British banking and financial service group, Standard Chartered Plc, is reported to have concluded plans to close down at least half of its Nigerian branches, in a major move, as it navigates towards digital banking. This is coming at a…
Private sector credit rose to a record high of N35.31 trillion as of November 2021, representing N5.16 trillion net new loans between January and November 2021. This is according to data from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) money and…
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), under the aegis of Coalition of Civil Society Organisations and other critical stakeholders have insisted on the removal of petroleum subsidy. The group made this known in a communique issued at the end of a one-day…
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), says it has plans to unveil a revised version of the 10-year Capital Market Masterplan that will take into account market dynamism and innovations in FinTech among others. This was disclosed by Director-General of…
The total value of capital importation into Nigeria stood at 1.73 billion dollars in the third quarter of 2021, from 875.62 billion dollars in the preceding quarter of 2021, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says. The bureau said this…
Liverpool forward, Sadio Mane, has backed Senegal to reach the final of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON. He also predicted that Senegal would beat the team they will face in the final 1-0. Mane said this in a…
The Adamawa State Command of the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it prosecuted 69 drug offenders in 2021. The state commander of the agency, Mosoti Mathias, who disclosed this Monday in Yola, said 82 cases are pending in…
A fire outbreak has destroyed one of the mega schools rehabilitated by Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State in Maiduguri. The mega school was recently commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari during his visit to Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, about…
Abimbola Abatta The pre-engagement training exercise for the first batch of the newly recruited 1000 teachers in Osun State has been slated to begin today, January 10, 2022 at Ataoja School of Science in Osogbo, the state capital. The announcement…
Former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has dismissed speculations of him defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Kwankwaso said he had no plan to dump the PDP for the APC, stressing that…
