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Senate Confirms Appointment Of Omolola Oloworaran As PENCOM DG
BY NGOZI ONYEAKUSI DG, PenCom The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Ms Omolola Oloworaran as the Director General of the National Pension Commission (PENCOM). The confirmation follows the…
CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS REQUEST URGENT ACTION ON FCET, AKOKA, RETURN OF PROVOST
BY NGOZI ONYEAKUSI Two Civil Society Organisations have asked the Federal Government to restore sanity to the Federal College of Education, Akoka, by reinstating the suspended provost, Dr Wahab Ademola…
Private Sector Credit Surged 30% YoY to N75.85tn in September
Nigeria’s private sector credit expanded significantly in the first nine months of 2024, reaching trillion in September, a 30 per cent year-on-year increase from trillion in September 2023. A monthly…
Minimum wage hike to swell FG’s personnel, pension costs by N3.57trn in 2025
The Federal Government has projected a notable rise in personnel and pension costs for 2025, primarily driven by the implementation of the new minimum wage. According to an analysis…
NAICOM, NEM, NGX, Linkage, STI, NLNG, Leadway, NCDMB, Veritas, Stanbic IBTC Insurance, Others for Business Journal Annual Lecture 2024
BY NGOZI ONYEAKUSI A long list of blue-chip corporate organisations in the public sector and the Organised Private Sector (OPS) have pitched tent with the Business Journal Annual Lecture 2024…
Recreating Nigeria to avert collapse
By Michael Owhoko, *Dr Michael Owhoko Root cause of Nigeria’s problem is, unarguably, inappropriate system of government. Bad governance, poor economy, insecurity and corruption are just offshoots. It…
Heirs Insurance Sector Head Calls for AI Innovation to Drive Insurance Growth
BY NGOZI ONYEAKUSI L-R Niyi Onifade, Sector Head, Heirs Insurance Group and Bubacaarr Jarju, President West African Insurance Companies Association Niyi Onifade, Sector Head of Heirs Insurance Group, Nigeria’s…
Leadway Reaffirms Commitment to Supporting Women
BY NGOZI ONYEAKUSI Leading non-banking financial services group, Leadway Group has reaffirmed its commitment to empowering women in different spheres of professional life. This position was espoused at the recent…
STI Takes Insurance Education To Igbobi College
L-R: Simon Mensah, Senior Manager/Head, Strategy & Corporate Planning, Adeleye Abolade, Folusho Opeodu, Chima Nwachukwu, Author (When Life Happens) and Shalom Aboderin of the Strategy & Corporate Planning Department with…
Reforms in Nigeria not working, IMF report hints
...Food sector stakeholders score policies low The latest outlook report of the International Monetary Fund, IMF, for sub-Sahara Africa has indicated that the broad-based economic reforms embarked…