The President/Chief Executive, Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote has disclosed plans to increase the human capacity at the Dangote Refinery Project site from 40,000 to 57,000 personnel in the coming months. According to him, the project currently employs 29,000 Nigerians and 11,000 foreigners at the 650,000 barrels-per-day world’s largest single …
Read More »Polaris Bank Emerges Top Fraudulent Bank, Over N900m Stolen In One Year
The management of the Innocent C. Ike-led Polaris Bank Plc is still trying to recover from the embarrassment caused by one of its employees working at its Computer Village, Ikeja, Lagos Branch, after he stole a whopping N20 million from a customer within seven days. While the dust raised …
Read More »Court freezes ex-Bank PHB MD, Francis Atuche’s N19.1bn in 24 banks
Francis Atuche A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja has frozen assets and funds to the tune of N19,178,253050 billion allegedly kept in 24 banks by Francis Atuche, a convicted former managing director of the defunct Platinum Habib Bank, Bank PHB. The banks include Access Bank Plc, Citi Bank Ltd, …
Read More »Insecurity: Zamfara shuts schools, imposes dusk-to-dawn curfew
Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle The Zamfara State government on Wednesday announced a dusk-to-dawn curfew on 13 local government areas of the state. Commissioner of Police in the state, Ayuba Elkana, announced the curfew while addressing newsmen in Gusau, the state capital. Elkana said the 6pm to 6am curfew is …
Read More »Air Peace signs sponsorship agreement with NFF
From left Nana Ama De-Man, Cabin Executive; Air Peace Ltd; Mrs Aishat Falode, Chairperson, Nigerian Female Football League; Mr Amaju Pinnick, President, Nigerian Football Federation NFF; Barrister Allen Onyema, Chairman, Air Peace Ltd; Neda Kheiri Head, Marketing, Air Peace Ltd and Precious Eluwah, Cabin Executive during the Air peace Ltd …
Read More »I am not yet interested in 2023 presidential election – Akeredolu
The governor of Ondo state, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has distanced himself from promotional activities linking him with the 2023 presidential election. A statement by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde said his principal had nothing to do with the pseudo campaigners. In the last two weeks, campaign posters and fliers …
Read More »BREAKING: Buhari sacks two ministers, redeploys two others
President Muhammadu Buhari has relieved two ministers in his cabinet of their appointments. They are the Ministers of Agriculture, Mohammed Nanono, and his Power counterpart, Saleh Mamman. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, announced this on Wednesday in Abuja after the Federal Executive Council …
Read More »BREAKING: Again, gunmen strike in Zamfara school, kidnap students
Some armed bandits, on Wednesday, attacked Government Secondary School Kaya in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State, abducting an unspecified numbers of students and teachers. We gathered that the students were abducted while in school. The number of the students kidnapped can not be ascertained as at the time …
Read More »Fidelity Bank defies CBN directives, sacks over 200 staff after tricking them
Nneka-Onyeali-Ikpe, Fidelity Bank MD/CEO Fidelity Bank Plc under the leadership of Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe has reportedly sacked over 200 staff amidst the economic crisis rocking the country. The development is however in defiance to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s order directing money deposit banks in the country to stop further retrenchment …
Read More »VFD Group Kicks-off Graduate Trainee Program to Create Opportunities for Graduates
In the fourth quarter of 2020, unemployment rate in Nigeria increased to 33.30 percent from 27.10 percent in the second quarter of 2020 according to the Bureau of Statistics. The rate of unemployment in Nigeria continues to increase at an alarming rate and it requires meaningful and tangible actions. As a socially conscious organization, VFD Group, a proprietary investment company, has kicked off application …
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