archiveDecember 2022

Bigi Drinks, Nigeria’s most consumer-centric brand with 13 favourite flavours of refreshing soft drinks for every moment, from the stable of Rite Foods Limited, has flagged off a digital CSR campaign tagged BRAK 2022 to reward, celebrate and improve the living conditions of Nigerians and consumers nationwide. BRAK means Bigi’s...

  The Zarephath Women of God’s Plan Missions (ZWGM), an NGO, has started training widows on free skills acquisition to make them gainfully engaged and enhance their financial independence. The three-day skills acquisition training held on Dec. 1, 2 and 3 was part of the activities to mark the one-year...

  promises improved and efficient process Lagos State Signage and Advertisement Agency (LASAA), the agency saddled with the mandate to regulate advertisement displays in Lagos State, has announced the release of its 2023 mobile advert  stickers for branded vehicles in the state. Managing Director of LASAA, Prince Adedamola Docemo, in...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has pegged maximum cash withdrawal per week via Automated Teller Machine (ATM) N100,000 subject to a maximum of N20,000 cash withdrawal per day. The new policy introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria revealed that banks would only load N200 notes and lower...

    Human rights lawyer Femi Falana has criticised President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration for failing to propose a money bill to the National Assembly before proceeding with the remaking of the country’s currency. The senior advocate argued in a statement titled ‘Presidential endorsement not sufficient to legitimise naira redesign’ that...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said oil and gas can no longer feed Nigeria, considering the nation’s growing population. Obasanjo disclosed this at the weekend, when the leaders of the apex socio-cultural group in Tiv land of Benue State, Mzough U Tiv (MUT) paid him an appreciation visit at his...

Suspected hoodlums on Sunday morning attacked another office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Oru West Local Government in Imo State. The attack affected the Conference Room where office furniture and fittings were destroyed. This is the seventh attack on INEC facilities in five States of the Federation...

  Pan African business magnate and renowned entrepreneur, Ichie (Dr) Nnaeto Orazulike OON has won this year’s FATE Foundation Model Entrepreneur of the Year (FME) Award. According to Fate Foundation, the organisers the award was initiated 2001 to celebrate entrepreneurs who are significantly contributing to the nation’s socio-economic growth and...

The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, said on Saturday that he has no apologise to render anybody for praising President Muhammadu Buhari for approving the release of funds owed to states in the Niger Delta since 1999. Wike, who spoke at the 2022 Rivers State Honours and Awards ceremony in...

The Director-General of the Debt Management Office (DMO), Ms Patience Oniha, has stressed the need for Nigeria to operate an efficient tax administration to tackle revenue challenges. Oniha who spoke at the 2022 Capital Market Correspondents Association of Nigeria (CAMCAN) workshop with the theme: "Nigeria's Public Debt and the Capital...