archiveAugust 2019

    As reconstruction work begins on Monday (September 2) on the 600-metres stretch between Ojodu Berger and the beginning of Kara Bridge, raffic would be diverted at the Lagos end of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Adedamola Kuti, who stated this Thursday during an inspection...

  MTN says, over 36.6 million unbanked customers will benefit from its super-agent network service named ‘MoMo Agent’ as part of Financial Inclusion Drive in the country. Mr. Usoro Usoro, Director, MTN Y’ello Digital Financial Services (YDFS) disclosed this at the launch of the ‘MoMo Agent’ in Abuja in Thursday....

Japan and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have announced a joint target of 3.5 billion dollars under the Enhanced Private Sector Assistance (EPSA4) for Africa initiative. A statement by AfDB’s s Communication and External Relations Department on Friday said the development was made known at the 7thTokyo International Conference on...

A Point of Sale (PoS) operator was on Wednesday shot dead by a two-man armed robbery gang at Oke Ogba area of Akure, the Ondo State capital. The incident came in less than 24 hours after a middle-aged worker of a publishing company was killed in a night robbery at...

The Police Service Commission has suspended the ongoing process of recruitment of 10,000 Constables into the Nigeria Police Force. The Commission explained that the suspension would enable it finalise the remaining stage of the exercise. The Commission also urged candidates to await further directives from it. This is contained in...

  The Managing Director, Ecobank Nigeria,Patrick Akinwuntan has called on bankers in the country to make deliberate efforts to reposition their skill  sets and knowledge-scope in order to meet with the challenges of a fast-changing business environment and marketplace. Akinwuntan, who was the guest speaker at the 2019 graduates induction...

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has advised military and paramilitary personnel to work for the security of their financial future even as it warned against investing in fraudulent schemes that are mouth-watering, but are actually not capital market products. SEC Acting Director General, Ms. Mary Uduk, who spoke in Abuja,...

  Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the deployment of aerial surveillance helicopters to patrol major cities in the South-West. Adamu, in a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, on Thursday said the aerial surveillance was aimed at securing lives and property in...

  the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, has again come up with some claims about President Muhammadu Buhari, concluding that he would not return to Nigeria. Kanu, in a statement said that Buhari, who he described as Jubril-Buhari, has been encircled and trapped by...

  Mr. Kenneth Udeze, the National Chairman of Action Alliance, has been kidnapped by armed attackers in Abuja. Udeze was kidnapped Friday morning outside a Zenith Bank branch in Dutse Alhaji, Abuja, his wife, Genevieve, according  to a report by PREMIUM TIMES. Mrs Udeze said her husband woke up Friday...