Year 2024

Bank Chiefs Obtain N549bn Insider Loans In Five Years

DIRECTORS and key management personnel of Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) borrowed about N549bn from their financial institutions in five years. This is according to analysis of the banks’ annual reports filed with the Nigerian Exchange Limited between  2019 and 2023.…

Nasarawa Assembly Tasks COE On Academic Excellence

THE Nasarawa State House of Assembly Committee on Education has called on the management of the College of Education Akwanga to maintain high academic excellence Its Chairman and Deputy Majority Leader, Mr Abel Bala, made the call when the committee…

US Embassy In Tanzania Closes Amid Internet Outage

THE United States embassy in Tanzania has announced a temporary closure for two days in response to an internet outage impacting several East African countries. In a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter, the embassy cited ‘degraded network service nationwide’ as the…

GLPGP And ARDA Launch $1bn Fund For Clean Cooking In Africa

IN a groundbreaking initiative ahead of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Summit on Clean Cooking in Africa, the Global LPG Partnership (GLPGP) and the African Refiners and Distributors Association (ARDA) have unveiled plans to establish a $1bn fund dedicated to expanding…