The Lagos State University College of Medicine (LASUCOM) is set to begin the conduct of COVID-19 test after receiving an approval from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). This was disclosed by the Acting Provost of the College, Prof. Abiodun Adewuya on Friday during the Induction Ceremony of the 15th Set of Medical Doctors/5th…
Financial and investment bouquet services company VFD Group Plc, has been nominated in two categories in the forthcoming BusinessDay Banks’ And Other Financial Institutions (BAFI) Award. Incorporated eleven years ago, VFD Group holds businesses in financial advisory, real estate, asset management, currency exchange, debt services, international settlement and remittances, among others, and is nominated in…
Afrodancehall phenomenal out of Africa Onyido Nkemjika better known as “KETCHUP” who introduced the world to his AfroDancehall sound officially in 2010 with his 1st song titled “NUVO” has gone on to be a major hit maker over the years chunking out massive tunes to the thrill of rich music lovers and excitement most especially…
Transcorp Hilton Abuja has been honoured with four awards including Africa’s Leading Business Hotel for the sixth consecutive year at the 27th annual World Travel Awards. The hotel, which is owned by Transcorp Hotels Plc, the hospitality subsidiary of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc, also won the awards for Nigeria’s Leading Hotel, Nigeria’s Leading Business…
Pan Nigerian President of Igbo Extraction Coalition PANPIEC, the foremost group seeking for the actualization of Igbo Presidency had solidified its efforts to ensure that the Igbo Presidency project is not jettisoned with the defection of Governor Dave Umahi to the APC. PANPIEC had not officially reacted to the defection of Governor Dave Umahi from…
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has announced the dissolution of the joint ownership of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomosho, Oyo state and the College of Health Sciences, Osogbo Osun. Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, Executive Secretary, NUC, made the announcement at a news conference on the resolution of the lingering ownership crisis of the…
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, the Pan African financial institution, has announced commendable performance in its unaudited 2020 Third Quarter Financial Results, with impressive growth in Gross Earnings, which rose to N454.4 billion, up from N428.7billion recorded in September 2019. According to the report filed with the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday (20…
Popular musician, Charles Oputa, professionally called Charly Boy on Friday said it is stupid to think that having a gay child means that parents have failed. Charly Boy, who revealed that his Atlanta based daughter Dewy Oputa is lesbian, explained on his social media handle how hard it was for him to come to terms…
The speaker of the house of representative, Femi Gbajabiamila, has described the killing of an Abuja newspaper vendor at the Federal Secretariat in Abuja on Thursday by one of his security aides as a horrible incident. Gbajabiamila who said he is “personally distraught” over the killing of Mr Ifeanyichukwu Elechi, expressed his regret over the…
Sterling Bank Plc, a full service national commercial bank, has reported a trading income of N7.1 billion for the third quarter ended September 30, 2020 compared with N1.9 billion for the corresponding period of 2019, representing an increase of 264.7 percent. The bank made the remarkable financial performance despite the prevailing uncertainties that characterised the…