A World Bank Mission, comprising of 10 Executive Directors, will tomorrow arrive Nigeria to hold high-level discussions with the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo; the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun and some Governors over the Bank’s ongoing projects in the country. The Minister’s Special Adviser, Media and Communications, Oluyinka Akintunde, stated that the World Bank’s […]
In furtherance of its sustained efforts to promote trade as a key component of national development and integration, the National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANTS) at the weekend inaugurated its Zonal Executive Officers in Ibadan, Oyo State. The occasioned was also used to commission the association’s new zonal office complex in Ibadan, South West Nigeria. […]
Keystone Bank has responded to an appeal by a 12-year-old Nigerian ICT whiz-kid, Oluwatomisin Jasmin Ogunnubi, with $4,000 financial assistance to boost her educational pursuit. The initiative is part of the lender’s sustained commitment to promote educational development and empower Nigerian youths in their efforts to become leading agents of transformation in the global community. […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has reported 892,547 new active mobile phone lines in March this year, thereby raising the total active mobile phone lines in the country to 148,854,338. The total active mobile lines in February stood at 147,961,791. These figures were among the key information contained in the Commission’s monthly Subscribers Operator Data […]
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola today assured that government would fulfil its promise of stabilising electricity supply in the country with more 90 projects in the power transmission subsector to be completed before the year ends. Fashola, who gave the assurance while commissioning the Odogunyan 2×60MVA, 132/33KV transmission substation in […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has sealed the premises of some telecom companies in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, and Calabar in Cross River State, for violating the guidelines for the deployment of 5.4GHz frequency band in the states. The Commission had on 3rd April, 2018 issued a public notice, based on the guidelines for […]
L – R : Karimot Tukur, Head, Consumer Banking, Diamond Bank Plc; Catherine Onwusonye, Diamondxtra Regional Star prize winner; and Uzoma Dozie, CEO, Diamond Bank Plc at the Diamondxtra Season 10 Regional Draw prize presentation ceremony held in Lagos recently.
L-R: Regional Bank Head, Victoria Island, Fidelity Bank Plc, Chinwe Ighodalu with female entrepreneurs at ‘Impact Her’ workshop where she delivered a lecture to them on ‘Loan Readiness For Women In Business’ in Lagos…Friday
The West African Securities Regulatory Authorities (WASRA) at the weekend agreed to converge existing rules of capital market regulatory agencies within the region as a strategic option of ensuring cross-border listing of companies The move is to allow foreign companies carry out their businesses within the region and assist in deepening the West African sub-regional capital […]
The Managing Director of the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing for Agriculture Lending, (NIRSAL), Mr. Aliyu Abdulhameed, has said that the initiative’s support through the Anchor Borrowers Programme of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to smallholder farmers will increase their income by about N135 billion this year. Making the forecast at a PULA Insurance workshop […]