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  Charts new growth strategy Leading capital management firm, Zedcrest Capital Group, has announced the appointments of Babatunde Sanda and Stella Duru to its Board of Directors as part of its corporate governance strategy and business expansion drive. According to the company’s Group Managing Director, Adedayo Amzat, the organisation was...

The All Progressives Congress’s (APC) governorship candidate in Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, visited the paediatric section of the Gbagada General Hospital on Christmas day to lift children battling various health conditions. Sanwo-Olu also visited the Gbaja Hospital for Maternal and Child Care in Surulere, where he donated gifts and...

  With its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) currently standing at $136 billion, Lagos economy will record four per cent growth in 2019 while the national economy will grow by 2.8 per cent, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted. The prediction is contained in an address the state governor, Mr....

Former Vice President of Nigeria and the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 Presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday hailed the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate for admitting his failure in the fight against corruption. The Waziri of Adamawa in a statement he...

Contrary to the perception that there is paucity of space for qualified candidates in the nation’s universities, the Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede, has said that the available space of 600,000 in over 150 universities across the country could accommodate the biggest chunk of...

  The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced a trading surplus of ₦9.85 billion for September, as against the deficit of ₦3.90 billion, recorded in August. The report of the performance was contained in the newly released September 2018 edition of the NNPC Monthly Financial and Operations Report. The...

  The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, believes only a government that understands how to run the economy can save the country from its challenges. Atiku said this in a piece on Sunday entitled ‘My Takeaways From Budget 2019’. In the critique, the former...

  A meeting of the PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar with the South-east business community in Aba, Abia State, has set a new tone in the 2019 campaigns, writes Emmanuel Ugwu For a man, who is involved in virtually every aspect of business and a major player in the...

The Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc (nahco aviance) has appointed Mrs. Olatokunbo Adenike Fagbemi as its new Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer following the adoption of a new group structure by the Board of Directors. Her appointment was announced in a notice to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) by the...

  Allays fears about 2019 general elections Calls for removal of Babalakin as the head of the renegotiation with ASUU   The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) stated on Sunday that it had no plans to suspend the eight-week-old strike action, insisting that the Federal Government had not shown...