After 31 years of marriage without having a child, 62-year-old Mrs. Fummi Akinade gave birth to a boy in a private hospital in Lagos. The infant was conceived using in vitro fertilization (IVF) and delivered at 37 weeks on Tuesday, February 6, 2024, through cesarean surgery. Akinade talked to reporters …
Read More »FG to Float Special Bank for Youths, Reform NYSC
The federal government of Nigeria has declared plans to change the chances and prospects available to young people in the country. One of the projects is to overhaul the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to make it more focused on preparing young people to launch their own enterprises or land …
Read More »BOI to support manufacturers, SMEs with N200bn
The Bank of Industry has disclosed plans to disburse three categories of funding totalling N200bn to support manufacturers and businesses across the country. According to the bank in a statement, the funds included the Presidential Conditional Grant Scheme, the FGN MSME Intervention Fund and the FGN Manufacturing Sector Fund. It …
Read More »Banks dollar sale drops, naira weakens to 1,479/dollar
The total value of transactions recorded at the official Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market fell from $465.29m on Tuesday and $203.93m on Wednesday, data obtained from FMDQ Exchange showed on Thursday. This indicates a 56 per cent drop in the value of transactions recorded on the FMDQ platform which records …
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