Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the country’s workers to stay off work for a week starting later this month amid rising coronavirus infection and death numbers. The government task force on Wednesday reported 1,028 COVID deaths during the previous 24 hours, the highest number since the start of the pandemic. That brought Russia’s total…
PayPal Holdings Inc has offered to buy digital pinboard site Pinterest Inc for $45bn, people familiar with the matter said, a combination that could herald more tie-ups between financial technology and social media companies in e-commerce. The deal talks revealed on Wednesday come as internet shoppers increasingly buy items they see on social media, often…
Kenya has lifted a nationwide curfew that has been in place since March 2020 to curb the spread of the coronavirus, President Uhuru Kenyatta announced. The East African nation, which has a population of 54 million, has reported 252,199 cases of COVID-19 and 5,233 deaths but inoculation rates remain low, with only 4.6 percent of…
Sterling Bank Plc has blazed the trail as the first African corporate organisation to power its headquarters with the Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) energy technology as its primary source of energy. Group Head, Energy, Sterling Bank, Dele Fasemo who disclosed this in a statement issued by the bank recently, said the major milestone is a…
A car procession is currently going on at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos in memory of the #EndSARS protests of last year. This is despite a ban on protests in Lagos and the heavy presence of armed police personnel at the tollgate. The activists who turned up at the tollgate with their cars were seen…
The group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has called on the Nigerian Police Force to release a journalist and other protesters who were arrested at the Lekki Tollgate on Wednesday. In a statement via its official Twitter handle, SERAP called on the authorities to release those being held while noting that they had the right…
Trust Africa News, By Ayomide Otitoju Governor of Oyo State, ‘Seyi Makinde, has felicitated with Muslims on the occasion of this year’s Eid-ul-Maulud celebration, advising that the unity of purpose, virtues of kindness, humility, and peaceful co-existence exemplified by the Holy Prophet Mohammed (SAW) be emulated. The governor explained that on the occasion of the…
Fidelity Bank Plc has said it is considering raising $500m from the international debt capital market through the issuance of unsecured notes. A statement by its Company Secretary, Ezinwa Unuigboje, said the company intended to list the notes on the Irish Stock Exchange, adding that the proceeds would be used for general corporate purposes, including…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has said it spent a total of N32.56bn on pipeline security and maintenance from February to July this year. The NNPC spent N5.81bn on pipeline security and management in February; N5.32bn in March; N2.64bn in April; N5.26bn in May; N6.17bn in June, and N7.35bn in July. A total of 261…
