archiveMarch 2021

  Access Bank Plc. say has unveiled a reward scheme for its customers to promote diaspora remittances into the country.The bank’s Executive Director, Retail Banking, Mr Victor Etuokwu, disclosed this in a statement in Lagos on Thursday. Etuokwu said that the bank would be rewarding customers with five naira on...

The Debt Management Office (DMO) on Thursday listed its third Sovereign Sukuk, a N162.557 billion seven-year 11.200 per cent Al Ijarah Sukuk, due by 2027 on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and the FMDQ Securities Exchange. In a statement by the DMO, the Sukuk which at the time of issuance,...

  explores potential listing of mobile money business within four years.   Airtel Africa, a leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money services, with a presence in 14 countries across Africa, today announced the signing of an agreement under which The Rise Fund, the global impact investing platform of leading...

The Makurdi Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on March 16 2021, arraigned one Chidi Aniekwe Emmanuel before Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court,  Makurdi, Benue State on a four count charge  of conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretense to the tune of...

The Lagos State Government has said it is determined to ensure that the Lagos Rail Mass Transit Red Line becomes operational latest by the fourth quarter of 2022. The Managing Director, Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Mrs Abimbola Akinajo, disclosed this in statement on Tuesday in Lagos after the...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has directed operators in the financial system, especially bankers, to declare their assets by June 1, 2021 at the most Its Executive Chairman, Abdulrashed Bawa, gave the deadline while addressing State House correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja. He...

The National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Wednesday maintained that vaccinations against COVID-19 should not be stopped in Nigeria despite fears over the side effects of the jabs. Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, Director-General of the agency who said this, believes that with the number of lives lost...

    The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on escalated 33.3 per cent unemployment rate in the country was a direct confirmation that the much-orchestrated claims of massive job creation by the Buhari administration and the ruling All...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 179 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 161,074. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the country have tested 1,684,305 people...

 Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has decided to raise the minimum wages of government employees, according to Egyptian Presidential spokesperson Bassam Rady.Rady said in a statement that Sisi gave the directive for the increment of wages at a meeting with the prime minister and finance minister late on Monday. The Egyptian...