Archives for August 9, 2019
Adequate technology adoption will check poor forecast, risks in oil industry- Seplat
By Ngozi Onyeakusi -- The Executive Operations Director at Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc, Mr. Effiong Okon, has said the right adoption of contemporary technologies like Artificial Intelligence…
NAIPCO 4th Annual Confab: Stakeholders To Discus Financial Inclusion In Insurance, Pension Sectors
By Ngozi Onyeakusi -- As Nigeria seeks to drive financial inclusion with the target of achieving 80 per cent penetration by 2020, stakeholders in the financial service sector…
Iwu charged with N1.2bn fraud, remanded in DSS custody
Justice Chuka Obiozor of the Federal High Court, Lagos on Thursday remanded the former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Maurice Iwu, in the custody…
MTN To Redeem $315m Nigeria Preference Shares As Part Of Divestment Plan
MTN Group Ltd is on track to meet a divestment target set in March after raising $140 million from asset sales that will slim down Africa’s largest mobile…
NNPC Urges NLNG On New Investment Drives
The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (has urged the management of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) to look beyond the planned execution of the much awaited Final Investment…
Twins, Mother Detained, Sleep On Floor Over N85,000 Bill
A one week old twins and their mother, Titilayo Alayode, are sleeping on the floor as they are allegedly being detained at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Lantoro,…
EFCC Hands Over Bade’s Forfeited Property To NEDC
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, August 8, 2019, handed over a 13 bedroom, one-storey building and a basement, forfeited by the late Chief of…
Access Bank Partners Federal Ministry of Women Affairs on ‘50 Million Women Speak Project with ECOWAS’
By Ngozi Onyeakusi -- Access Bank, through its W Initiative has partnered with the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs on the 50 Million Women Speak Project with ECOWAS…
Total Pension Fund Assets Soars To N9.32tn
By Ngozi Onyeakusi -- National Pension Commission (PenCom) has disclosed that the total assets under the Contributory Pension Scheme has grown to as of the end of…