archiveSeptember 2020

The 2020 Annual General Meeting of Financial Correspondents Association of Nigeria (FICAN) and swearing of new Exco/induction of new members took place today, Saturday, September 19, 2020. The events which followed Covid-19 safety protocols religiously had the outgoing exco members, incoming exco members, the electoral committee members and new members...

The Managing Director, Ecobank Nigeria, Patrick Akinwuntan has reiterated that the future of Nigerian banking would continue to be shaped by innovations and technology disruptions, stressing that only financial institutions that are amenable to such transformation will remain relevant in the sector. According to Akinwuntan, there was no way banks...

  A former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has said that promising people free and fair elections was not done with by ‘mere lip service’. He said such promise should be accompanied by commitment and should be demonstrated by “way of equal access and restriction to every stakeholder.” Atiku was responding...

The Akwa Ibom State government has directed the full resumption of State Primary, Secondary and Tertiary institutions on the 28th September, 2020 even as it has directed them all to commence the process of school resumption on the 21st of September, 2020. It added that only pupils in primary six...

The approval granted Emirates Airlines by the Federal Government to operate into Nigeria after the recent reopening of Nigeria’s airspace to international operations, has been reversed effective Monday, September 21, 2020. The Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, while announcing the reversal Saturday through his official Twitter handle noted: “Emirates...

 The management of The Polytechnic, Ibadan (TPI) has terminated the appointment of its lecturer, Kelani  Omotosho, over alleged sexual misconduct with a former student.  This is contained in a statement signed by the institution’s Registrar, Mrs Modupe Fawale in Ibadan on Saturday. The management said the lecturer, from the department of...

 The  Nigerian government has said it considers it disrespectful to the Sovereignty of the country for any outside country to apply punitive measures such as visas restriction on its citizens. The Nigerian government made this known in a statement issued by Mr Ferdinand Nwonye, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced 221 new infections of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Friday. According to it, the new cases are confirmed from 18 states in the country. The new infections brought the total number...

Atiku Abubakar, a former presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has condemned the alleged siege on Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike and some PDP governors by police in Edo State. It would be recalled that PDP had in a statement on Friday raised the alarm that the hotel...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), caucus in the House of Representatives has condemned the clampdown on its governors by security officers in Edo ahead of Saturday’s governorship election. The leader of the caucus, Rep. Kingsley Chinda (PDP-Rivers), in a statement said that such activities of security agencies were not acceptable....