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High volume transactions in the stocks of some banks and insurance companies, last week, lifted the volume of shares traded as 914.4 million shares valued at N15.3 billion were exchanged in 18,021 deals. The turnover was higher than 823 million units valued at N12.2 billion which changed hands in 17,482 deals the previous week. At the close of transactions on Friday, the financial services industry (measured by volume) led the activity chart with 723 million shares valued at N5.2 billion traded in 9,122 deals. The sector contributed 79.08 per cent to the total market turnover. The consumer goods sector followed,…
5 mins ago NASA’s most powerful rocket yet is set to blast off Monday on the maiden voyage of a mission to take humans back to the Moon, and eventually to Mars. 23 mins ago According to the Edo State administration, 1,551 films from 94 different nations were submitted for the upcoming international film festival, which will take place at the Victor Uwaifo Creative Hub and other locations in the state from September 1 to September 4, 2022. According to Dare Ukinebo, the managing director of the Edo State Skills… 28 mins ago Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo of the Federal…
NASA’s most powerful rocket yet is set to blast off Monday on the maiden voyage of a mission to take humans back to the Moon, and eventually to Mars. The post NASA shoots for the Moon, on its way to Mars appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News. Source link
In a surprise appearance at the 2022 MTV VMAs, Johnny Depp cracks jokes saying that he needed the work as the Moonman. Nearly three months after a verdict in his defamation case against his ex-wife Amber Heard was rendered, the actor made a surprise n appearance at the 2022 MTV VMAs dressed as an astronaut. […] The post Johnny Depp Makes VMA Joke About Needing The Job As The Moonman appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News. Source link
Shiri Takes Charge As 2022 AMAA Jury President The 2022 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), the President of the Jury, Keith Shiri, is in charge of AMAA Jurors meeting currently holding in Kigali, Rwanda. The meeting is to decide nominees for the 24 categories of the awards. The categories include, Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Editing and Best Sound. Shiri, a founding juror at the AMAA, and an international film curator and programme advisor to several international film festivals, hinted that the nominations would be announced in September. A well-travelled film curator, Shiri is…
The Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA) has expressed its readiness to address the challenge of uninsured vehicles plying Nigerian roads across the 36 states. The immediate past chairman of the association, Ganiyu Musa, disclosed this at a briefing to give an account of his stewardship for the past two years. He said that the NIA was engaging with road traffic officers to constrain integration of the third-party motor insurance across the states. Musa said the industry was burdened by what it is losing to insurance racketeers and non-insurance of vehicles in the country. He said discussions were ongoing with the states…
There is something about political orientation in Nigeria, which is also affected by the level of civilization. Inside that civilization are the levels of literacy and standard practice of the people’s norms and values. Whenever we mention politics, what is in the mind of an average Nigerian is an abstract phenomenon, yet, critical to public administration; it sure means different things to different people. To some, politics is just about how to grab state resources in a legitimate manner. So, people seek politics for the sake of power, and the only way to go about it is to play politics;…
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Sunday, inaugurated a 250-seater lecture hall at the newly upgraded Lagos State University of Education (LASUED), in Ijanikin, Badagry Division. Sanwo-Olu inaugurated the hall during the 15th coronation anniversary of the Oloto of Oto-Awori Kingdom, Oba Josiah Aina. The lecture hall was donated by Aina to mark the anniversary. The governor said that the Oba’s gesture was worthy of emulation, as the facility would be complementary to those being built on the campus by the state government. He said that the buildings being erected on the campus were part of the projects initiated after the school…
Police in the US city of Detroit on Sunday caught a suspect believed to have shot four people at “random”, killing three of them, authorities said. The Midwestern city’s police chief, James White, told media that the first three victims — two women and a man — were found shot multiple times in separate locations around Detroit in the early hours of the morning. A fourth man spotted the suspect peering into car windows and told him to stop, White said. The suspect shot him once. Three of the victims died and one survived, police told local media. The shootings…
Housing professionals have expressed optimism that the real estate sector could serve as a veritable tool for economic transformation if the enabling environment is created and synergies between the government and private sector is developed to maximise value creation in the industry. The operatives argued that there is connection between land, infrastructural development, technology, data and property taxation and effort to harness them for overall development. Speaking at a forum, entitled: ‘Real Estate as Tool for Economic Transformation’ organised by the Alumni Association of Lagos Business School, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Global Property and Facilities International Limited, Dr. MKO…