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CBN Gov Yemi Cardoso and Binance Binance Nigeria has announced that it will discontinue all its Naira services from March 8 following the clampdown on the company by the federal government. Binance shared the decision in a statement on its app. The company, which is the world’s largest crypto platform, said …

The new employees were about 860, a document from the National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission read. The Public Complaints Commission (PCC) is struggling to ensure payment of salaries after the secret recruitment of new employees without recourse to extant guidelines. The new employees were about 860, a document from …

Ola Olukoyede EFCC chairman The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ola Olukoyede has raised the alarm that an estimated 70 per cent of financial crimes in Nigeria is traceable to the banking sector. Olukoyede spoke on Monday at the 2024 Annual retreat of the Association …

Although the company said it honoured its pledge to reduce its price of cement to N3500, it accused the intermediaries and wholesalers whom the company said had prevented the intended recipients, the end-users, from accessing the reduced price. The management of BUA Cement Company has explained the reasons why its …

  Mr Ibu and Charles Inojie Nollywood actor and director Charles Inojie has described the death of his colleague, John Okafor, aka Mr Ibu, as an “irreparable loss” to the Nigerian movie industry. He stated that the late comic actor is irreplaceable in Nollywood, stressing that casting him alone was …

FBNBank Ghana, Bank of Ghana and GTBank Ghana Logos The Bank of Ghana has suspended the Foreign Exchange Trading Licences of Guaranty Trust Bank Ghana Limited (GTB) and FBNBank Ghana Limited (FBN). The ban is effective from 18th March 2024 and would last for one month, Ghana’s central bank said. …

Airtel Africa Airtel Africa Plc has bought back 491,861 shares held by Citigroup Global Markets Limited in multiple deals worth £48m The deal is part of the company’s share buy-back programme which it announced on March 1, 2024. Airtel said it purchased the number of its ordinary “Shares of $0.50 …

In commemoration of the March 8, 2024, International Women’s Day (IWD), the Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Dr Gambo Aliyu, has decried the high population of women living with HIV in the country. According to him, six out of ten persons living with HIV …

Transcorp Power Plc, a power subsidiary of Transnational Corporation Plc (Transcorp Group), has listed its shares via introduction on the Main Board of the Nigerian Exchange (NGX), adding more than N1.8 trillion to the market capitalization of NGX and further boosting liquidity in the Nigerian capital market.  The listing was celebrated on the …

Spotlight by Mmakamba, a foremost and leading experiential marketing agency known for crafting remarkable experiences, has concluded plans to host the second edition of this year’s Owambe Party tagged “Easter Vaganza”. Scheduled to hold on Saturday, March 30 2024 at the prestigious Amore Gardens, Lekki Phase 1 Lagos, the highly …