Lagos, Nigeria – Monday, August 17, 2020: Leading consumer and SME finance company, Zedvance Finance Limited has revealed plans to empower small and medium-sized businesses with interest-free credit to catalyze their growth against the backdrop of the global economic downturn occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic. Driven by a need to create a support …

The ongoing Dangote Cement Bag of Goodies Promo season 2 has produced 60 millionaires spread across the nation, thereby cushioning the effects and impact of COVID-19 on businesses and families according to the company’s Director of Marketing, Mrs. Funmi Sanni. She said that more winners are expected to emerge in …

  The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) joined the United Nations and other global organisations to mark the International Youth Day on August 12, 2020, with a line-up of pan-African speakers discussing the theme, “Investing in Africa’s Future: Youth Empowerment through Entrepreneurship”.   The event emphasised the “Youth Engagement for Global Action” agenda …

The Lagos State Chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations today announced that national peace and security will be the thematic focus of the web edition of the seventh Lagos Public Relations Stakeholders’ Conference, holding on Thursday, August 27, 2020. Distinguished speakers headlining the Conference, themed: Adopting Proper Communication …

Obadiah Mailafia, former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says he is ready to lay down his life for his country like Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa. Mandela, the anti-apartheid revolutionary leader, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1962; he served 27 years in prison. …

Following the removal of Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe as vice-chancellor, University of Lagos (UNILAG), the governing council has appointed Prof Omololu Soyombo as acting vice-chancellor. A statement on Wednesday by the university’s council through its secretary and registrar, Oladejo Azeez, reads: “My attention has been drawn to a document circulating under …

A former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Obadiah Mailafia has regained freedom after six- hour grill by Department of State Security (DSS) Jos office. Mailafiya, on Wednesday, honoured the invitation of the Service after he alleged a northern governor is commander of Boko Haram sect. Mailafiya …

Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe Embattled vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe has described his removal from office as false. He said he remains vice chancellor of the institution. Following the school’s Registrar’s announcement of the Governing Council’s decision to remove him, Ogundipe said the removal was a …

The Vice Chancellor of University of Lagos (UNILAG), Professor Olawatoyin Ogundipe, has been sacked by the governing council of the institution, Nigerian Tribune is reporting. His removal was announced during meeting of the Governing Council of the institution which held at the National Universities Commission (NUC) building in Abuja today. Seven members …

The Chairman of Onigbongbo Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, Babatunde Oke, is dead. According to available information, the LG boss died from coronavirus complications. Oke died early in the early hours of Wednesday. It was gathered that the former council boss has been sick for sometime but seemed …