Day: February 8, 2021

BUA Procures 1m AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Doses For Nigerians

Dawood Rabiu

  Foods and infrastructure conglomerates with headquarters in Nigeria, BUA Group, said it has procured one million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines for Nigeria. The procurement, the company said in a statement to Platforms Africa, was made through the AFREXIM vaccine programme in partnership with CACOVID. The doses, expected to be delivered by next week. The delivery will be the first in Nigeria since the COVID-19 vaccines became available. The vaccine, BUA said in a statement by O’tega Ogra, Group Head, Corporate Communications, would be distributed free to Nigerians. Speaking…

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BREAKING: Oil Prices Surge Pass $60 Per Barrel, Highest In Over A Year

Efe Wellington

  Brent oil prices on Monday shot past $60 a barrel for the first time in more than a year. This came with investors growing increasingly optimistic about demand as the global economy recovers from the coronavirus pandemic. The commodity climbed 1.26 percent to $60.19 a barrel — its highest since January last year — as asset markets rallied on the back of vaccine rollouts, slowing virus infections and hopes that President Joe Biden’s huge stimulus proposal will be passed by US lawmakers. Crude has been on the rise for…

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Oil prices hit $60 per barrel, One-year high

Efe Wellington

  Oil prices on Monday hit $60 per barrel (approx), the highest point in the last one year at the first trading session for the week. Brent futures sold at $59.95 per barrel, boosted by supply cuts among OPEC+ members and hopes that the stimulus package in play at the world’s largest economy would see the light of the day. At the time of writing this report, Brent crude traded at $59.95 a barrel thereby touching its one-year high. Also U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures rallied by 1%, to…

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How Ex-NBA Head, APC Chairman were gruesomely murdered within 24 hours

Tade Salako

  “His (Nwakwo) bulky frame was lying lifeless inside his office in the pool of his congealed blood with deep cut of a machete on his neck.” …Hit with a plank on his head, the APC Chairman collapsed and was confirmed dead at the hospital”   Details have emerged on how two prominent Nigerians; the former Chairman of the Owerri chapter of the Nigeria Bar Association, Ndionyema Nwankwo, and Ward Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Gboko South, Gboko Local Government Area, Tersoo Ahu, were gruesomely murdered within 24 hours.…

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