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Apr 29, 2025

Prescription Drug Boom Shoots Fidson's Quarterly Profit 213% Higher

[Premium Times] Finance income, essentially the interest Fidson earned on loans and receivables, jumped to N45.5 billion from N16.3 billion.

Apr 29, 2025

Comedian Okey Bakassi Appointed Traditional Ruler in Imo Community

[Premium Times] Okey Bakassi, the only Nigerian entertainer recently assuming a traditional ruler role, was a senior special adviser (SSA) on entertainment matters to former Imo State Governor Ikedi Ohakim.

Apr 29, 2025

Eight Killed On Nigerian Highway As Bus Collides With Tanker

[Premium Times] Six people were injured in the accident, an official said.

Apr 29, 2025

Socialite Aisha Achimugu to Surrender to EFCC One Month After Being Declared Wanted

[Premium Times] This comes about a month after the EFCC declared Ms Achimigu wanted in a public notice over criminal allegations against her.

Apr 29, 2025

Poverty Worsened Under You in Anambra, Sanwo-Olu Blasts Obi

[Leadership] Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has hit the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, over his criticism of the poverty index under President Bola Tinubu's administration.

Apr 29, 2025

Discos Must Be Accountable for 112 Electricity Deaths in 2024 - CJN

[Leadership] The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, has urged the judiciary to hold electricity distribution companies (DisCos) accountable for the 112 electricity-related deaths and 95 injuries recorded in 2024.

Apr 29, 2025

Court Sentences Late Gospel Singer Osinachi's Husband to Death By Hanging

[This Day] Abuja -- A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, on Monday sentenced Peter Nwachukwu, the husband of late gospel singer, Osinachi, to death by hanging over the death of the late musician.

Apr 29, 2025

Atiku's Presidential Ambition Fueling PDP's Internal Crisis, Says Group

[Vanguard] Abuja -- The Good Governance Group, a PDP pressure group, has attributed the ongoing internal crisis within the party to the ambition of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to secure the presidency at every election cycle.

Apr 29, 2025

WHO Issues New Recommendations to End Rising 'Medicalised' FGM

[Premium Times] The statement noted that in 2020, an estimated 52 million girls and women were subjected to FGM at the hands of health workers

Apr 29, 2025

Cedi By Cedi, Hereafter Ghana's Digital Crowdfunding Efforts Saves Vulnerable Lives

[Nigeria Health Watch] For two long years, Hansawu, a mother from Tishigu in Ghana's Northern region, witnessed her young son, Umar's, health decline. Despite numerous hospital visits and doctors' consultations, Umar's symptoms were still undiagnosed.