Economy/Business
African Development Bank loans Nigeria almost $300m
The African Development BankAfDB had approved the sum of $288.5 million (£227m) for Nigeria on Friday to help the nation tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigate its impact on people, …
Makinde Sets to Roll Out First Batch of Digitized C of O’s
Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde will on Monday June 1st 2020 distribute the first set of digitized Certificate of Occupancy to successful applicants under the Oyo State Home Owners …
OSDAG Scores Makinde Big Lists Achievements In One Year
May 29: Seyi Makinde scores big at one year celebration
Nigeria’s economy expands 1.87pc in the first quarter amid global crisis
Nigeria’s economy grew 1.87 percent in the first three months of 2020 from a year earlier, the statistics office said on Monday, shrinking from the previous quarter as oil prices …
We Paid N350M Counterpart Fund For World Bank Project On Rural Access Road -Makinde
…project to provide 1,600 km of rural roads—Coordinator …we promptly paid N350m fund to aid project—Makinde Oyo State Governor, Engr Seyi Makinde, on Wednesday revealed that his administration paid …
Construction of Four New Bus Terminals In Ibadan: Group lauds Makinde for opening economic frontiers in Oyo State
The Oyo State Executive Council, on Tuesday, approved the award of the contract for the construction of four Ultra-modern Bus Terminals to be located in Iwo Road, Challenge, New Ife …
Testing stopped, Notting Hill Carnival cancelled. Follow updates regarding the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK and around the world
There have been 30,615 deaths across all settings in the UK of people who tested positive for coronavirus. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced the 539 daily increase as he gave the Downing …
Black People Four Times More Likely To Die From Coronavirus Than White People in England
The data cover England and Wales and were released on Thursday.
US Stocks record best of April earnings since 1987 as Amazon, Apple, S&P 500 hit a jump on advent of coronavirus drug
With most of the nation on lockdown, technology companies like Amazon and Apple benefited as consumers found other ways to spend their money. Apple said on Thursday that its revenue grew by nearly 1 …
Poverty in the UK: what reports show in latest guide to the facts and figures
Being in poverty means different things to different people. That’s one of the reasons we have so many possible ways of measuring it in the UK. So one of the …