archiveMay 13, 2020

Keystone Bank (Nigeria) Limited has launched an online platform to empower Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) with knowledge to manage and grow their businesses in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The bank disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos, remarking that one way to identify an...

Debt Management Office (DMO) is out with the new guidelines on external and domestic borrowing by federal, states and Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The new guidelines make it compulsory  for the three tiers of government to seek prior approval of their various executive councils and the legislative arms and...

    The new Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, has said that his primary allegiance is to President Muhammadu Buhari and not the public. The Chief of Staff stated this on Wednesday when he spoke briefly to State House Correspondents at the Presidential Villa. He started...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo has faulted the state House of Assembly for probing former Gov. Emeka Ihedioha’s administration over alleged missing N19 .63 billion Local Government fund. The state Secretary of the party, Mr Ray Emeana, in a press conference in Owerri on Wednesday, said the lawmakers...

The Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a Permanent Secretary in the Oyo State Ministry of Agriculture, Alhaji Rasaq Kolawole, for allegedly defrauding one Ibikunle Alonge of N4,400.000 (Four Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira). Kolawole was arraigned before Justice Aderonke Aderemi of the...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has congratulated Prof. Ibrahim Gambari on his appointment as the new Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. APC National Publicity Secretary,  Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu said this in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday in Abuja. “Without any iota of doubt, this appointment has, once...

The trial of Kenny Martins who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)  for alleged N7.74bn Police Equipment Fund (PEF) fraud has been rescheduled till June 30, 2020. Justice Modupe Adebiyi of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, had earlier scheduled Tuesday, April...

Mr Mimshach Obioha, an Economist, has called for the establishment of a fund to serve as a post COVID-19 stimulus package for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to revive the economy after the pandemic. Obioha who is the Executive Director, Ventures Platform Foundation (VPF), an enterprise support and development...

  Facebook on Tuesday May 12 published the fifth edition of its Community Standards Enforcement Report, providing metrics  on how well it enforced its policies from October 2019 through March 2020. Announcing the report in a Facebook Newsroom post, Guy Rosen, Vice President, Integrity said the company has in the...

A traditional medicine practitioner, Dr Adedamola Bank-Kadejo, on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to provide an enabling environment to enhance the use of herbal medicine in Nigeria. Bank-Kadejo, also the Registrar, Nigerian Council of Physicians of Natural Medicine (NCPNM), spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, against...