archiveMay 2019

Two weeks after listing on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), MTN Nigeria Communications Plc on Friday announced a revenue of N1.04 trillion for the financial year ended December 31, 2018. The revenue is higher when compared with the N887 billion achieved in the comparative period of 2017. A breakdown of...

Keystone Bank Limited has again reaffirmed its commitment to providing support for the real sector as it recently partnered Facebook via its partners, Rabbington Media, to organize a capacity building training on digital marketing for its Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) customers in Lagos State. According to the lender,...

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed shock and sadness over the passing away of the President of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), Francis Johnson, on Friday. The President, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, joined PENGASSAN and...

Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), on Friday, announced the release of results of 4,536 candidates that participated in the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME). The result were released following a confirmation by the committee set up by JAMB to investigate 4,760 candidates whose results were withheld due to...

  People in tobacco business to apply for licensee   The Federal Government is also tinkering with the idea of imposing a 50 per cent tax on tobacco products as part of efforts to tackle tobacco-induced cancer in the country even as companies and individuals involved in tobacco business have...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has out with come out with findings on forensic investigations of Oando Plc over underhand dealings and directed among others the resignation of the affected board members. The Commission also barred the company’s Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO), Mr Wale Tinubu and his Deputy...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has proscribed the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in the state. The Chief of Staff to the governor, Bisi Ilaka, announced the proscription on Friday. He said the measure was due to violence and crisis within the union. The crisis started when...

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Enugu State Council, has urged Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State to appoint core professionals into his media team in his second tenure. The NUJ made the appeal in a communiqué issued at the end of its May Congress in Enugu. The communiqué jointly...

The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has advised workers in the state to be change agents, assuring them that their concerns would be addressed, but that the workforce must reciprocate his good intention through hard work and innovations to bring about the desired changes and development. He gave the...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed that its Anchor Borrowers Programme now caters for 1,059,604 smallholder farmers in the country. The Anchor Borrowers Programme, which was launched in November 2015, was designed to build partnerships between smallholder farmers and reliable large-scale agro-processors, with a view to increasing agricultural...