archiveSeptember 2016

Africa is a continent where cooking is portrayed to be a highly specialized area of expertise which was (and still is) well handled by mothers and grandmothers. Growing up in a typical African (Nigerian) household, “African food” is all I know (and by “know”, I mean can compete for). Talk...

South Africa's MTN denied it paid a bribe to Nigerian officials to reduce its fine to 330 billion naira ($1.05 billion) as part of settling a dispute over disconnecting unregistered SIM cards in the West African country. MTN said in a statement on Friday that there had been allegations that...

A socio-political organisation, Bayelsa Elders Forum, has congratulated the state governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, over his victory at the Court of Appeal. The BEF in a statement by its President, Chief Ebi Johnson, hailed the Court of Appeal for safeguarding democracy in the state, but however, berated the candidate of...

The Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI)has refused to shared in the optimism in some quarters  that the country would be out of the current economic recession confronting  it by the fourth quarter of this year. The member of the Organised Private Sector (OPS) in a statement signed by...

The Lagos State Chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) has unveiled plans to deepen the skill-set of communication and media practitioners in new media with Lagos Digital PR Summit; first of its king in Sub Saharan Africa. In partnership with Microsoft, Google, TrendWatching, Red Media Africa and...

  Calls for support of developmental partners in fight against corruption President Muhammadu Buhari has called on development partners to take up the fight against corruption by returning ill-gotten financial assets and halting future illicit financial flows to their countries. Speaking in New York at the meeting of the United...

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...