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Ude DataPro, the tech-driven credit rating agency, has affirmed NOVA Merchant Bank Limited’s Long-Term rating of A+ and short-Term ratings of A1 with Stable Outlook. The rating agency explained that the bank was rated as a result of its good financial strength, operating performance and business profile when compared to …

UBA, MFS Africa Africa’s Global Bank, the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc and MFS Africa, Africa’s largest digital payments hub, have announced a partnership that will see both institutions offer innovative and timely solutions to a wide range of customers, especially in the area of Remittances, Electronic Money Services, …

President Muhammadu Buhari met with state governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress at the State House, Abuja on Tuesday. The meeting is coming as APC fine-tunes its strategies on how to pursue the presidential campaign which is few weeks away in September. Those present at the …

Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike alleged on Tuesday that a ‘rapist’ who is a member of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Rivers joined former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to receive Senator Ibrahim Shekarau back into the party. Atiku led PDP members to receive the Senator representing …

ASUU The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says its declaration of indefinite strike after over six months of roll over strike was necessary to save public universities. In a statement on Monday by Emmanuel Osodeke, its president, ASUU said it was compelled to carry out the action because it …

#image_title A fresh crisis is currently brewing in the the National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, over the acquisition of an uncompleted new office complex in Abuja. It was gathered that the management of the commission led by Thomas Olorundare Sunday, the Commissioner For Insurance/CEO, may have deceived President Muhammadu Buhari and …

Zainab Ahmed, Finance Minister Nigeria’s federal government has proposed to borrow over N11 trillion to finance the proposed 2023 budget deficit, a development far above the stipulated threshold in the Fiscal Responsibility Act. Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, budget and national planning, said this on Monday while appearing before the …

Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, Fidelity Bank CEO Fidelity Bank Plc has said it entered a binding agreement to acquire a 100 percent equity stake in Union Bank UK Plc. The bank said this in a corporate filing on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) signed by Ezinwa Unuigboje, the company secretary. According to …

Abba Kyari A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, dismissed the fresh bail application filed by suspended DCP Abba Kyari. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, held that Kyari had not given sufficient grounds for the application to be granted. The judge said the detained police officer failed to raise …

…To employ 30,000 youths in Nasarawa   Management of Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc has resolved to significantly reduce the importation of sugar into the country by 40 percent, thus paving the way for the employment of over 30,000 youths. President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote explained recently in a chat …