The Senate yesterday passed the N243.374 billion 2019 budget bill of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as well as eight other bills. The upper chamber of the National Assembly had at plenary authorised the issuance from the Federal Capital Territory Administration Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federal Capital Territory Administration …
Read More »Access GMD, Wigwe visits school, mentors students to mark Children’s Day 2019
L-R: Group Head, Corporate Communications and External Affairs, Access Bank Plc., Amaechi Okobi; The Principal, Girls Secondary Grammar School (GSGS), Mrs. P.E. Oni; Group Managing Director, Access Bank Plc., Herbert Wigwe; The Head Girl, GSGS, Odiase Kehinde; Chief Executive Officer, ACT Foundation, Osayi Allie; and the Executive Director, Junior Achievement …
Read More »3-yr-old boy died as Another building collapses in Lagos
One of the houses marked for demolition located on the Lagos Island collapsed yesterday, killed a three-year-old boy. The deceased, according to neighbours, is a twin who had gone to bed Monday night only to be trapped under the collapsed structure at the popular Oju-Ina area of Agarawu, Lagos Island. …
Read More »Speakership: Plaintiff withdraws suit against Gbajabiamila, says ‘he was not convicted in the US’
The plaintiff in the suit filed against the eligibility of Femi Gbajabiamila, to contest for the position of the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the 9th National Assembly has withdrawn the suit. The plaintiff, Philip Undie, in a letter titled, “Authorization To File My Withdrawal From Suit Number: …
Read More »UBA Mastercard Holders to Win All-expenses-paid Trip to June 1 Finals of 2019 UEFA Champions League
Leading Pan-African Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc in partnership with leading global payments and technology company, Mastercard, will be giving away an all-expenses paid trip- ticket to 12 lucky customers of the bank and their plus ones to watch the Finals of the 2019 UEFA Champions League. Open to …
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Keystone Bank partners Facebook to train entrepreneurs on digital marketing
Keystone Bank Limited has again reaffirmed its commitment to providing support for the real sector as it recently partnered Facebook via its partners, Rabbington Media, to organize a capacity building training on digital marketing for its Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) customers in Lagos State. According to the lender, …
Read More »Zamfara polls: Jubilation as Supreme Court nullifies APC candidates’ elections, declares PDP winner
The Supreme Court on Friday nullified the elections of all the candidates of the All Progressives Congress in Zamfara State in the 2019 general elections. Delivering a unanimous judgment of the five-man panel led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, the apex court declared the first …
Read More »ZENITH BANK ACHIEVES FEAT OF FIRST NIGERIAN BANK TO CONSECUTIVELY AUDIT ITS GREENHOUSE GAS (CARBON) EMISSIONS AND BE CERTIFIED COMPLIANT USING INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED “GHG PROTOCOL”.
Zenith Bank Plc was presented with a Certificate for Greenhouse Gas Auditing by V4 Advisors after a successful completion of the Bank’s Greenhouse Gas Audit for the 2018 Financial Year. The presentation of the certificate and the report of the Auditors was done by V4 Advisors at the Zenith Bank …
Read More »Audit report indicts NPA MD, Hadiza Bala-Usman of N20bn contract fraud
NPA MD, Hadiza Bala-Usman These are not the best of times for the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala-Usman, as an audit report conducted by the Auditor-General’s office has allegedly indicted the her for various questionable transactions. Part of the recommendations include that the Bala-Usman-led NPA should …
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