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  United Bank for Africa has called on Nigerian entrepreneurs to embrace sustainable business practices as a means to ensure long-term growth and survival in the country’s challenging economic environment. Speaking at the UBA’s last quarterly business series for the ...

  The Dangote Petroleum Refinery says the Federal Government has not met its target to supply crude oil to the refinery under the naira-for-crude initiative. It said the amount of crude received from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited is ...

  WEMA BANK COMMEMORATES INTERNATIONAL FRAUD AWARENESS WEEK 2024 Reinforcing its commitment to combatting fraud and protecting customers’ financial interests, Wema Bank, Nigeria’s most innovative bank and pioneer of Africa’s first fully digital bank, ALAT, commemorated International Fraud Awareness Week ...

  The Ogun State Police Command has confirmed the de.ath of one Sunday Abidoye aged 51, whose lifeless body was discover in a room at Creestar Hotel , GRA, Sagamu on Wednesday, The command’s spokesperson, SP Omolola Odutola, disclosed this in ...

  The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has raided a warehouse in Oke-Afa, Okota, Lagos, filled with unregistered and expired supermarket items This was revealed in a statement shared on X.com (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday. According ...

  An Italian village is offering villas for $1 to Americans who were sent into a tailspin and looking to flee the country after Donald Trump’s decisive 2024 presidential election win The village of Ollolai, located in central Sardinia, is offering real ...

  Fidelity Bank has announced the launch of the sixth edition of its flagship savings campaign, the Get Alert in Millions promo, aimed at empowering Nigerians with over N159m in cash prizes. Speaking at a press conference in Lagos on ...

  The founder/Chief Executive Officer of Moniepoint Inc., Tosin Eniolorunda, has said that it is more profitable to provide financial services to women than men. Eniolorunda said this in a statement shared with The PUNCH on Tuesday while highlighting the need to ...

  United Bank for Africa is set to empower Micro, Small, and Medium-scale Enterprises with wealth management skills in the last edition of its quarterly business series for the year. The pan-African bank said this edition of the business series, ...

  •Consular officers deployed to embassies in Spain, Malaysia, Brazil, others, concerns raised over state of country’s missions abroad The Federal Government has begun deploying consular officers to diplomatic missions worldwide before the anticipated release of the ambassadorial list. This ...

  Port Harcourt-based, Anambra-born architect, Engr. Asomba Andrew Egbuonu, has been k!lled by gunmen in Nnewi, four days before the burial of his late mother. Egbuonu was a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Architects (FNIA). The General Secretary of ...

  The Kano State Police Command has arrested a 31-year-old man, Salisu Bala, on allegations of impersonating a police officer to extort and terrorise residents in the state. Bala was apprehended by members of the Police Special Constabulary at Koki ...

  A bill seeking to amend the Constitution and the 2022 Electoral Act to allow Nigerians in the diaspora to vote has passed its second reading in the House of Representatives. According to Channels TV, the proposed legislation, co-sponsored by ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has awarded Certificates of Return to Ondo State’s Governor-elect, Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, and his deputy, Dr. Olayide Adelami. The ceremony, held at INEC’s headquarters on Tuesday, was attended by notable figures, including the ...

  Days after the Court of Appeal in Abuja nullified his presidency, Musiliu ‘MC Oluomo’ Akinsanya assumed office as the National President of the National Union of Road Transport Workers on Tuesday. This marks the first time MC Oluomo has ...

  The Senate has removed the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Umar, over alleged gross misconduct. This decision was made pursuant to Section 157(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999, as amended), which empowers ...

  The Ogun State Community, Social Orientation and Safety Corps, otherwise known as So-Safe Corps, has arrested 18-year-old Abdullahi Idowu, an ex-convict and Samson Ojo, aged 17, for theft of a generator’s engine parts at the Idiroko border area in ...

  A church in Switzerland is now using an AI hologram of Jesus to take confessions from Catholic worshippers, as seen in a wild viral video. “I was surprised, it was so easy, and though it’s a machine, it gave me ...

  President Bola Tinubu has dissolved the Governing Council of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, and removed its newly appointed Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Bernard Odoh, and Registrar, Mrs. Rosemary Nwokike. He also approved the removal of Ohieku Salami as Pro-Chancellor ...

  The Federal Government has revoked all restrictions on the posting of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members, paving the way for corps members to be deployed to private sector organisations such as banks and oil and gas companies. The ...

  Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan is 67 today, November, 20, 2024 To celebrate one of Nigeria’s best president (not my words, but words of Nigerians today on X), Bayelsa Governor, Douye Diri, ex-senate president, Bukola Saraki, SilverBird Group CEO, Ben Bruce ...

  Globacom CEO, Mike Adenuga is alive This was confirmed by veteran journalists, Otunba Dele Momodu and Nifemi Oguntoye. Momodu in an X post last night, said he had a phone conversation with the reclusive billionaire. He said Adenuga confirmed ...

  US President-Elect, Donald Trump has confirmed that he intends to declare a national emergency over border security and deploy the U.S. military to implement a large-scale deportation of undocumented immigrants. Immigration was a central issue in Trump’s campaign, during which ...

  A woman mauled by dog in Boston on Monday that also hurt her husband and two police officers has d!ed from her injuries, investigators announced Tuesday. Officers responding to a report of people bitten by a dog in the ...

  The lawmaker representing Borno South, Ali Ndume, has appealed to the Senate to allow the widow of the late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah to replace him as the representative of Anambra South Senatorial District. Ndume made this appeal during the ...