Author: Vreporters
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Analysts Project $32 billion as revenue for COVID-19 vaccine in 2021
As the US government prepares to authorize immediate distribution of Covid-19 vaccine, Wall Street analysts are projecting pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna will generate $32 billion in Covid-19 vaccine revenue, next year alone. According to Wall Street analyst, Morgan Stanley, Pfizer (PFE) by itself is projected to make $19 billion in Covid-19 vaccine revenue in…
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Just In: Many feared dead in Ondo Petrol Tanker Explosion
Tragedy struck in Akungba-Akoko, headquarters of Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State on Friday as many people died in a fatal road accident, Daily Sun reports. The actual number of the victims could not be ascertained as at press time but a source put the total figure of casualties at 12. Although,…
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Stolen Ogun Assembly Mace Recovered in Lagos
Lagos State Police Command has recovered Ogun State House of Assembly mace which was carted away by suspected hoodlums. The mace was recovered in Abule Ado area of Lagos state at about 8.30am on Friday December 11. It was reportedly thrown out from a Toyota Siena Space Wagon. The mace has been handed over to…
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Cybercrime: Management Expels Convicted Fedpoffa Student
Convicted Offa Poly Student
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LASU Increases Tuition Fee By 168%
Lagos State University has increased tuition of new students by 168 per cent, The PUNCH reports. It was gathered that new students of the university would pay N67,048.50 as against N25,000 previously paid. When contacted on the telephone, the spokesperson for LASU, Adekoya Ademola, confirmed the increment of tuition for new students. He, however, clarified…
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Strike: FG, ASUU Reschedule Meeting
The hope for university students to return to classes has again been dashed, as the meeting between the Federal Government and the leadership of the Academic Staff of Universities (ASUU), scheduled to hold yesterday, Wednesday, December 9, was been postponed. According to the Director, Press and Public Relations, of the Labour ministry, Charles Akpan, the…
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Offa Poly Student convicted over internet fraud
A student of the Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State, Oladipo Opeyemi Juwon, has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment for his involvement in internet scam. Juwon, an HND student at the Federal Polytechnic was sentenced on Thursday, December 10, by Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin. The sentence followed…
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Money Laundering: Over N454 million Seized From Nigerian Man at Kenya’s Airport
A High Court in Kenya on Wednesday, December 9, ordered over N454million confiscated from a Nigerian man at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to be deposited at Central Bank of Kenya pending money laundering investigations. Mauzu Bala was arrested on Friday, December 4, with USD 880,000, 60,000 euros and N63,000 (N454,303,000 all together), stacked in…
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COVID-19, ASUU Strike, Naira Marley, Who is Laycon Top List of Google Search for 2020 [Full List]
Technology giant, Google has released its list of top online searches of 2020 by Nigerians and Coronavirus, ASUU strike, Rema, Naira Marley, and Hushpuppi topped the list. Coronavirus topped online searches by Nigerians in 2020, followed by US election, US president-elect, Joe Biden, Google Classroom, ASUU, Zoom Live, Rema, Naira Marley, Rahama Sadua, and Hushpuppi.…
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COVID-19 FG Disburses N12.4 Billion to 978 MSMEs
The Federal Government said, it has disbursed over N12.4 billion to owners of 978 Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), through the Bank of Industry in other to cushion the effect of COVID-19 pandemic. Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo, disclosed this at the opening ceremony of the 12th National Council on Industry,…