No fewer than 84,758 entrepreneurs have benefited from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through the Entrepreneurship Development Centres (EDCs) over the last four years, the CBN governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has said. The beneficiaries compri...
Casual staff engaged by the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) have decried that they are being excluded and marginalised by the management of the board.This was disclosed by some of the affected members of staff, who preferred anonymity, at t...
Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP-17) in Durban, South Africa, participants at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Symposium on ICTs and Climate Change in Ghana have renewed calls for global leaders to recognise the power of in...
Ahead of full compliance by Nigeria banks with the newly adopted Nigerian Uniform Bank Account Numbering (NUBAN), Union Registrar Limited has commenced revalidation of e-dividend mandates of shareholders in various company registers. The Managing Direc...
Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has assented to the Hotels and Events Centres Occupancy and Restaurants Consumption Tax Law recently passed by the House of Assembly. The Law envisages the imposition of a consumption tax on any person who p...
Union Bank has put in place a strategic plan that would enable it key into the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) ahead of the 2012 deadline set by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The bank organised a one week workshop on the basics ...
The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has disclosed that 19 insurers, including Industrial and General Insurance Plc, Great Nigeria Insurance and Nigerian Reinsurance Corporation were yet to submit their financials for the year ended December 31, ...
With the planned delisting of Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC), makers of Coca-Cola, Fanta and Sprite from the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), shareholders in the market have said that they would rally Nigerians to boycott the company’s products. T...
Security was massive and tight on Sunday in Suleja as the All Christians Fellowship Mission held a memorial service for its three members who died in a bomb explosion. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the divisional police officer in charg...
President Goodluck Jonathan has been urged to as a matter of national interest and priority sign into law the Amended Personal Income Tax Bill. The call is contained in a communiqué issued in Kaduna at the end of the North-West zone meeting of the Pay...
A renowned political scientist and former Head of Political Science Department of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Dr. Abubakar Siddique Mohammed has said that Nigeria is not a failed state, and that those advancing the position have neither the base nor...
Former Nigeria international, Austin Okocha has faulted the international friendly rematch between the Super Eagles and their Argentine counterparts billed for Dhaka, Bangladesh on September 6. Okocha, now a member of the Nigeria Football Federa...
The 2011 FIFA ‘Ballon d’Or’ will only be handed next January, but there’s little doubt that the winner will be the same as in the past two editions of the award: FC Barcelona’s mercurial player Lionel Messi.While most peop...
It’s not too early to examine how Rafael Nadal fits in with the all-time tennis greats.Only 25 years old, Nadal has won 10 Grand Slam titles. Earlier this year he tied Bjorn Borg for a record six French Open victories and is poised to win his sev...
Friday Ekpo was arguably the Super Eagles’ best midfielder of all time, eclipsed perhaps, by the sheer skill of Jay Jay Okocha. But football insiders will still tell you that Ekpo’sgame was more purposeful, void of show-boating and his atta...