archiveNovember 3, 2020

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE or The Exchange) has announced that the fifth edition of the NSE Market Data Workshop in partnership with InfoWARE Limited will now hold on Friday, November 13, 2020. The event themed, Handling Shocks in the Capital Market: A Quantitative Risk Management Approach Using Market Data”...

  VP, Governors to interact on Zonal and State basis In furtherance of the resolution of an emergency meeting of the National Economic Council last week, the Ad-Hoc Committee set up to engage with youths, civil society organizations, and different strands of leadership across the nation in the wake of...

The bulls on Tuesday regained dominance on the Nigerian Stock Exchange with the market capitalisation crossing N16 trillion mark. Specifically, the market capitalisation increased by N132 billion or 0.83 per cent to close at N16.063 trillion against N15.931 trillion posted on Monday. Also, the All-Share which opened at 30,479.39 inched...

to pay N231m as compensation for road dualisation maternity leave for pregnant, nursing mothers now six months The Government of Oyo State has re-awarded the contract for the completion of the 7.2 kilometre Idi Ape-Basorun-Akobo- Odogbo Barracks road through the Alternative Project Funding Approach. The contract, according to the state's...

 The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to present the 2014 National Conference Report to the National Assembly. The party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja, said that the authentic materials for a genuine restructuring of Nigeria were contained in the...

  The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, has said that the total public debts of Nigeria would hit N38 trillion by December 2021. The Minister made the revelation in her presentation to the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts on Tuesday in Abuja. According...

  The development and sustenance of viable enterprises is no longer dependent on the size of the corporation and related factors but sound ethical practices imbibed by all stakeholders, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Prof. Osinbajo stated this on Tuesday at the virtual 2020 Conference of the Institute...

  Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has rolled out distribution of prepaid meters for consumers in its franchise areas of FCT, Kogi, Nasarawa and Niger states. Mr Ernest Mupwaya, Managing Director of AEDC, said at the inauguration on Tuesday in Abuja that the project was under the National Mass Metering...

solicit for two-year moratorium Operators in the Nigerian pharmaceutical industry have commended the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the disbursement of the N100 billion Health Sector Intervention fund. Speaking at a virtual conference organised by the Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria (FICAN) in Lagos on Tuesday, pharmaceutical industry stakeholders...

First Bank of Nigeria Plc says its mobile banking application, FirstMobile, has won the 2020 Best Mobile Banking App award 2020 in the Global Finance Best Digital Bank Awards 2020. Mr Gbenga Shobo, Deputy Managing Director of the bank, disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency...