October 14, 2022

[GIST] 15 teams for Edo schools football tourney

[GIST] 15 teams for Edo schools football tourney

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Fifteen teams will take part in the first edition of the Edo State Secondary Schools Football Championship, which holds from October 15 to 29. The tournament, the brainchild of Edo Peoples Forum 2020, a diaspora group, will have 12 male teams and three female teams jostling for honours. The male schools are Ayoguiri Grammer School,


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[GIST] Construction planks flatten tricycle, rider bedridden, tackles CCECC

[GIST] Construction planks flatten tricycle, rider bedridden, tackles CCECC

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A woman, Funmilayo Akande, has accused the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation of abandoning her after construction planks fell on her tricycle and injured her. PUNCH Metro gathered that CCECC, which is in charge of the construction of the Lagos-Ibadan Railway, is currently building an overhead bridge around Agbado Crossing in the Ifo Local Government


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[GIST] Dangote refinery to boost forex earnings

[GIST] Dangote refinery to boost forex earnings

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The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority has expressed optimism that the 650,000 barrels per day capacity refinery being built by Dangote Industries Limited will significantly help strengthen the Nigerian naira once it is fully operational. The NMDPRA said this when representatives of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery paid a visit in Abuja, to present


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[GIST] Trailer kills Plateau traders, tricycle passenger, crushes shops

[GIST] Trailer kills Plateau traders, tricycle passenger, crushes shops

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Three persons, including two roadside traders and a tricycle passenger, were on Thursday killed by a trailer along Zaria Road in Jos, Plateau State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the articulated vehicle also destroyed some shops after it crashed on them. Eyewitnesses said the incident happened after the trailer, which was parked on one side of


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[GIST] OAU alumni donate $10,000 to LUTH

[GIST] OAU alumni donate $10,000 to LUTH

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The Maternal and Reproductive Health Research Collective of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, has received a boost as the Dallas branch of the Obafemi Awolowo University Alumni Association in the United States donated $10,000 to support its initiative. The alumni said the gift was meant to provide medical support for the Save Our Red Cells


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[GIST] PoS transactions soar to N15tn in two years

[GIST] PoS transactions soar to N15tn in two years

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Point of Sales transactions reached a N15tn mark in two years, according to data culled from the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc website. According to the data of transactions between September 2020 and 2021, the total PoS transactions stood at N6.54tn.  Also, transactions rose to N8.923tn from September 2021 to 2022. The aggregate of both


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[GIST] Elect competent leaders, activist advises youths

[GIST] Elect competent leaders, activist advises youths

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Social activist, Aisha Yesufu, has advised youths to shun political apathy and elect competent leaders that will solve the country’s problems in the 2023 elections. She gave this advice in a statement on Thursday, during a summit organised by The Future Project through its YMonitor Accountability Programme held at Onikan, Lagos. Yesufu, at the event,


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