Dangote Sugar Refinery has posted N131.95 billion revenue in its unaudited financial results for the half year (H1) ended June 30, 2021. The Group Managing Director/CEO of the refinery, Ravindra Singhvi, made the disclosure in a statement on Sunday. The company’s revenue rose by 27.8 per cent in contrast to N103.23 billion recorded in the…
One of the female housemates in the ongoing Season Six of the Big Brother Naija reality TV show, Saskay, has revealed that she brought three vibrators to the show. This was after another female housemate, Angel, had asked if it was against the rules to have a vibrator inside the BBNaija house. An argument ensued…
A key airport in southern Afghanistan has come under rocket fire as government forces struggle against Taliban assaults on several major cities. Flights out of Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city, were halted after three rockets fired by the Taliban struck the airport on Sunday before dawn. Airport chief Massoud Pashtun said two of those rockets hit…
Myanmar’s military ruler has promised multi-party elections and the lifting of the state of emergency by August 2023, extending an initial timeline given when he deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government earlier this year. The general’s announcement in a televised address on Sunday, six months after the February 1 coup, would place…
Jakarta city officials say two critically endangered male Sumatran tigers at a zoo in Indonesia’s capital tested positive for coronavirus but are expected to recover. Nine-year-old Tino and 12-year-old Hari were receiving medication and remained under close observation by veterinarians at Ragunan Zoo, the head of Jakarta Parks and Urban Forest Agency, Suzi Marsitawati, said…
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) says six civilians were killed in a rebel attack in the country’s northeast. “This morning at dawn elements from the 3R (Return, Reclamation, Rehabilitation) launched a large-scale attack against Central African army positions in the village of Mann,” the spokesperson for the UN’s 12,000-strong…
Brazil’s seven-day average of coronavirus-related deaths has dropped below 1,000 for the first time since January, when a brutal second wave of the pandemic was taking hold of the South American nation. The country has registered more than 19.8 million COVID-19 cases and more than 555,400 deaths since the crisis began, according to data from…
* 30 million cases reduced to zero Amid the sombreatmosphere over the global health space in the past 30 months due to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, One news that has generated so much optimism recently is thof China’s certification as malaria-free by the World Health Organization. This certification came after 70 years of consistent efforts…
ABUJA, NIGERIA; JULY 31, 2021 – As part of its contribution toward helping to reduce the housing shortage in Nigeria, Stratech Properties Limited, a real estate brokerage company, has launched new home ownership products for doctors and other critical off-taker groups. In his address during the products launch which took place at the company’s stand…
