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The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig Gen Buba Marwa (retd.), has urged the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and other political leaders in the country to undertake a drug test. “Running for public offices is a big responsibility. You shouldn’t be in this important assignment for the public, and your head is filled up because of drugs,” he told Sanwo-Olu during a courtesy visit at the Lagos House, Marina. The NDLEA chair encouraged the governor to take the lead in demonstrating to the country the importance of taking “integrity” drug tests. In the build-up to the…

GOtv football fanatics are in for an exciting weekend with selected matches from the 2020/21 FA Cup quarterfinal clashes scheduled for Saturday, 20 to Sunday, 21 March, airing live on SuperSport. The pick of matches from this weekend’s FA Cup action sees Everton host Manchester City at Goodison Park on Saturday, 20th March at 6:30pm on SuperSport Football (channel 31). This will be the first FA Cup meeting of these teams since 1981 and a first knockout game between them since the Citizens put the Toffees out of the 2015-16 League Cup. The next match to look forward to is the last quarterfinal match which is…

GOtv Nigeria has announced a reward promo that will see its GOtv Max customers win over N10million in cash and prizes. Tagged ‘Awoof Overload’, the promo is part of the company’s effort to cushion economic pressures and reward customers with exciting and functional prizes.GOtv Awoof Overload promotion runs till 31st of March 2021 and is open to new and existing customers who pay for a minimum of one month’s subscription on GOtv Max worth N3,600. These customers will be eligible to participate in a weekly draw for a chance to win N100,000 for school fees, N50,000 cash prize, N10,000 shopping…

Organised Labour in Nigeria is calling on both government and private sector employers to implement the various insurance policies designed as part of welfare packages aimed at increasing workers productivity. The call was made by deputy president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero at a briefing in honour of late General secretary of the Medical and health workers Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, Silas Adamu. MHWUN President, Biobelemoye Josiah berates the Nigerian Government over poor state of federal and states roads while promising to uphold the legacy of the late labour leader. Silas Adamu died along with his wife and…

Lagos, Nigeria, March 17, 2021: BizWatch Nigeria, (https://bizwatchnigeria.ng/) Nigeria’s leading business platform is set to hold the first of its webinar series, themed “Building Financial Resilience with Insurance Solutions Amid COVID-19”. With the COVID-19 disruption, households and small businesses need to make efforts to transfer their risks to protect themselves from uncertainties through insurance. The Nigerian Insurance Industry is a massive industry covering various issues from fire to auto accidents, death, oil and gas leakages, and so on.They also provide insurance plans that cover households and SMEs-the backbone of the Nigerian economy.The webinar holding on Wednesday, March 31, 2021, will be…

Nigeria is facing many challenges, some bordering on insecurity in the South which have recently contributed to agitations for self-determination. Some Yoruba youths on Monday removed Nigerian flags and replaced them with Oduduwa Republic flags around Teslim Balogun Stadium, in Surulere, Lagos State. This was seen in a viral video shared on Instagram. Nigeria is facing many challenges, some bordering on insecurity in the South which have recently contributed to agitations for self-determination.  The unabated killing and kidnapping of people in the South-West by suspected Fulani herdsmen and the Nigerian government’s failure to solve the problem have also caused tensions…

Ahead of 2023 general elections, an ‘awoist’ and a two-time governorship candidate in Ogun State, who has contested under the Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN and the Social Democratic Party, SDP in 2015 and 2019 respectively, Otunba Rotimi Paseda has passively directed all members of his structure across the 36 states in Nigeria to join the All Progressive Congress, APC. Making waves in APC at national level, LeadNewsNg gathers on Tuesday from a source closed to Rotimi Paseda that; Paseda, through the National Secretary of UPN, Alhaji Abubarka Abdulahi Sokoto has instructed all UPN members and structures in all the…

A growing number of countries are fully or partially suspending the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, as the World Health Organization (WHO) is reviewing the available vaccine data. “This does not necessarily mean these events are linked to COVID-19 vaccination, but it’s routine practice to investigate them, and it shows that the surveillance system works and that effective controls are in place,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday. The WHO’s Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety is reviewing the available data and is scheduled to meet on Tuesday for further discussion. Tedros said the WHO was aware multiple countries had…

{Lagos, Nigeria. 15.03.2021}- Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc (NIBSS) today announced the launch of the NQR payment solution; an innovative payment platform implemented on behalf of all financial service providers. The New Quick Response code solution offers a robust platform that delivers instant value for P2B and P2P transactions by simply scanning to pay. It is a solution that will unify the available closed QR Code schemes in the country for consistent user experience and accelerated digital adoption. This Payment Solution designed to be “low cost” for merchants would see shoppers scan a QR code generated by a seller to…

First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider, has announced the launch of First Global Transfer (FGT) to promote international transfer of funds across its subsidiaries in sub-Saharan Africa. The Bank’s subsidiaries in Africa include FBNBank DRC, FBNBank Ghana, FBNBank Gambia, FBNBank Guinea, FBNBank Sierra-Leone, FBNBank Senegal. The First Global Transfer (FGT) initiative is specifically designed to ensure safe, timely and improved efficiency in the transfer of funds across the network of FirstBank subsidiaries in Africa. The FGT is not restricted to FirstBank and FBNBank Customers alone but it is also open to every individual resident…