market because its agricultural commodities fail to meet the sanitary and phytosanitary requirements for the international markets. Given

Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, on Sunday, disclosed that the monthly internally generated revenue of his state has increased from N1.5bn to about N3bn. The former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria made the statement on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ while taking stock of his stewardship in the last two years. While stating