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Zenith Bank Plc has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)with the African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat for the development of the SMARTAfCFTA Portal, for trade promotion within the African continent. The SMARTAfCFTA Portal had the capacity to provide information like trade indicators, market trends, custom tariffs, trade agreements, rules of origin, and market access […]

Some shareholders of First Bank Nigeria Holding, FBNH Plc, have kicked against the move by some aggrieved shareholders to stop the forth coming Annual General Meeting, AGM scheduled to hold on August 15, 2023, asking that the regulatory authorities in the financial sector should intervene. The shareholders group under the aegis of Trustee Shareholders Association […]

A Greek football fan was stabbed to death on the outskirts of Athens during a brawl between rival club supporters, with 96 people arrested in violent clashes, police said. The 22-year-old man was transported from the stadium in the suburbs to an Athens hospital where he died, according to police. The fight between the fans […]

The Nigerian Insurers Association and the Federal Road Safety Corps FRSC are partnering to ensure motorists obtain genuine motor insurance. The Chairman, NIA, Mr Olusegun Omosehin, sought more support when he led a delegation of some members of its governing council to pay a working visit to the Corps Marshal, FRSC, Mr Dauda Ali Biu […]

The founder of One Love Family, Satguru Maharaj Ji, has kicked against proposed moves by President Bola Tinubu to deploy military personnel for intervention in the troubled Niger Republic following the recent coup in the country. In a statement in Ibadan, Maharaj Ji warned that it was wrong to attempt to restore democracy in the […]

The Ojodu Local Council Development Area of Lagos State has appealed to the state government to provide it with a piece of land to build a market in the community. The chairman of the LCDA, David Odunmbaku, said having a designated market in the community would help to tackle street trading. Odunmbaku spoke at an […]

England scraped through to the quarter-finals of the Women’s World Cup with a dramatic penalty shootout victory over Nigeria after surviving a gruelling onslaught having gone down to 10 players. Nigeria had played a 0-0 draw with England after 120 minutes. Despite the first penalty-taker, Georgia Stanway, firing wide, Nigeria missed their next two and […]

  Germany’s Women’s World Cup campaign came to an end in the group stage for the first time in their history as they were held to a draw  by South Korea, while Morocco’s win over Colombia consigned the two-time champions to a shock early exit. Germany started this World Cup with a flurry of goals […]