P-square, Wizkid, Iceprince & Basketmouth storm London Afrobeats Festival
Nigerian stars will on Saturday August 28, 2011 storm the HMVApollo for the 2011 Afrobeats Festival.
Floods Sack Lagos Again
Barely one week after the torrential rainfall that that left no fewer than 15 people dead in different parts of Lagos State and that destroyed property worth millions of Naira, another downpour in the city on Sunday wreaked havoc, leaving most of the r...
7-Year-Old Battles Kidney Failure, Seeks Support
A seven –year-old child, Irene Edwards, requires the support of well-meaning Nigerians to put her life together again, being faced with a challenging health condition - kidney disease. WINIFRED OGBEBO reports. Seven-year-old Irene Edwards is figh...
Vehicle Encoding Records 29% Success In 18 Months
Director, FCT Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS), Major Adamu Argungu (rtd) has lamented that despite the huge sums of money invested in the robot system of traffic law enforcement, the project had not yielded the anticipated results, as only ...
Polio: One Case Recorded In 2010
Executive director, FCT Primary Health Care Board, Dr. Rilwanu Mohammed, has disclosed that only one case of polio was recorded in the FCT in 2010 and that no case has been reported this year, a clear indication that the FCT was winning the war against...
84,758 Entrepreneurs Benefit From CBN’s Initiative
No fewer than 84,758 entrepreneurs have benefited from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through the Entrepreneurship Development Centres (EDCs) over the last four years, the CBN governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has said. The beneficiaries compri...
AEPB Casual Staff Allege Marginalisation
Casual staff engaged by the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) have decried that they are being excluded and marginalised by the management of the board.This was disclosed by some of the affected members of staff, who preferred anonymity, at t...
‘Fibre Optic Cable Will Enhance Telecom Services’
Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP-17) in Durban, South Africa, participants at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Symposium on ICTs and Climate Change in Ghana have renewed calls for global leaders to recognise the power of in...
NUBAN: Union Registrar Begins Revalidation Of E-dividend Mandates
Ahead of full compliance by Nigeria banks with the newly adopted Nigerian Uniform Bank Account Numbering (NUBAN), Union Registrar Limited has commenced revalidation of e-dividend mandates of shareholders in various company registers. The Managing Direc...
Edo Govt Enacts Consumption Tax Law
Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has assented to the Hotels and Events Centres Occupancy and Restaurants Consumption Tax Law recently passed by the House of Assembly. The Law envisages the imposition of a consumption tax on any person who p...
Union Bank Set To Key Into IFRS
Union Bank has put in place a strategic plan that would enable it key into the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) ahead of the 2012 deadline set by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The bank organised a one week workshop on the basics ...
19 Coys Yet To Submit Financial Report – NAICOM
The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has disclosed that 19 insurers, including Industrial and General Insurance Plc, Great Nigeria Insurance and Nigerian Reinsurance Corporation were yet to submit their financials for the year ended December 31, ...
Shareholders To Boycott NBC’s Products If Delisted
With the planned delisting of Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC), makers of Coca-Cola, Fanta and Sprite from the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), shareholders in the market have said that they would rally Nigerians to boycott the company’s products. T...
Suleja Church Holds Memorial Service For Bomb Victims
Security was massive and tight on Sunday in Suleja as the All Christians Fellowship Mission held a memorial service for its three members who died in a bomb explosion. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the divisional police officer in charg...
Group Urges Jonathan To Sign Income Tax Law
President Goodluck Jonathan has been urged to as a matter of national interest and priority sign into law the Amended Personal Income Tax Bill. The call is contained in a communiqué issued in Kaduna at the end of the North-West zone meeting of the Pay...