Author: Prompt News

The Acting Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu has been honoured with the prestigious Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria, ICAN’s 2020 Merit Award. The award was presented to him by ICAN President, Mazi Nnamdi Okwuadigbo on Saturday, May 16, 2020, virtually through an ICAN Webinar. The award presentation through electronic video conferencing system, the first of its kind in the history of ICAN, featured nine awardees and lasted one hour, thirty minutes. Okwuadigbo, while justifying the conferment of the Award on Magu, said that the EFCC’s Chairman is an icon ‘’who has…

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Airtel Nigeria has extended its work-from-home policy by two weeks in a bid to safeguard them from contracting coronavirus and stem the spread of the virus. Airtel Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mr Segun Ogunsanya, made this known in a statement on Saturday in Lagos. He said that the company’s employees particularly affected were those in Lagos, Ogun State and Abuja, the epicenters of COVID-19 infections in Nigeria. ” They have been told to continue to work from home untill the end of May,” he said Ogunsanya urged the company’s employees in others parts of the country to observe the nationwide…

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Access Bank Plc has rewarded 10 customers with one million naira each and 28 female customers with N100,000 each in its DiamondXtra monthly draw. Mr Victor Etuokwu, the bank’s Executive Director, Retail Banking, said in a statement on Saturday that the draw was held at the bank’s headquarters in Lagos. He said the DiamondXtra initiative was the bank’s little way of creating value and meeting the needs of its customers during these trying times. “We understand what our customers are going through this period, and the bank is committed to providing them with a world class banking experience via our…

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Dr Yakubu Bityong, a former member of the Kaduna State House of Assembly is dead.Bityong who represented Kaura Constituency in the Assembly from 2011 to 2019, died on Friday night in Kaduna at the age of 56.A political associate of the deceased, Yakubu Umaru-Spider, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Kaduna.Umaru-Spider, a former Secretary of Kaura Local Government, said that Bityong was two weeks ago diagnosed with lungs complications and placed on treatment.“He became normal and continued with his life until yesterday (Friday), when he became ill again.“He was taken to General hospital Unguwan Boro, around 8:30…

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Another batch of 53 Nigerian returnees from Ghana and Benin Republic arrived Seme Border Post in Lagos State on Saturday, the News Agency of Nigeria reports (NAN) reports. NAN gathered that 39 out of the 53 returnees who came from Ghana were brought in two luxurious buses with registration numbers, Lagos KTU 833XY and LSD 614 YR. NAN also gathered that the remaining 14 Nigerian returnees from Benin Republic were dropped by different vehicles at the border by Beninoise officials. An official of Port Health Services (PHS) in Seme, who pleaded anonymity, told NAN that the Nigerian returnees, comprising 39…

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Health workers in Lagos are basking in the euphoria of success in Lagos following a successful delivery of a baby boy by a positive COVID-19 patient. The baby was delivered through a caesarean section at the Gbagada isolation centre on Saturday. Announcing the great feat recorded by the State Government through her health workers, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said the feat is another validation of the Government’s position that it would stamp out the Coronavirus virus from the State. He said: “I bring you great news from our isolation facilities. Today, a pregnant COVID19 positive patient was delivered of a baby…

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552 Borno ex-workers who retired from 2016 to April 2020 have been enrolled for pension payments following the directive of Governor Babagana Umara Zulum. Borno State Head of Civil Service, Barr. Simon C. Malgwi, stated this at a press briefing on Saturday in Maiduguri. Mr Malgwi stated that Governor Babagana Umara Zulum, having been considerably disturbed by the pension problems in the state, had to personally intervene in order to address the problem and ensure a hitch-free system of pension administration in the state. The Head of Service explained that the 552 pensioners enrolled are inclusive of the 387 complaints…

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By Amosu Adeboye, LAGOS Former Juventus midfielder, Mohamed Sissoko, has urged the club to sign Nigeria forward Victor Osimhen from French side Lille this summer. Osimhen has been linked with a number of European giants following an impressive campaign in the French Ligue 1 with Lille. The 21-year-old scored 18 goals and recorded five assists in 38 appearances across all competitions for Les Dogues. “I really like Victor Osimhen of Lille, for me that boy is very strong,” Sissoko told TuttoJuve. “He is a striker that we will continue to talk about in the next few years. While in midfield,…

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President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday at the State House, Abuja, received the Madagascan native formulation against the Covid-19 pandemic, and reiterated that he will listen to science before allowing traditional or any new medicines to be administered on Nigerians.At an audience meeting with President Umaro Sissoco Embalo of Guinea Bissau who brought along with him the samples of the traditional medicine as shared to African nations by Madagascar, President Buhari said his position on all such herbal or traditional medicinal postulates had remained the same. “We have our institutions, systems and processes in the country. Any such formulations should be sent…

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Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, features in the pantheon of accomplished Nigerian journalists no doubt. In his days of ‘’truth-telling’’ and before the hex of unclean spirits in Aso Rock, Adesina was the man from miyshore – the straight place. He was loved. He cut the persona of a light bearer. But why has the ‘’kulikuli exponent’’ so unravelled? By the way, it was Reuben Abati, Adesina’s predecessor, who regaled us with the tale of paranormal activities at Aso Rock. Abati in ‘Rituals, blood and death: The spiritual side of Aso Rock’, said: ‘’When presidents make mistakes, they are probably victims…

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