FIDELITY Bank Nigeria Plc has refuted the story earlier published by Trojan.com.ng that its former Managing Director/CEO, Mr. Nnamdi Okonkwo will soon have his tenure between 2014 and 2020 probed. The rebuttal was contained in a press statement made available to…
THE Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) Plc has guaranteed N266.97 billion ($648 million) bank loans to different agriculture-focused companies in the last five years. Speaking during a tour of ADT Russet’s factory in Apapa, Lagos, NIRSAL…
ONE hundred and nine thousand schools in Lagos State are yet to be enrolled into the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme, it has been learnt. Project Manager Yinka Makinwa stated this during a stakeholders’ engagement with the state Ministry…
The Federal Government plans to spend N900 billion on subsidy payout to oil marketers next year, Finance, Budget and National Planning Minister Zainab Ahmed said yesterday. She dropped the hint at the presentation of the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework/Fiscal Strategy Paper…
JUSTICE E. A. Obile of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Monday, June 28, 2021 convicted and sentenced Ekene Alobo, to two years imprisonment for stealing and obtaining money by false pretence, contrary to section…
The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, have expressed their zeal to join hands with the EFCC to stamp out corruption from Nigerian Universities and the country at large. Chidi Nzekwe, the Association’s National Director of Culture and Tourism made…
Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) on Wednesday berated governors of the 19 Northern states for the rising youth unemployment in the region.The organization drew a link between unemployment and crime, warning that the situation is a time bomb. ACF lamented that the…
Banks have commenced engagements with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on how to lend the corporation $3.9 billion to acquire 20 percent equity in the $19 billion Dangote Petroleum Refinery. The news about NNPC’s plan to buy equity in…
The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on June 25, 2021, secured the conviction and sentencing of one Disu Rafiu Adeigbe, 67, before Justice Sherifat Sholebo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos…
The militant group, Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), has returned to the creeks to resume hostilities in the region. The militant group said it has launched “Operation Humble” to end the exploitation of the region’s resources. The group, in a statement…
