Nigeria spends about $22bn a year on importation of food into the country, the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri has revealed. Read also: (There may be no food next year – Gov. Ortom) Lokpobiri hinted this on Saturday at a town hall meeting in …
Read More »Zenith Bank launches *966# free airtime promo
Peter Amangbo, Zenith Bank GMD Nigeria’s foremost Financial Institution, Zenith Bank Plc., has launched the *966# Friday campaign to reward its USSD banking customers by giving them a chance to triple their airtime purchased every Friday on the platform. The campaign, which will run every Friday from September 9 through …
Read More »FG Approves Loans From World Bank, China, Japan At 1.25 Percent Interest
The Federal Government has approved plans for long-term loans from the World Bank, China and Japan with interest rates of 1.25 per cent and maturity of 20 years. According to reports, the loans would be received from institutions such as the World Bank, African Development Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency, …
Read More »Digital Nigeria will help drive inclusive growth – Airtel CEO
L-R, Economist and Policy analyst, Dr. Ogho Okiti; MD/CEO, Airtel Nigeria, Segun Ogunsanya and Africa and Middle East Senior Economist, Bloomberg Intelligence, Mark Bohlund at the 2nd Nigeria Stock Exchange and BLOOMBERG CEO’s Round table in Lagos. Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Airtel Nigeria, Segun Ogunsanya, has called …
Read More »Access Bank wins again, emerges CIBN’s Best Bank Academy Award
Access Bank School of Banking Excellence has won the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) Award for the Best Bank Academy in the year 2016. The award was in recognition of the quality of the curriculum of the school and quality of the graduates as well as the consistency …
Read More »Diaspora Nigerian physicians should come home to make country medical tourism hub in Africa -Okoro
Dr. Stanley A. Okoro is a doubled Board certified plastic surgeon based in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States of America, USA, and a medical doctor of international repute. A native of Orlu, Imo State, he was adjudged the best cosmetic plastic surgeon in the State of Georgia in 2014, beating …
Read More »Dangote Group refutes report on importation of GMO rice
Dangote Group has refuted widely circulated broadcast that the company was allegedly partnering with the Federal Government to import and flood the market with poisonous Genetic Modified Organisms, GMOs’ rice. The group in statement made available to us Thursday tagged as malicious the broadcast alleging the so called partnership, stating …
Read More »UBA, First Bank, Access Bank, Dangote shine as Stock Exchange trade N1.89bn shares
Investors on the Nigerian Stock Exchange on Tuesday traded a total of 176.77 million shares valued at N1.89 billion exchanged in 3,682 deals, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. NAN also reported that this was against the 195.02 million shares worth N1.57 billion traded in 3,221 deals on Monday. The …
Read More »Edo Guber: Fayose urges support for Ize Iyamu, Says “Edo People must defend their votes”
Gov. Fayose Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has urged the people of Edo State to give their votes to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu on Saturday, saying; “Edo people should not make the same mistake Nigerians made last year by enthroning the All Progressives Congress (APC) government of President …
Read More »BVN: All you need to know, how to retrieve it and link it to your GTBank account
To curb or reduce and illegal banking transaction in Nigerian banking system, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in 2015 directed all account holders home and abroad to enroll for a bank verification number also known as BVN. BVN is an 11 digit identification number that gives every Nigerian with a …
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