archiveJune 2017

The Nigerian Stock Exchange All Share Index (NSE ASI) and the Market Capitalization decreased by 0.46 per cent on the last trading day of the week, while the year-to-date return stood at 23.23 per cent. The All-Share Index closed at 33,117.48 against the previous close of 33,269.84 while Market Capitalization...

The Federal Government has come up with it calls the) which will be operated from July the 1st, 2017 until the 31st of March, 2018 which is targeted at offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to those in default to regularise their tax affairs. The Acting President of the...

The N-Power assessment tests will commence on the 1st of July, 2017. This was made known on Friday afternoon via the programme twitter handle, @npower_ng. It explained that it is an online assessment and that each applicant will receive an SMS a day before his/her test. “Applicants who applied for...

The Federal Government says it has released N420.2 million to the Nigeria film industry popularly called Nollywood to improve and support aspiring practitioners. According to a statement issued by the Deputy Director of Information, Federal Ministry of Finance, Patricia Deworitshe, on Friday in Abuja, the money, which is the second...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said it has signed a deal with Schlumberger to provide $700 million for the development of two oil fields in the country’s crude-rich southern part of the country. According to NNPC in a statement published on its website, the Anyala and Madu fields, estimated...

In a recent panel on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum on Africa, Senegal’s President Macky Sall called Ecobank ‘our bank’. The bank was founded to encourage regional integration. Today, it has the largest footprint of any bank in Africa, and is still a rare ‘pan-African conglomerate’. As such,...

The Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson on Friday presented a cheque of N100 million as take off grant to the State Education Development Trust Fund Board. The gesture was part of efforts to sustain the policies and programmes in the education sector. Dickson, who presented the cheque during the...

Unity Bank donates relief materials to Abuja based school for IDPs Unity Bank has donated relief materials to The Praxis Catholic School for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) and Vulnerable Children during an excursion of the students to the bank’s regional office in Abuja recently. A delegation of the school led...

The Nigerian Senate has assured foreign investors of a conducive working environment in Nigeria which it believes will help to grow their businesses and improve bilateral confidence even as it has vowed to pass laws that would enable investors feel comfortable doing business in Nigeria. Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu,...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (Youth Wing) on Thursday called on the Federal Government to probe the attack in the building of the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Ikotun-Egbe , Lagos and the recent incident on House on the Rock in Abuja. The organisation said it had uncovered, thorough...