archiveAugust 28, 2019

  The Bank of Industry (BOI) says it has provided financial assistance amounting to N678 billion to more than two million enterprises in the country in the last four years. Dr Aliyu Dikko, the Chairman of BOI said this on Wednesday in Abuja at a roundtable organised by the bank...

  The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has commencement the 2019 edition of the NSE Essay Competition with call for entries from students in Senior Secondary Schools in Nigeria from Monday, August 26, 2019. According to a statement from the Exchange, this year, each student will write on the topic, “How...

The Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Ahmed Idris on Wednesday said the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is a public institution and must be subjected to rules of engagement applicable to public institutions. He said the agency was also expected to key into all financial policies with no exemptions,...

Flood has destroyed more than 300 houses in Daura and environs in Katsina State, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A NAN correspondent, who visited the town, reports that some of the houses have been totally brought down while water had submerged several others. NAN found that some residents...

Nigeria’s leading financial institution, Zenith Bank Plc, has introduced the Zenith Children’s Account (ZECA) Education Loan to assist parents pay their children/wards school fees as the new school session begins. The loan offering, which is disbursed directly to the account of the beneficiary’s school, comes at a very competitive interest...

By Lansar Aghaji & Co In a bid to invoke transparency, earn the citizen's trust and fight corruption (in its many forms), virtually all the countries of the world (world bank puts the statistics at over 150 countries) provide a structured medium for ensuring that elected, appointed, recruited or contracted...

At least seven persons were abducted by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on the Abuja-Kaduna expressway on Tuesday evening. Among the persons kidnapped were three final year students of the faculty of law, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Kaduna. Although the names of the student were not made public, the school’s...

President of the Senate, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, has declared that the ninth National Assembly will give its maximum support to the Administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to achieve a better, prosperous and secured Nigeria for the good of the citizens. “We will make sure the ninth National Assembly gives him...

  The All Progressives Congress (APC) has shifted the date for the Bayelsa governorship primary from Thursday, August 29 to Saturday, August 31, 2019. This was contained in a terse statement on Wednesday by the National Publicity Secretary, Lanre Issa-Onilu. “The party has also adopted the Direct mode of primary...

  The African Development Bank (AfDB) has advised Nigeria to formulate appropriate and sustainable strategies to promote agro-industrialisation to foster domestic and export competitiveness in the agro-business industry. The statement by the bank’s Communication and External Relations Department, reported Prof. Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Senior Special Advisor on Industrialisation to AfDB President...