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FirstBank, the West African premier financial institution and financial inclusion services provider is proud to announce its 2024 Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CR&S) Week, scheduled for 19 to 24 August. This year’s edition aims to reinforce the bank’s positive outcomes of sowing seeds of kindness by empowering the lives of …

Telecommunications company, Globacom, has launched WiFlix, an innovative service, which avails customers the opportunity to stream unlimited video content across different platforms. “The service gives access to 30,000 Hours of video content from Wanner Media, Dolby, Sony Pictures, Media Guru, Mimyuni Media, Content Box, Rushlake Media GmbH, SPI International, Echelon Studios, Vlogbox …

  Digital services and telecommunications company, Globacom, has unveiled M-Agric, an agricultural support service that guides users through practical, step-by-step processes of managing successful farming businesses across Livestock, Aquaculture, Cash Crops and Value-Additions.    In a statement in Lagos, Globacom said it partnered with the Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture …

By Julius Akpovire Mele Kyari, the group chief executive officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, has again demonstrated the words of American Singer and actor, Frank Sinatra that “the best revenge is massive success.” Despite the multiple campaigns of calumny, lies, plots and character assassination sponsored by …

The Nigerian Exchange Ltd. (NGX) has lifted the suspension placed on trading in the shares of Guinea Insurance Plc, effective Aug.12. In its weekly report made available to newsmen in Lagos, NGX confirmed that the suspension was lifted because the insurer had filed its audited financial statements for the year …

The Economist Intelligence Unit has issued a warning that further delays in crude oil feedstock to the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals could jeopardise Nigeria’s economic recovery and put additional pressure on the naira. The research and analysis division of the Economist Group said the Dangote refinery which began production …

The judge refused the ex parte motion, describing it as a clear breach of Section 36 of the 1999 Constitution, which guarantees the right to a fair hearing.  NewsOnline Nigeria reports that the Federal High Court in Abuja has denied a motion by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) seeking …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has detained the Executive Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, Jalal Arabi, and the commission’s secretary, Abdullahi Kontagora, over mismanagement of the N90bn 2024 Hajj subsidy. In a document sighted by The PUNCH, on Wednesday, the anti-graft agency said, “A total of SR314,098 was …

Dangote Cement Plc has launched a novel Internship Scheme for students of tertiary institutions in the country that will see the students undergoing a one-year internship fully funded by the leading cement company. The scheme, according to the Dangote Cement Lagos Regional Sales Director, Mr. Tunde Mabogunje during the induction …

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Tuesday handed over the Vice-Chairmanship seat of the World Customs Organisation (WCO), West Africa and Central Region, to Mali at a ceremony held at Abuja, At the ceremony, the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, Adewale Adeniyi, handed over to his Malian counterpart, Amadou Konate. …