archiveOctober 20, 2021

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has signed a grant agreement worth $500,000 dollars with Y’ello Digital Financial Services (YDFS), a fintech subsidiary of MTN, for a study on the economic, religious and social factors hampering access to finance by women in northern Nigeria. This is contained in a statement jointly...

    Pursuant to the CBN Act 2007 and as part of its policy measures to address rising youth unemployment and underemployment in the country, the Central Bank (CBN) has developed the Tertiary Institutions Entrepreneurship Scheme (TIES), in partnership with Nigerian polytechnics and universities to harness the potential of graduate...

  bemoans government’s non-committal to bringing killers of protesters to justice.   The wife of the senior pastor of the Living Faith Church a.k.a Winners Chapel, Mrs Faith Oyedepo, has said that God will avenge the death of young Nigerians who were murdered during EndSARS protests by officers of the...

flags off construction of NASC office complex   President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the National Assembly leadership would continue to support the legislature through the provision of needed infrastructure to ensure that the institution delivers on its mandate to Nigerians. Lawan made this known on Wednesday...

  Keynote address by the MD/CEO NDIC, Mr. Bello Hassan at the opening ceremony of the 18th edition of the workshop for Business Editors and Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria (FICAN) on Wednesday 20th October OCTOBER, 2021 in Ibadan Protocols It is my great pleasure to welcome all the distinguished...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Wednesday hailed the police and the Nigerian Army for the role they played in the #EndSARS protests last year, even as he maintained that the incident at the Lekki toll plaza last year was a “phantom massacre with no bodies”....

The Nigerian equities market closed trading on Wednesday after the public holiday on a positive note with the market capitalisation improving by N55 billion. The bullish performance was buoyed by investors’ bargain hunting in the industrial goods and insurance sectors. Specifically, the market capitalisation which opened N21.471 trillion rose by...

  All is now set for the various activities to mark this year’s Ecobank Day across 33 African countries where it operates. The Ecobank Day which is a flagship annual event when staff of the pan African bank show commitment and give back to local communities where the bank has...

  By Uchenna Eletuo, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) The calm ambience currently being experienced at the exotic Lagos Lekki toll gate one year after the #EndSARS protest that erupted in October 2020 speaks volume of feats a society can accomplish when people act in unison. For years since its...

The Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, October 18, 2021, arraigned one Olaniyan Gbenga Amos ( aka Crime Alert ) and his company, Detorrid Heritage Investment Limited before Justice Uche Agomoh of the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State on a...