The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has expressed its support for South Africa's Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to be Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission. The six foreign ministers of SADC unanimously ...
A combined team of Military and State Security Service (SSS) officials in Katsina state have raided a suspected hideout of members of Boko Haram in Katsina metropolis. The newsmen gathered that the officials stormed the area along Dutsinma road near th...
Former Lagos State governor Bola Tinubu has debunked report by an online medium, Niger Observer, about his health status, saying that he was hale and hearty. Tinubu, who stated this in a statement by his special adviser on media, Mr. Sunday Dare,...
Human Rights Lawyer, Femi Falana, yesterday faulted the donation of a whopping N100m to victims of Boko Haram attack in Kano recently by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Malam Sanusi Lamido. His reaction on the issue contained in a statement...
Ashaka Cement Plc, a subsidiary of Lafarge Cement WAPCO Nigeria plc says it is adding 300,000 metric tonnes to its current 1,000,000 production capacity. This would bring its total annual production capacity to 1.3 million metric tonnes. The comp...
The Minister of Power, Prof. Bart Nnaji, has refuted reports that General Electric (GE) has agreed to construct a 10,000MW power plant in Nigeria. Making the clarification in a statement yesterday, Nnaji said GE “has neither constructed nor agree...
The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mr. Mohammed Musa Sada, has said Nigeria has a proven reserve of 620,000 0unces of gold in Ogun State. He also stated that coal resources existed in 13 States of the country with the current exploration resu...
The Register General and Chief Executive Officer of the Corporate Affair Commission (CAC), Barrister Bello Mahmud, has intensified efforts at educating people to register their businesses. Mahmud made this disclosure in an interview with an online econ...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has established an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) Fraud Prevention Committee to address risks associated with the use of alternative e-payment channels. The members of the committee include banks, the ...
Umuchinemere Pro-credit Micro Finance Bank (UPMFB), owned by the Catholic Diocese of Enugu has disclosed that it gave out N263,680,000 micro credit fund to a total of 3,860 poor people in the diocese in 2011. It said the gesture was in line...
Guaranty Trust Bank Limited has acquired the licence to issue MasterCard debit cards in its Ghana subsidiary, GTBank (Ghana) Ltd. With this launch, the bank has rolled o...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange at the weekend announced the revocation of Licences of 10 dealing member firms just as it declared 48 and 27 others inactive and unactivated respectively as at February 10, 2012. This was contained in a Circular number BDR/C...
Unlike some of the markets in other climes, since the beginning of the economic meltdown in the mid 2008, the Nigerian capital market is yet to regain its confidence due to the loss suffered by the investors and the inability of the market regulators t...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange continued on a negative trajectory at the close of the trading weekend as most blue chip companies joined the league losers resulting in the NSE All-Share Index depreciating by 254.01 points or 1.2 per cent ...
First City Monument Bank said on Friday it has completed the acquisition of rescued lender Finbank, which it said would double its branch network and customer base. FCMB shares were up almost four per cent on Friday at N4.10 per share. The mid-size len...