archiveSeptember 22, 2016

The campaign to support underserved children without limbs is expected to attract greater attention this year as Abuja hosts the 2016 Stanbic IBTC ‘Together 4 A Limb’ charity walk. The first edition held in Lagos last year. The annual signature corporate social investment initiative of the Stanbic IBTC Group will...

Royal Exchange Insurance Plc said it generated a gross written premium of N10.79 billion in its 2015 financial year end, showing a 14 per cent increase compared to N9.43 billion posted in 2014 financial year, even as it promised to leverage on micro-insurance to capture more Nigerians in the grassroots....

Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, has commended the judiciary for its steadfastness in protecting the sanctity of the ballot and upholding itself as the bastion of the nation’s democracy. His comment came on Thursday afternoon following the judgement of the Appeal Court which upheld the earlier judgement of the...

Nigeria has hunted down 700,000 firms that have never paid taxes as the country seeks new revenue sources to offset low oil prices that have pushed Africa's biggest economy into its first recession in more than 20 years. The Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Tunde...

Says Nigeria will reverse effects of climate change President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his signing of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change has demonstrated Nigeria’s commitment to a global effort to reverse the effects of the negative trend. He made the remark today while addressing the opening of the...

The umbrella body for all advertisers in Nigeria, The Advertisers Association of Nigeria (ADVAN) is poised to scale up its goal of growing Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the country with the introduction and expansion of some categories of this year’s ADVAN marketing excellence awards. Commentators have indentified one...

MultiChoice Nigeria staged another interactive session for its DStv subscribers in the Egbeda/Dopemu area of Lagos. The session aptly called Customer Forum, is a regular customer engagement initiative by MultiChoice Nigeria that provides the opportunity for subscribers and representatives of the organisation to have face-to-face dialogues in a bid to...

All the 36 state governors in the country have expressed their support for the Finance Minister, Mrs   Kemi Adeosun and Budget and National Planning Minister, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma as against the call for their removal as a result of the recession ravaging the country. The governors made their stance...

The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal on Thursday held that Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State was validly elected as governor of the state. The five-man panel presided over by Jimmi Olukayode Bada, in a unanimous decision resolved all the five issues raised by Sylva and the All...

The equities market dropped by 0.17 per cent on Thursday as investors traded on speculation following the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) decision to retain its rates. The Nigerian Stock Market All Share Index (NSE ASI) declined by 0.17 per cent to close at 28,166.42 basis points from 28,214.57 basis...