Stakeholders of insurance companies with offshore operations have been in the dark regarding the success or otherwise of these foreign investments as the affected insurance companies refuse to keep a consolidated account of all their operations.
FOLLOWING the recent grant of licenses to mobile money service providers by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), United Bank for Africa (UBA) in conjunction with its associate company; Afripay Limited, has blazed the trail by being the first of the 11 licensees, to roll out commercially, following the launch of Nigeria’s first mobile money service; U-Mo in Lagos on November 24, 2011.
The European Union and United States Energy Council have called on the Federal Government to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill as part of measures to increase transparency in the nation’s energy resource development.
Nsukka- Some residents of Nsukka have called on the Federal Government to name some public structures after the late Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu as a way of rewarding his numerous contributions to national development.
A- non-Governmental organization, Global Centre for Peace and Justice, has commended Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State for approving N20,100 minimum wage for workers in the state.
ALTHOUGH much like an overdue prophesy but when it finally came, the ouster of Farida Waziri still happened rather suddenly.
SEVERAL Nigerians are embracing the cashless policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), as over two million Verve card-holders have qualified to participate in the ongoing second edition of Verve national consumer promo.
THE Senate, yesterday, passed the Same Sex Marriage bill prohibiting all marriages between man and man and between woman and woman.
The Senate, yesterday resolved to urge the Federal Government to immortalise the late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukuemeka Odumegwu- Ojukwu.
The Presbyterian Church of Nigeria has commended President Goodluck Jonathan for his efforts in tackling the Boko Haram menace.
Coach Autin Egavoen was battling it out last night for 2012 Olympics soccer ticket and win or lose the football federation has decided to make it an official policy that local players constitute a certain percentage of the Olympic team.
National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, is set to give relief materials to victims of the Yobe and Borno states’ bomb blasts.
WEEKS have passed since the renewed media skirmishes that pitched my Governor, Mr. Peter Obi and his media managers against some leading columnists who are of Anambra origin. At the centre of it all is what one may refer to as an x-ray or rather, a cultivated media inquest of the leadership of the state.
Nigeria U23 coach, Austin Eguavoen is still lamenting the absence of his key players at the CAF Olympic qualifiers in Morocco two days into the tournament.
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