Chevron declares $1.08 quarterly dividend, as Michael Wirth becomes Vice...
The Board of Directors of Chevron Corporation has announced a quarterly dividend of one dollar and eight cents ($1.08) per share, payable March 10, 2017 , to all holders of common stock as shown on...
View ArticleNo to Premium Times’ new found love for ficition as Journalism
The attention of the Office of the Hon. Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN has been drawn to another sensational offering from the platform of the Premium Times. Without...
View ArticleMINISTER DEBUNKS REPORT ON GOVERNORS’ EMISSARY TO LONDON, SAYS PRESIDENT IS OK
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has refuted a media report alleging that Nigerian Governors are planning to send a delegation to confirm the health status of President...
View ArticleFidelity Bank Appoints Charles Aigbe as Divisional Head, Brand and...
Fidelity Bank Plc, one of Nigeria’s leading banks has announced the appointment of Charles Aigbe as Divisional Head, Brand and Communications. Following Fidelity Bank’s recent rebranding and...
View Article2017 Bidget Scale second reading at Senate
Nigeria’s 2017 budget framework of N7.298 trillion has passed second reading in the Senate and transferred to the Committees on Appropriations and its sub-Committees for further engagement with various...
View ArticleYinka Sanni Name As Stanbic IBTC CEO
The board of directors of Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc on Thursday announced the appointment of Mr. Yinka Sanni as new Chief Executive. According lhe lender’s in a notice to the Nigerian Stock Exchange...
View ArticleWe will do all we can to support local producers & manufacturers-Osinbajo
In a bif to ensure that Federal Government’s business oriented regulatory agencies become facilitators for Micro, Small, & Medium Scale Enterprises, MSMES, the Buhari presidency would do all within...
View ArticleWe Don’t Fund Religious Programmes, Activities- BoI
Mr. Waheed Olagunju,MD BoI *Reaffirms Support For Bankable Ventures The Bank of Industry (BoI) on Friday reaffirmed its comittement to support only bankable ventures that aid industrial...
View ArticleNigeria Customs Eyes N900b revenue in 2017
The Nigeria Customs Service has said its targeting a revenue generation of about N900 billion in 2017 as against N898 billion it generated for the Federal Government in 2016. Comptroller-General of...
View ArticleNigeria court orders temporary transfer of Shell, Eni oilfield
A Nigerian court has ordered the temporary forfeiture of assets and the transfer of operations of a long-disputed oilfield owned by Shell and Eni, among others, to the federal government, court papers...
View ArticleGhana’s export earnings for 2016 improves marginally to $11 billion
Ghana’s export earnings for 2016 improves marginally to $11 billion Ghana’s earnings from the exports of gold, cocoa and crude oil for 2016 went up marginally, compared to what it got in 2015. It...
View ArticleInsurance market to hit US$600m in 2018 – OBG report
The value of the country’s insurance market will reach US$600 million in 2018, from US$400million in 2014, based on a projected annual growth rate of 8.5percent, the 2017 edition of the Oxford Business...
View ArticleMTN contributes US$1m to boost knowledge of Africa’s history
MTN Group has confirmed its support of a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization-led drive to rewrite Africa’s history from an African perspective, through the General History...
View ArticleSuspected Criminal Gang Attacks Court In Imo, Sets Accused ‘Vampire’ Free
A suspect standing trial for crimes that include kidnapping, Henry Chibueze, also known as Vampire has escaped from Imo High Court premises following a shootout between gunmen and security operatives....
View ArticleAirtel to exit Nigeria, Ghana, others this year
Bharti Airtel, the mother company of Airtel Ghana, has announced that it will be exiting 14 African countries including Ghana within a year. The affected countries include Ghana, Nigeria, Congo, Chad,...
View ArticleThe killer midget and stunted dwarf (2), by Femi Fani-Kayode
Meanwhile one wonders precisely who I planned and discussed these “violent attacks” with? Was it Rev. Musa Asake, the gentle and amiable Secretary General of the Christian Association of Nigeria, who I...
View ArticleInvestor receives recovered N1.5m for Illegal sale of shares
The investor protection initiatives of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) received a boost last weekend when an investor, Rev. Fr. Samuel Ukeje Ikechukwu received a cheque for the sum of...
View ArticleCBN clarifies alleged wrong FOREX purchase figures
Following media reports alleging irregularities in the rates at which foreign exchange was obtained by some individuals and companies from different Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) under the new [60:40]...
View ArticleN1.9bn Subsidy Fraud: Impunity must stop- TUC
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria commends the judiciary and Nigerians over the recent rulings by Justice Lateefa Okunnu at the Ikeja High Court, that sentenced the Managing Director of Ontario Oil...
View ArticleInsurers push for education to scale up microinsurance
Russell Haresign, Country Manager, BIMA Deepening education, enforcing collaboration and providing a strict legal framework will spur Ghana on to increase subscriptions for microinsurance, industry...
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