MTN launches IPO on GSE Today
Telecommunication company, MTN, will today, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 launch its Initial Public Offer (IPO) on the Ghana Stock Exchange to acquire a 4G spectrum. The exercise is to allow the public to own...
View ArticleNIC to introduce package to provide regular pay for pensioners
The National Insurance Commission (NIC) says it has advanced moves to introduce a life insurance package to provide regular pay for pensioners. According to the Commission, it is taking steps to help...
View ArticleNigeria takes steps to increase power generation
Nigeria has signalled increasing shift towards the use of coal for the generation of electricity to power its economy as it invests N30 billion in the sector. The West African country has coal...
View ArticleMinister: Minimum Wage May Not Materialise In September
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige has said that the new national minimum wage may not materialise in September as earlier envisaged. Ngige, who disclosed this to newsmen on...
View ArticleDemocracy Day: NUPENG calls for good governance
The leadership of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) felicitated Nigeria, as the it marks 19 years of unbroken democracy after return to civil rule from a long protracted...
View ArticleNigeria: NAICOM confirms tremendous improvement by insurance sector in three...
The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM), says the sector has improved tremendously under the present dispensation. Mr Rasaaq Salami, the Deputy Director/ Head, Corporate Affairs of NAICOM, said this...
View ArticleNigeria: Buhari’s job approval rating drops below 39.6% – NOIPolls
Today NOIPolls, Nigeria’s premier public opinion polling firm, releases its compilation of public opinion polls on a monthly series of presidential approval rating to appraise the job performance of...
View ArticleApapa, Amuwo, others to experience power outage.
Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has announced that some areas under its operational territory would start experiencing power outage from Wednesday this week. The company, in a statement by...
View ArticleCampaign to rebrand insurance sector kicks off June 1, 2018
L-R Deputy DIrector,Corporate Affairs, National Insurance Commission, (NAICOM), Rasaaq Salami; Vice Chairman Communication/ Publicity Sub Committee of the Insurers Committee and Managing Director, NSIA...
View ArticleFormer Taraba Gov. Jolly Nyame jailed 14 years for fraud
Former Taraba State Governor, Jolly Nyame has been sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment with no option of fine over N1.64 billion fraud. An FCT High Court on Wednesday convicted and sentenced Nyame who...
View ArticleFayemi Resigns As Minister of Solid Minerals
The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has announced his resignation from President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet. He made the announcement on Wednesday at a valedictory briefing in...
View ArticleSTI PLC DOLES OUT SCHOOL BAGS & STATIONERY TO PRIMARY SCHOOL IN LAGOS
The Head of Corporate Communications and Brand Management of Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc, Segun Bankole poses with one of the Nursery Section recipients of school bags and exercise books in the...
View ArticleFMDQ Clear and Frontclear partner to deliver first-class clearing structure...
FMDQ Clear Limited and Frontclear has signed an agreement to jointly enhance Nigeria’s first central clearing house structure, with the support of a settlement guarantee fund. The collaboration is the...
View ArticleNigeria doesn’t have oil-powered economy but extractive industry-Says Experts
Centre for Financial Journalism/Facility for Oil Sector Transformation Roundtable Dialogue on PIGB held on 30th May, 2018, in Lagos. Communiqué 1. Roundtable participants reviewed the current status of...
View ArticleBuhari signs Not Too Young To Run bill into law
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday signed into law, the `Not Too Young To Run Bill’. While signing the bill, the president, on a lighter mood, ‘appealed’ to young people to defer their...
View ArticleStakeholders urge Buhari to sign Petroleum Industry Governance Bill
Stakeholders in the oil and gas industry have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sign into law the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) passed by the National Assembly. The stakeholders...
View ArticleN800m Diezani Bribe: Ex-Kaduna Gov, Yero, three others remanded in prison
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday arraigned a former Governor of Kaduna State, Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, alongside former Minister of State, Nuhu Somo Way; former Kaduna State...
View ArticleShell adds competitive, deep-water production in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico
Shell Offshore, Inc. (Shell), a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, announces today the early start of production – around one-year ahead of schedule – at the first phase of Kaikias, an economically...
View ArticleAfDB signs $3m Line of Credit deal with Sierra Leone’s UTB to support...
At its 2018 Annual Meetings in Busan, Korea, the African Development Bank signed a 5-year, US $3-million Line of Credit (LoC) with Sierra Leone’s Union Trust Bank (UTB), the only indigenous private...
View ArticlePhoto News: Ground Breaking Ceremony Of Nigerian Insurers Association( NIA)...
L-R: Past Chairman of Nigeria Insurers Association (NIA), Mr Dolapo Balogun; Chairman Governing Council, NIA, Mr Eddie Efekoha; Deputy Commissioner, Technical, National Insurance Commission, Mr...
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