archiveMarch 2021

Shoprite Group has announced this in its unaudited results for the 26 weeks to 27 December 2020 in which sale of merchandise increased by 4.7% to R83.4 billion while its trading profit increased by 18.3% to R4.7 billion. The Group confirms that the terms of sale have been concluded for...

Nigeria’s unemployment rate hit a new record high at 33.3 per cent in fourth quarter (Q4) 2020 from 27.1 recorded in second quarter (Q2) 2020. According to Q4 unemployment report released by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday, a total of 23.18 million persons in Nigeria either did...

My father told me when I was around, the day He took me to the river sat me down to pray Right there in the water to the sound of pain From the mud he fashioned me a crown of clay It’s why no one can ever take this sound...

Download Crown of Clay - Two of Nigeria’s most respected rappers Vector and MI Abaga team up together for this heavy hip-hop joint titled “Crown of Clay”. The name of this new track is also the name of their collaborative EP that is coming very soon. This is the next track from Vector...

THE Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Thursday, launched a new enrolment portal for the N-Power Batch C program. The new enrolment portal, under the National Social Investment Management System, NASIMS, according to the ministry, was designed “to ensure transparency, institutional memory and dynamic impact assessment of...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Wednesday staged a nationwide protest over proposed amendments to the minimum wage for Nigerian workers.  This protest which is being coordinated from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, is said to be holding following attempts by some lawmakers at the National Assembly to remove...

A strategic security expert, Rev. Ladi Thompson, has bemoaned what he termed “conflicting media report” on terror and banditry, saying the confusion it creates among Nigerians is complicating the Federal Government’s progress on its war against terror and banditry. The cleric also charged the FG on the need to figure...

The Federal Government, through the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, has budgeted the sum of N10.6bn to transport COVID-19 vaccine to the 36 states and the 774 local government areas as well as the Federal Capital Territory and the six area councils. Also, about N1.4bn was set aside for...