Tipped to improve on last season’s strong finish, Villa were hammered 5-1 on Tyneside in a shockingly bad start to their Premier League campaign. But Unai Emery’s side got back on track in the Villa Park sunshine as goals from John McGinn, Douglas Luiz, Leon Bailey and Jhon Duran brushed ...
Following the identification of at least four new genes linked to the disease, a blood test may help better identify women who are at risk for breast cancer. Important genes like BRCA1 are already well-known to be associated to breast cancer. However, researchers have recently discovered four previously undiscovered genes, ...
The Code of Conduct Bureau, has said doing private business during official hours is punishable under the law. The State Director, FCT CCB, Suleiman Usman, issued the warning on Thursday at a one-day enlightenment campaign in Abuja. He warned that the bureau will take necessary measures against any civil servant ...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 51 new cases of circulating variant poliovirus (cVPV2) have been recorded in Nigeria from January to August 2023. Walter Mulombo, the WHO country representative in Nigeria, who spoke in Kaduna on Thursday, said 47 of the 51 cases were recorded in the north-west. The ...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released fresh operational mechanisms for the sale of forex by Bureau De Change (BDCs) operators within the country. This is coming 25 months after Godwin Emefiele, the suspended CBN governor, announced the discontinuance of foreign exchange sales to that segment of the forex ...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it is closely monitoring BA.2.86, a new variant of COVID-19, detected in Israel, Denmark and the United States. In a bulletin on Thursday, the WHO said is it classifying the new version of the various as a variant under monitoring (VUM) due to the ...
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has concluded its series of train-the-trainers workshop for staff members of 206 universities in the country. The training was to ensure effective delivery of the new curriculum- the Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS), developed by the commission for Nigerian universities. Prof. Emeritus Peter ...
The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) has predicted that Nigeria will experience stronger economic growth as business activities increase in the remaining part of the year. Laoye Jaiyeola, chief executive officer (CEO) of NESG, spoke at the third Edition of the Mid-Year Review of 2023 Economic Outlook, organised by the ...
The naira, Nigeria’s legal tender, is currently trading at N890 per dollar at the parallel section of the foreign exchange (FX) market. The figure represents an appreciation of 60 or 6.3 percent from the N950 it traded last week. Speaking to TheCable on Wednesday afternoon, Bureaux De Change (BDC) operators ...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited has secured a $3 billion emergency crude repayment loan to support the naira and stabilise the foreign exchange market. NNPC Limited secured the crude-for-cash funding from the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. While the details are still sketchy, TheCable understands ...
