Nigeria’s telecommunications industry regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) at the weekend said that it had modified the process of replacing SIM cards. The Director of Zonal Operations of the commission, Mrs. Amina Shehu, who gave this hint at a Consumer Conversation Programme in Lafia, Nasarawa State, explained that the step was necessitated by the […]
The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, at the weekend described the Appeal Court judgement in the case between the agency and the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited over levies payable to the maritime regulator as desirable to the nation’s justice system. The Court of Appeal […]
The latest analysis on global misery level published by Steve Hanke, an economist from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, United States, indicated that Nigeria ranked as the sixth most miserable country in the world. In his writing in the Forbes magazine of March 28, titled ‘Hanke’s Annual Misery Index 2018: The World’s Saddest (And Happiest) […]
Following the successful completion of its merger with Diamond Bank, Access Bank Plc on Sunday unveiled its new brand logo to an enthusiastic audience at a social event in Lagos. The bank’s Executive, Personal Banking, Mr Victor Etuokwu, who spoke on the latest re-branding of deposit money bank (DMB), disclosed that 400 branches would be […]
The chief executive officer of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has canvassed the need for new global regulations governing the internet. Specifically, he recommended tough rules on hateful and violent content, election integrity, privacy and data portability, among other regulatory imperatives. In a statement that was published as an op-ed in some newspapers, the Facebook chief said the […]
The Securities and exchange Commission (SEC) on Sunday disclosed that out of the over 90 initiatives outlined in the 10-Year Capital Market Master Plan, 66 initiatives had been flagged off since year 2015 with 13 of them completed so far. The Acting Director General of the SEC, Ms. Mary Uduk was quoted in a statement […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has extended the deadline for the issuance of dividend warrants to 31st December 2019. According to the capital market regulator, the extension is to enable relevant stakeholders deliberate on and address all outstanding issues relating to the practice. The Commission, in a circular hoisted on its website, stated that […]
Nigeria and some other West African countries are to benefit from the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved US$20 million equity investment in Uhuru Growth Fund 1, a first-generation fund sponsored by Uhuru Partners Limited. The Uhuru Growth Fund 1 is a first-generation fund sponsored by Uhuru Partners Limited, a private equity firm, focused on high growth middle […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday launched a Micro Pension Plan for operators in the nation’s informal sector with a promise to address the constraints undermining the efficiency of the pension system. The President said that government initiated the latest plan in order to ensure that those in the informal sector were captured in the pension […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has expressed the readiness of the Federal Government to collaborate with the Government of Netherlands on improved seeds /seedlings in order to boost agricultural productivity in the country. The Minister disclosed this Thursday when he hosted a delegation of Netherlands private investors led by the […]