Heritage Bank empowers 5, 544 pupils on financial literacy to secure economy
Lagos, 25 March 2018: As part of efforts to support the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Financial Literacy Day, which marks the Global Money Week, Heritage Bank Plc empowered 5, 544 (pupils and teachers) in 11 secondary schools across the country. The CBN’s Financial Literacy Day is a globally celebrated event …
Read More »UBA Strengthens Brand Affiliation on Nigerian Campuses, Unveils 30 Ambassadors
The United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has launched the second edition of its Campus Ambassador Programme with the induction of 30 new brand ambassadors. The UBA Campus Ambassador Programme is an initiative to identify young emerging leaders among students of tertiary institutions and give them a unique and highly …
Read More »KSM Nigeria Tasks Govt On Security of Lives And Property
Worried by increasing insecurity and despondency in the nation, Catholic Knights of the order of St. Mulumba Nigeria, have called on government to move swiftly to arrest the current state of affairs and reassure all Nigerians, not only in words but in deeds, that, it caters for all. The Knights …
Read More »IG Withdraws Policemen from VIPs, Deploys 2,000 Personnel in 300 N’East Schools
Ibrahim Idris The Inspector General of Police (IG), Mr. Ibrahim Idris, has ordered the immediate withdrawal of all policemen attached to very important persons (VIPs), political and public office holders in the country. He has also deployed no fewer than 2,000 armed policemen in schools in North-eastern Nigeria as part …
Read More »Nigeria’ll break into 6 republics before 2023—Uwazuruike
LEADER of Biafra Independence Movement, BIM and founder of Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike yesterday predicted that what is known today as Nigerian nation would break into six different republics before 2023. He noted that the present pigeonholed six geo-political zones of the …
Read More »Jonathan shared N150bn 2 weeks before 2015 elections—Osinbajo
Vice President, Prof, Yemi Osinbajo, said, yesterday, that whereas ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration spent only N153 billion on infrastructure in the three years preceding 2014, N150 billion was shared in just two weeks before 2015 elections. Osinbajo, who stated this at the 7th Presidential Quarterly Business Forum for private sector …
Read More »Stanbic IBTC offers youth practical lessons on financial knowledge
Stanbic IBTC Bank, a member of Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, has raised the bar in financial literacy education while commemorating this year’s Financial Literacy Day 2018 as part of activities lined up to mark the Global Money Week 12 – 18 March, 2018. The bank moved the full apparatus of …
Read More »Buhari’s politicising Dapchi schoolgirls’ abduction—PDP
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of attempting to score cheap political points with the abduction of schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe State last month. Prsident Buhari and Dapchi school girls In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, yesterday, the party described as iniquitous the …
Read More »CBN commences implementation of N500bn export facility
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday said it has commenced the implementation of the N500 billion non-oil exports stimulation loan. The CBN stated this in a circular titled ‘Circular to All Deposit Money Banks and Development Finance Institutions on the Commencement of the Non-Oil Exports Stimulation Facility (NESF). The …
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