In the past few months, unease has enveloped the Nigerian telecommunications sector especially the service providers with the avalanche of notices from various local and state governments and their agencies seeking to collect levies and taxes from the ...
Diamond Bank Plc has recorded N11.254 billion loss in its Audited Report for the Period Ended December 31, 2011.The bank’s financial position was contained in a filing made to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) last Friday for verification. By thi...
Guinness Nigeria, has revealed that its ongoing drive to expand its operations, has seen it invest $225 million (N55.billion), into its Ogba and Benin breweries in the country. Adebayo Alli, capacity expansion project lead, Guinness Nigeria...
Mr. Bode Adediji, the Group Executive Chairman of Bode Adediji Partnership, Kontinental Developers Nigeria Limited and House of Estate Limited and President of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers spoke with FLORENCE&nbs...
Bukky Ayoade, the Relationships Manger at the Netherlands Business school, Abuja in this interview speaks to Blessing Ukemena about how attending a business school is best for anyone who wants to be one step ahead in this competitive age. How do you de...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) says it has arrested over 150 operators of illegal oil bunkers in some parts of the country. The Commandant-General of the corps, Dr Ade Abolurin, said this in Abuja on Saturday, while addressing 50 ...
The Sokoto State government says over 811,385 children will be immunised during the four-day National Immunisation Plus Days ( NIPDs) against polio which commenced on Saturday. Alhaji Garba Kadi, the Director, Sokoto State Primary ...
Alhaji Saidu Dakin-Gari, a former Kebbi Governor and PDP candidate in the re-run governorship election on Saturday, voted at 12 40 p.m. and expressed confidence of winning. ``I am confident of victory, but the Almighty Allah has...
Some voters, who turned up to vote in Saturday’s Kebbi re-run governorship election without their voters’ cards were accredited to vote in some parts of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that in Birnin Kebbi, Z...
The Chairman, Sickle Cell Foundation, Nigeria, Prof Olu Akinyanju, has expressed regrets over the lack of capacity building and research in the Nigerian healthcare system. He spoke in Lagos on Saturday at the 14th Closing/Certificate Award Ceremo...
Residents of Joshua Okeowo and Bepo Communities in Ikotun/Igando suburb of Lagos State have raised the alarm over the continued presence of a ``mystery crocodile'' in the area. Some of the residents told the News Agency of Nigeria (...
The defection of top members of the opposition to PDP will not strangulate the opposition in Kebbi, an opposition politician said. The Chairman of Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) in Kebbi Alhaji Boyi Za...
The Acting Governor of Kebbi, Alhaji Aminu Jega, has described the governorship re-run election in the state on Saturday as a ``huge success’. ``In spite of the low turnout in the morning, the exercise has turned out a huge success in ...
Forty-two persons were convicted in Asaba on Saturday for violating the regulation on the monthly environmental sanitation. Mr Sylvester Ehikwe, the Chief Magistrate of the mobile sanitation court, sentenced some of the accused persons to prison terms,...
ECOWAS Heads of State and Government have directed member states sharing boundary with Mali to close their borders and seaports if the Malian coup leaders refused to restore constitutional order in the country. The directive was contained in a communiq...