Diamond bank has rewarded 30 customers with N100,000 each in the just concluded Diamond Future and Cool-Teens School Fees Saver Scholarship draw held at the bank’s head office in Lagos. The School Fees Savers Scholarship scheme is specially targeted at parents with children / wards in preschool, primary and secondary …

In an unprecedented show of philanthropy, the Aliko Dangote Foundation yesterday in Abuja, donated 150 fully kitted operational cars worth several hundreds of Naira to the Nigeria Police Force. The donation, the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris said was the single biggest donation ever by a private sector operator …

Ahead of the 2019 general elections, President Muhammadu Buhari has asked Nigerians to get their Permanent Voters Card and vote anybody they want. He was speaking at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Tuesday night while breaking Ramadan fast with members of the judiciary led by a Justice of the …

A former publicity secretary of the PDP who came second in the party’s primary for the Ekiti State governorship election,  Prince Dayo Adeyeye, has formerly joined the APC with his supporters. Adeyeye, who scored 771 in the primary held on May 8 in Ado Ekiti, said he decided to pitch …

Amidst the raging intra-party squabble rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State, Governor Rochas Okorocha on Tuesday insisted that he was still in charge of the party and that he had not lost its structure to the opposition – the Coalition Alliance. Governor Okorocha, however, indicated that he …

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has applauded President Muhammadu Buhari for agreeing to deepen democracy by signing the `Not-Too-Young-To-Run’ Bill. NANS said that President Buhari has demonstrated that he is a listening President and father who has the betterment of the youths at heart. “Nigerian students will continue …

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered President Muhammadu Buhari to “urgently instruct security and anti-corruption agencies to forward to him reports of their investigations into allegations of padding and stealing of some N481 billion from the 2016 budget by some principal officers of the National Assembly.” The …

Describing measures taken by the National Pension Commission (PENCOM) to sustain growth of the Nigerian pension industry as apt, Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers Limited has said the micro pension scheme, multi-fund investment structure and Pension account transfer window, to mention but a few, are among initiatives capable of putting the …

AFRICAN insurers’ lose about N1.78 billion ($5 million) annually in premiums transferred to reinsurance companies abroad. According to a special report obtained by Financial Vanguard on confidential basis, and data from African Insurance Organisation (AIO), the losses are stated as 19.7 percent of their non-life business and 2.5 percent of …

Following accusations and counter-accusations between the presidency and former presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan over the $16 billion  power project, Chairman of the National Action Council, NAC, Dr. Olapade Agoro, yesterday, challenged the three leaders to stop the blame-game and explain their roles in series of mismanaged funds since …