Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa said his administration inherited about N100 billion unpaid pensions under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS). Okowa disclosed this at the third session of the 8th Synod of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Ughelli Diocese.…
Cadbury Nigeria Plc has reported 62 per cent drop in profit before tax in its unaudited first quarter results for period ended March 31, 2021 to N345.1million as against N912.77million reported in first quarter for period ended March 31, 2020.…
Analysts on Monday called on the Federal Government to reduce the high cost of governance, to enable it pay up its growing debts when interest rates were due. They made the call in in Lagos, on the backdrop of Nigeria’s…
The presidency says 319,755 Nigerians have benefitted from the Economic Sustainability Plan’s Survival Fund Payroll Support (ESP). Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, Laolu Akande disclosed this in a statement in…
The wobbling state of power is one of the pulling strings constituting debilitating forces compounding with several other disturbances to give weakening definitions to the profile of the Nigerian economy. The definitions of the state of the sector have been…
Ecobank Group’s Profit jumped by 23.5 per cent in the first quarter (Q1) of 2021 to hit N30.493 billion year on year from N24. 694 billion it posted in March 2020. Ecobank in its Condensed Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements for…
The Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) limited on Monday resumed the week positive as the All-Share Index advanced by 0.04 per cent amid sustained positive investors’ sentiment. In summary, the NGX All-Share Index (ASI) grew by 16.70 basis points, representing an…
African Cloud and Digital solutions provider, inq.Digital Nigeria has joined the global call for the increased involvement of the girl-child in Information and Communications Technology (ICT). The technology firm made the call during this year’s International Girls in ICT Day,…
…begins construction of 600 units of 2-bedroom flats for beneficiaries By Deborah Christopher, Abuja The federal government on Monday said it has begun arrangements aimed at resettling persons displaced from their ancestral homes in Borno, Kano, Katsina and Edo states.…
Abimbola Abatta Osogbo Leader of a Yoruba socio-cultural group, Kiriji Heritage Defenders, Dr Ademola Ekundayo was on Monday interrogated by the Department of State Service, DSS, over planned protests by secessionists in Osun State. It was gathered that the DSS…
