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PROMOTED: Family Homes Fund: Investing to provide homes and jobs

Through International recruitment firm – PriceWaterHouse Coopers, the Family Homes Funds has launched a recruitment campaign to secure top quality capacity to deliver an ambitious. affordable housing programme as a key aspect of the Government’s Social Intervention Programme.

By 2023, the Family Homes Funds – a special purpose investment vehicle having the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority…

CBN to Nigerians: Shun unlicensed financial operators offering mouthwatering returns on investments

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has advised Nigerians to shun unlicensed financial operators offering mouthwatering returns on investments. Many Nigerians have fallen victims to such firms that offer up to 100 per cent return on investments to unsuspecting people. The firms, usually online with no physical office, disappear after receiving the investment sums from hundreds of people. Some of…

Buhari leaves for Kenya, London for UNEP anniversary, medical check-up

President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to Kenya on Tuesday to participate in the Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) scheduled for Mar 3 and 4. He will, thereafter, proceed to London for routine medical checks that will last for a maximum of two weeks. This is contained in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President, Femi Adesina, on…

Russia-Ukraine Crisis: Oil price nears $100, highest since 2014

The prices of crude oil pushed closer to $100 a barrel on Tuesday, the highest since 2014, on fears escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine could lead to disruption in supplies. Brent crude, the global benchmark, was up $3.38, or 3.5 per cent, to $98.77 at 1000 GMT, having earlier reached $99.50, the highest since September 2014. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude jumped $4.40, or…

AFCON: Aubameyang tests positive for COVID-19 as Gabon finally arrive in Cameroon

Gabon national team captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has tested positive for COVID-19 shortly after arriving in Cameroon for the Africa Cup of Nations. Aubameyang’s positive test comes on the heels of the players’ mutiny over unpaid allowances and bonuses by the Gabonese FA before they made the trip from Dubai to Yaounde, where they will play in Group C with Morocco, Ghana, and Comoros. Apart…

Obasanjo mourns Desmond Tutu

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has described Desmond Tutu as “a patriotic and highly respected teacher, preacher, intercessor, and field commander of the Lord’s Army.” The late anti-apartheid activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner died in the early hours of Sunday. He was aged 90. Mr Obasanjo in a condolence letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa said the news of Mr Tutu’s demise…

Multiple bombs explode in Maiduguri ahead of President Buhari’s visit

At least five people have been confirmed dead as multiple bombs landed around the Maiduguri international airport hours ahead of the arrival of President Muhammadu Buhari to Borno State on an official visit. The bombs believed to have been fired from outside the town began to land on different locations around the airport at about 10:45 a.m. Witnesses and security sources familiar with the…

45 farmers killed in latest Nasarawa violence – Presidency

At least 45 people were killed in renewed hostilities in Lafia, Obi and Awe local government areas of Nasarawa State, the presidency has said. Details of the violence are still sketchy but President Muhammmadu Buhari’s spokesperson, Garba Shehu, described the 45 slain victims as ‘farmers,’ thus indicating they may have been killed by armed herders. “President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed grief…