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Dangote Cement and Guaranty Trust Bank were among Nigerian businesses recognised at the 2015 African Business Awards held Wednesday at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. The Awards, organised by African Business magazine, also honoured top business leaders, including Daphne Mashile Nkosi, Strive Masiyiwa, Helen Hai and Mohammed Dewji. Also commended ...

As part of activities marking the 28th celebration of the state’s creation, Akwa Ibom State governor Udom Emmanuel commissioned the newly constructed Gynaecology Ward of the Catholic Hospital at Anua built in memory of an Irish Reverend Sister Dr. Ann Ward. Governor Emmanuel extolled the labour of love she gave to the people stating that it has made the hospital ...

LASEMA – The general manager of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Michael Akindele, said on Wednesday that no live was lost in the building collapse at Lekki, Lagos on Tuesday. Mr. Akindele said the agency’s search and rescue mission was concluded at 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday. A two-storey building under construction at No. 37 Agungi-Ajiran Road, Lekki collapsed at ...

Kashamu seeks to restrain Federal Govt from seizing N20b property Senator Buruji Kashamu has asked the Federal High Court in Lagos to restrain the Federal Government from seizing his property worth N20 billion for alleged drug trafficking allegations. In a fresh application, he sought an order of perpetual injunction restraining the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the Attorney-General ...

Solving The Problem Of Affordable Housing In Nigeria Rolling out mind boggling policies capable of solving identified problems in the housing and other sub-sectors problem has been lack of sincerity of purpose by successive governments to implement the policies, George Okojie writes More worrisome is that the trend has continued under governments that lay claims to democratic credentials despite the ...

Doctors at the Central Hospital in Benin City battled to save the life of one Alex Aigbogun who was stabbed in the stomach by his landlord, simply identified as Enogieru. The victim rushed to the hospital at about 9:00am Wednesday by policemen in a Hilux van. Eyewitnesses said the incident occurred at about 12:00midnight, but the victim’s family has no ...

The Senate President, Olubukola Saraki, after an unsuccessful attempt to challenge the jurisdiction of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) to put him under criminal trial, began his defence against the 13-count false assets declaration charge. Prosecution counsel led by Mr Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) briefed the tribunal how the accused person, while in office as the executive governor of Kwara ...

The President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has directed Kano university to provide sufficient plots of land to build residential quarters and other required facilities for the professors. According to premiumtimesng, Mr. Dangote, who is the pro-chancellor of the university, also granted approval for the Kano University of Science Technology, KUST, to recruit 15 professors from across the world, with ...

The Building Collapse Prevention Guild (BCPG) has called on the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to support professionals in the built environment in the fight against substandard building construction in the country. In a statement signed by the National President, BCPG, Mr. KunleAwobodu, the guild noted that the construction industry needed the wind of change that was currently blowing across ...

The Ogun State Government, through the Ministry of Rural Development, has provided water schemes for 23 communities to ensure uninterrupted flow of potable water. The Director of Rural Electrification in the ministry, Mr. AbdulRasaq Ojetola, said in a statement that the schemes comprised 7.5KVA power generator, tanks, pipes and fetching platforms, among others. “Government has deemed it fit to provide ...