Halogen Group, a leading security risk management and safety solution organisation, says it has been voted as Nigeria’s Most Outstanding Security Company for 2024. The company, in a statement, said the announcement came from the United Kingdom head office ...
Read More »9mobile appoints Banigbe chief executive officer
Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services Limited (EMTS), operating as 9mobile, has announced the appointment of Obafemi Banigbe as its Chief Executive Officer. This strategic move is part of the company’s broader plan to embark on a new phase of business ...
Read More »MTN pays over N549bn in taxes, levies to FG – Report
MTN Nigeria Communications Plc has announced that it contributed N549.3bn in taxes and levies to the Nigerian government. This was disclosed in the company’s 2023 Sustainability Report filed with the Nigeria Exchange Limited. According to the report, MTN Nigeria ...
Read More »CAC extends deadline for PoS registration
The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has extended the deadline for registration of all Point of Sale (PoS) Operators by additional sixty days to accommodate others who were not able to register due to technical glitches. The commission had earlier given a ...
Read More »Depots raise petrol price to N720/litre
Fuel scarcity is gradually surfacing in Lagos and other parts of the country as private depot owners hiked the ex-depot price of petrol from N630 to N720 per litre. This came as fuel scarcity deepened in Abuja and the ...
Read More »NCAA suspends 10 private jet operators
The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has suspended 10 private jet operators over their failure to commence recertification process. The Authority justified its action by citing the Nigeria Civil Aviation Regulations 2023 Part 18.3.4 which forbids holders of Permit for ...
Read More »Actress Sarah Martins in tears over N300K electricity bill
Actress Sarah Martins has cried out after reportedly spending N300,000 on electricity bills in just under a month in Lagos. Taking to her social media platform, the actress expressed her dismay at the exorbitant costs of electricity. She disclosed that ...
Read More »NLC kicks against latest electricity tariff hike
The Nigeria Labour Congress has described as insensitive the latest electricity hike by DisCOS in tariff payable by Band A customers. The electricity distribution companies (DisCOS) had on Wednesday announced that the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission approved the hike. They increased it ...
Read More »Fidelity Bank plans N26.7bn capital raise
Fidelity Bank has announced plans to increase its issued share capital from N22.6bn to N26.7bn. The bank will achieve this by creating up to 8.2bn additional ordinary shares, each valued at 50 Kobo. This was disclosed in a corporate notice ...
Read More »PalmPay mandates CAC registration for POS operators
PalmPay has announced that all Point Of Sale operators using its platform must register with the Corporate Affairs Commission or submit their CAC certificates by July 7, 2024, to avoid account freezing. In a statement made available to The ...
Read More »Union Bank promotes 337 employees
Union Bank of Nigeria has promoted 337 employees across its various departments. The bank said that the promotion underscored its commitment to recognising and rewarding the hard work, dedication and outstanding contributions of its employees. A statement from the bank ...
Read More »CBN’s recapitalisation programme will strengthen banking industry – Wema CEO, Oseni
The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Wema Bank Plc, Moruf Oseni, speaks with TEMITOPE AINA on the lender’s journey as it turned 79 years recently. While delving into the journey of the past decade when the bank metamorphosed from a ...
Read More »Coronation Insurance records N4.45bn profit
Coronation Insurance Plc has reported a profit after tax of N4.45bn for the first quarter of 2024, this represents a rebound from the N1.10bn loss in the first quarter of 2023. This was disclosed in its financial results filed ...
Read More »Nigeria’s economy can experience turnaround in few months — Dangote
The Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has promised that the private sector will “invest heavily” in job-creating initiatives. He added that Nigeria’s economy can be turned around “within a few months” as the “issues are not that bad.” ...
Read More »FirstBank to partner Lagos on infrastructure
The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of FirstBank, Olusegun Alebiosu, has expressed a willingness to partner with the Lagos State government in the area of infrastructure development. Alebiosu said this when a led the management team to pay a courtesy ...
Read More »NOVA Bank commences operations as national commercial bank
NOVA Bank has officially commenced operations as a National Commercial Bank, as the bank opened its first commercial banking branch in the Victoria Island area of Lagos. The bank, formerly known as NOVA Merchant Bank, had received the Central ...
Read More »Stanbic, Citibank, Rand lead $1bn capital importation
Stanbic IBTC Bank, Citibank Nigeria and Rand Merchant Bank led the pack in the facilitation of US$1.09bn capital importation into Nigeria in the fourth quarter of 2023. According to the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics capital importation report for Q4 ...
Read More »Wema Bank seeks digital empowerment for MSMEs
Wema Bank, the pioneer of Africa’s first fully digital bank, ALAT, has charged stakeholders to prioritise digital empowerment for MSMEs as a measure for championing a sustainable MSME ecosystem in Nigeria. The charge was made at the International MSMEs ...
Read More »FCMB to expand SME funding with $25m
First City Monument Bank has embarked on an initiative aimed at expanding its support for small and medium-sized enterprises across Nigeria, following the signing of a $25m agreement with the Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank and the European Commission. This ...
Read More »Aggrieved youths shut down SEEPCO OPL oil field
Some aggrieved youths of the Ijaw Youths Council, IYC, and Onuebum community, in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, on Tuesday barricaded the site of an oil well project in OPL 2005 located in the community. According to ...
Read More »CBN to sanction banks rejecting old dollar notes
The Central Bank of Nigeria has warned against the continued rejection of old series and lower denominations of the United States of American dollars by its regulated entities in Nigeria. The bank threatened to sanction lenders that rejected the currencies. ...
Read More »‘Nigerians spent N16tn on fuel and generators in 2023’
In 2023 alone Nigerians spent a total of N16.5 trillion to buy diesel, petrol and generators to get electricity, the Federal Government announced on Tuesday It also announced that the formal power sector, including electricity generation, transmission, and distribution companies, ...
Read More »FIRSTBANK POWERS NIGERIA’S DIGITAL LENDING CHARGE WITH FIRSTCREDIT
In the fast-evolving world of digital banking, Nigeria stands on the brink of a financial revolution. As the global pandemic has accelerated digitalization, the need for accessible, efficient, and reliable financial services has never been more crucial. FirstCredit by ...
Read More »Again, Tapswap postpones token allocation
A popular tap-2-earn app, Tapswap, powered by TON Blockchain, has said the token allocation to users has been postponed to quarter three of the year. The app, which required users to repeatedly tap the icon in the centre of the Telegram ...
Read More »Access Bank employees donate boreholes to communities
Employees of Access Bank under the Retail Operations Group have donated boreholes to communities across Nigeria. This was disclosed at the inauguration of a borehole and water treatment facility donated to the Ogolonto Community in the Ikorodu area of ...
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