archiveMay 6, 2017

...insists Nigerians are plotting ‘civilian coup’ against President Amidst controversies on the health status of President Muhammdu Buhari, a pressure group under the aegis of Coalition of Civil Society Organizations for Good Governance, (CCSOGG), on Saturday described the demands for his resignation as misplaced. According to CCSOGG, "no organ of...

The NSE All-Share Index and Market Capitalization of the Nigerian Stock Exchange appreciated by 1.85 per cent and 1.75 per cent to close the week at 26,235.63 and N9.069 trillion respectively. Similarly, all other Indices finished higher during the week with the exception the NSE Insurance and NSE Industrial Goods...

Nigeria's Wema Bank is still open to mergers and acquisitions to build scale after it dropped a bid to buy a rival last year, but is focused on growing its own retail business, its chief executive told Reuters on Friday. Segun Oloketuyi put in a bid for Keystone Bank, one...

No traces of explosives were found on the remains of French victims from an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean in May 2016 , a source close to the French investigation told AFP on Friday. The revelation, the source said, "closes the door" on a theory advanced by Egypt...

• Nigeria parades few nominations Nominees for the ten categories in the 2017 African Banker Awards have been announced. According to the information released by the organisers of the award, the larger African banks still dominate the nominees list, with banks from Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco and South Africa performing strongly...