Unswerving in its quest to create a veritable platform for building an entrepreneurial spirit in the country’s teeming youths, Fidelity Bank Plc has expanded the scope of the Fidelity Youth Empowerment Academy (YEA) in a bid to accommodate new areas of vocational training. On February 10, 2020, the bank in …
Read More »Tony Elumelu Foundation Disburses First Tranche of $5m Partnership Commitment from African Development Bank
AfDB Joins TEF Programme Catalysing Entrepreneurship Across Africa From Right to Left: Tony O. Elumelu, CON, Founder, Tony Elumelu Foundation and Akinwunmi Adesina, President, African Development Bank (AfDB) at the 2019 Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Forum – Africa’s largest entrepreneurship conference. Tony O. Elumelu, CON, has congratulated the African …
Read More »Customers Drag FCMB To Court, Slam N7bn Suit over Breach of Contract’
In a 126 paragraphs of statement of claim accompanied by another 27 paragraphs of a witness sworn to on oath and filed before a Federal high court sitting in Lagos south west Nigeria by a Lagos lawyer Mr. John Olusegun Odubela SAN, the two companies alleged that they operated …
Read More »My Parents Never Knew I Could Survive Infancy, Says Fayemi
Dr Kayode Fayemi * Govs, others storm Ekiti for his 55th birthday The Governor of Ekiti State yesterday celebrated his 55th birthday with a revelation that his late parents thought he would die at the childhood stage. This is coming as many governors and other important personalities yesterday stormed the state …
Read More »House Seeks More Funds to Enhance Efficiency
Despite the whopping N128 billion approved for the National Assembly in the 2020 budget, the House of Representatives has said paucity of funds hampers it from carrying out its assignments. Its spokesman, Hon. Ben Kalu, while addressing journalists at the weekend in Abuja, called on the federal government to make …
Read More »Falana hits Buhari, says Nigerian hospitals now mortuaries
Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), on Sunday called on Nigerians to demand improved health care from the regime of the President Muhammadu Buhari. Falana said it was unfair that Buhari “always travels abroad for medical care while the generality of Nigerians have no other choice but to go …
Read More »Lagos commissioner, Ajibola Ponnle’s marriage crumbles, moves in with new lover
Ajibola Ponnle These are certainly not the best of times for Lagos State Commissioner for Establishment, Training, and Pensions, Ajibola Ponnle, as information reaching this newspaper revealed that her marriage to Lagos big boy, Michael, who was the chief executive officer of defunct Origin Oil and Gas, is at the …
Read More »Salary padding scandal rocks UBTH, UNIJOS, UI, others
Many Federal Government agencies, including universities and teaching hospitals are involved in the inflation of personnel budget running into billions of naira, according to Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, the chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Investigation Commission(ICPC). In a startling report made public late last year in Abuja, in …
Read More »Heritage Bank empowers 2000 female entrepreneurs via financial inclusivity initiatives
Taking into consideration the importance of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to the economy, Heritage Bank Plc has continued to structure financial inclusivity initiatives in empowering over 2000 female entrepreneurs towards economic enablement and self-realization. This move is in line with the people-oriented policies of the Central Bank of …
Read More »Keystone Bank, Afreximbank, others partner to promote African Creative Industry
Keystone Bank Limited has re-emphasised its commitment to the growth and development of the Africa’s creative industry as the lender recently partnered with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and other multilateral agencies to host the maiden edition of the Creative Africa Exchange Weekend (CAX WKND) in Kigali, Rwanda. According to …
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