Category: News

Saudi Arabia announces Sallah, Arafat dates

  Saudi Arabia has announced the dates for the 2024 Eid Al-Ahda, popularly called Sallah in Nigeria, and Arafat. The Saudi Arabia Supreme Court announced the dates...

Why I relocated business from Southeast to Lagos- Cubana Chief Priest

Says” hunger and envy made community members point us to kidnappers” Caption: •Pascal Okechukwu, popularly known as Cubana Chief   Socialite Pascal...

Why Minimum Wage Is a Bad Idea

  Azu Ishiekwene I’m opposed to minimum wage. And I know I’m saying this at the risk of losing readers. The minimum wage hurts the poor and vulnerable in whose...

Heritage Bank:NDIC poised to recover N700bn loans owed by 2.3m depositors

  The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, has announced that it will pay out insured deposits to depositors of the defunct Heritage Bank who have N5m or...

Bill on cattle ranching causes division between Northern and Southern senators

  Northern senators and those from other geo-political zones of the country clashed on Wednesday when a bill for an act to establish National Animal Husbandry and...

NETCO Posts 137% Increase in Operating Profit for 2023

………Targets 5% Increase in Market Share through EPC Projects The NNPC Engineering and Technical Company (NETCO), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National...

Culpable Homicide:25 Ajayi Crowther varsity undergraduates arraigned for beating fellow student to death

  Twenty-five students of the Ajayi Crowther University in Oyo State were on Wednesday arraigned before Chief Magistrate Court in connection with the murder of Alex...

Recapitalisation:Fidelity Bank undertakes ₦29.6 billion rights issue, ₦97.5 billion public offer

  Fidelity Bank Plc (“Fidelity Bank” or the “Bank”) has concluded all necessary arrangements to raise a total of up to ₦127,100,000,000.00 (One Hundred...

Fidelity Bank outperforms banks, stock market with 507% gain in 5 years

Photo Caption:L – R: Stanley Amuchie, Executive Director, Chief Operations & Information Officer, Fidelity Bank Plc; Oladele Sotubo, MD/CEO Stanbic Capital; Dr...

El Rufai

Kaduna Assembly wants El-Rufai tried for money laundering, abuse of office — Assembly

  The Kaduna State House of Assembly has recommended that the immediate-past governor of the state, Nasir el-Rufai, be prosecuted for alleged abuse of office and...