BANKING
GTBank holds Football Development Camp for Students, Coaches
Foremost African financial institution, Guaranty Trust Bank plc, is set to sponsor 40 outstanding young talents discovered at its football tournaments as well as 60 […]
TOP STORIES
NEWS
Arabic teacher defiles 3 sisters
A 23-year-old Arabic teacher, Ibrahim Idris, was on Tuesday arraigned at an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defiling three teenage girls. The girls […]
NEWS
BBC commence Pidgin English program for West Africa
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on Monday launched the first of six African language services announced in November 2016 expansion plans. Nigerian pidgin, loosely […]
NEWS
Make use of pedestrian bridges, FRSC advice Nigerians
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) in Anambra on Tuesday called on the people of the state to make use of the pedestrian bridges on […]
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
BUSINESS
Nigeria spent N1.3trn on capital projects in 2016 – Osinbajo
Lagos—Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo said yesterday that the Buhari administration spent N1.3 trillion on capital projects in 2016, the highest in the history of the country. […]
BUSINESS
CBN pumps additional $195m into FOREX market
In the wholesale segment of the inter-bank Foreign Exchange market, it auctioned $100m and also intervened in the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and invisible […]
BUSINESS
Chinese biggest SUV maker to acquire jeep
China’s Great Wall Motor is sizing up Fiat Chrysler, the Italian-American carmaker that also owns Jeep. A Great Wall official told Reuters it had “an […]
BANKING NEWS
BANKING
GTBank holds Football Development Camp for Students, Coaches
Foremost African financial institution, Guaranty Trust Bank plc, is set to sponsor 40 outstanding young talents discovered at its football tournaments as well as 60 […]
BANKING
Digital banking solution, response to customer behaviour – Skye Bank
Skye Bank Plc says its newly launched Omni-channel banking solution, Skyexperience, is a response to shifts in customer behaviour and preferences. In a statement on […]
BANKING
BoI, Oxfam disburse N200 million to 4,000 rural farmers
Spurred by the success of its Village Savings and Loans Associations (VS&LAs) for farmers in Benue, Nasarawa, and Plateau states, Oxfam GB is partnering the […]
INSURANCE
INSURANCE
AXA Mansard resumes annuity business
A global leader in insurance and asset management, AXA Mansard Insurance Plc, has resumed the sale of annuities business nationwide in line with the joint […]
INSURANCE
PenCom disagrees with bill on paramilitary pension scheme
The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has kicked against the bill seeking to exclude paramilitary organisations including the police from the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS). The […]
INSURANCE
Financial inclusion will drive Insurance sector potential
The nation’s insurance sector has revealed plans to create more knowledge of insurance, and further deepen its penetration with the view to increasing its contribution […]
COLUMNISTS
OPINION
An entrepreneur? 4 signs u are making progress
one of the most difficult challenges of starting, growing and then maintaining a business is that as a founder or CEO you spend so much […]
OPINION
Sierra Leone Mudslide: Lessons for Nigeria
A mudslide which devastated Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown this week, killing about 400 people and leaving more than 3,000 homeless, has raised questions about deforestation, […]
OPINION
Biafra and Corruption: When a Judas Becomes a Muhammad by SKC Ogbonnia
The Nigerian corrupt cabal is exploiting the current Biafran agitation with increasing stridency. The venerable Merriam-Webster, mark you, defines corruption as a “dishonest or illegal […]
