First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s leading financial inclusion services provider, has graduated 12 successful candidates in the third edition of its Senior Management Development Programme (SMDP). The graduation ceremony held virtually, via the Zoom video conferencing platform on Wednesday, 2 September, 2020. The Senior Management Development Programme (SMDP) is …
Read More »International Literacy Day 2020: FirstBank Set The Pace With Innovative e-learning Solutions
By Eche Munonye Covid-19 brought a huge challenge to education and literacy, First Bank of Nigeria Limited responded with a Rosetta stone of innovative e-learning initiatives that have far-reaching effects Since 1967 that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have been celebrating International Literacy Day to promote …
Read More »Union Bank Staff In EFCC Net Dupes Customer Of N80m
The Kano Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC), has arraigned one Kolapo Oduwole before Justice Musa Danladi of the Katsina State High Court on a six -count charge of forgery and fraud in the sum of N80,000,000( Eighty Million Naira only). According to EFCC Head of Media …
Read More »Ray of hope as Nigeria’s COVID-19 figures dwindle.
With the continuous increase in the rate of recovery from the dreaded Coronavirus, Nigeria appears to be winning the war against the pandemic that has wreaked havoc across the globe. Data gathered from the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control by P+ Measurement Services in the month of August saw Nigeria recording …
Read More »9mobile doles out N20m, 1000 smartphones in ‘Mega Million’ promo
9mobile has announced the giveaway of N20 million naira, 1000 smartphones to customers in its promo tagged Mega Million promo. The promo, across various regions of the country, continues to gift lucky winners with life-changing uplift and relief especially in the wake of the economic effects of Covid-19. Mega Million …
Read More »AMCON takes over Hydro Hotels over N600m debt
The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has recorded another victory over an obligor whose total indebtedness is over N600million with the takeover of the assets of Hydro Hotels Limited. This was confirmed during the weekend by Mr. Jude Nwauzor, who is Head of the Corporate Communications Department at the …
Read More »Fuel, electricity tariff increase callous, insensitive, says YOV
…Demands immediate reversal The Yoruba One Voice (YOV), a coalition of all Yoruba groups and organisations in the diaspora consisting of more than fifty Yoruba organisations from the four continents of the world strongly display concerns over the federal government increase of electricity tariff and fuel price. In a press …
Read More »Access Bank earns N61bn in H1 2020
Access bank Plc, Nigerian tier-1 bank, and biggest in customer size has released its half-year ended June 2020 financial statement. The results revealed that the lender grew its Post Tax Profit by 1% Year-on-Year (YonY) to N61.0 billion from N61.8 billion. The Bank has therefore proposed an Interim Dividend of …
Read More »COVID-19: How ecommerce sustained thousands of jobs during lockdown
By Adedoyin Giwa Job cuts, layoffs, wage cuts, and employee redundancy have continued to exacerbate as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its resultant global economic recession continue to take its damaging toll on our socio-economic life, the economy and every other human activity across countries. According to the recent update …
Read More »Curfew: Police detain Lagos doctor as pregnant woman, baby die
The life of a pregnant woman may have been saved if the doctor that was to operate on her was not allegedly held by policemen enforcing the curfew in place to restrict movement amid the COVID-19 pandemic. PUNCH Metro gathered that the surgeon was held for about one hour …
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