archiveSeptember 2019

The Lagos State Government has said that all public and private schools in the state must resume for the first term of the 2019/2020 academic session on Monday, September 9, 2019. It said that by so doing, they would be adhering to the Uniform School Calendar approved by the state...

Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, on Friday, flagged-off the light up Ibadan project, noting that the State embarked on the deployment of smart LED street lighting technology to fight crimes in the state capital and other parts of the state. He said that the project would improve the security...

    Determined to boost financial inclusion, Access Bank Plc says it is targeting a customer base of 65 million by 2022, through financial digital products. Mr Chinedu Onuoha, Access Bank Head, Business Development and Planning, gave the figure at the unveiling of ‘Access Money Wallet’, a product introduced to...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has injected 321.11million dollars into the retail Secondary Market Intervention Sales (SMIS). The CBN Director of Corporate Communications, Mr Isaac Okorafor, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Friday. Okorafor said the figures indicated that the sum of CNY33.3 million was also...

  The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSAN) on Friday called on governments, regulatory agencies, public and private sector, and the citizenry to collaborate in promoting the ease of doing business. The President of the ICSAN, Mr Bode Ayeku, who made the call at a news conference in Lagos,...

The bearish trend continued on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday for the third consecutive day, with the market capitalisation losing N51 billion. Consequently, the market capitalisation of listed equities which opened at N13.257 trillion shed N51 billion to close at N13.206 trillion even as the All-Share Index lost...

Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama has criticised his South African counterpart Naledi Pandor’s comments that many Nigerians in South Africa indulge in criminal acts. “It is precisely this kind of outrageous stigmatisation of a people from senior government officials that fuel xenophobia and embolden criminals,” Onyeama tweeted on Friday....

Atiku Abubakar, 2019 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the death of Robert Mugabe, the immediate past President of Zimbabwe. Mugabe who was the longest-serving president of Zimbabwe, and forced to resign in 2017 following a protracted intraparty crisis, died at the age of 95....

  Access BankGroup’s audited first half (H1) results released to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Thursday showed Gross Earnings of N324.4 billion, up 28 per cent from N253.0 billion in the corresponding period of 2018. The growth in gross earnings was driven by 46 per cent increase in interest...

Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, spends between N80 and N85 million every month on power supply, amounting to about N1 billion annually, the school’s vice chancellor has said. The VC, Ademola Tayo, a professor, said this in an interview with PREMIUM TIMES ahead of the 60th anniversary celebration of the...