Investors have continued to lament the long delay associated with the verification of share certificates by registrars among others.
The investors who daily besieged registrars of quoted companies in their thousands are faced with various difficulties, ranging from verification of their share certificates, dividend warrant enquiries, re-validation of their warrant and probate letter of administration.

The Board of Afprint Nigeria Plc last week expressed its commitment in meeting their final obligations to the minority shareholders of the textile company.

The Managing Director of Meridian Microfinance Bank, Mr. Innocent Ezema, has blamed lack of staff training for the poor performance of MFBs.

Mr Francis Atuche, former Managing Director of Bank PHB, and Spring Bank’s former Managing Director, Charles Ojo, have asked a Federal High Court in Lagos to dismiss the corruption charges brought against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

The Federal Government says it is ready to cooperate with the British Council in the area of business productivity and job creation. This is contained in a statement from the Ministry of Science and Technology given to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja.

Chief John Odeyemi, Chairman, Ecobank Plc, on Wednesday said that the ongoing reform in the banking sector and the non-passage of the budget was adversely affecting the private sector. Odeyemi, a former National President of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, made the remark in Abuja while answering questions from newsmen.

As the controversy over the Container Tracking Note (CTN) rages, the management of Transport and Ports Management Limited (TPML) has said that the introduction of the new policy will not be an additional cost to importer.

By Ndahi Marama MAIDUGURI—DETERMINED to ensure positive government and labour working relationship, Governor Ali Modu Sheriff of Borno State has approved the appoint-ment of an eight-member committee for the immediate payment of pensioners of the state and local governments. The committee members are the Commissioner of Urban and Rural Water Supply, Alhaji Abubakar Kyari as […]

AWKA—The Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, governorship candidate in Anambra State,  Mrs Uche Ekwunife, has warned voters in the state of the dire consequence of selling their voter’s card to dubious politicians, who are bent on truncating democracy in the country, while perpetuating corruption and poverty in the land. Mrs Ekwunife,  who made the call while […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni & Monsur Olowoopejo LAGOS — IN what seemed to be a yearly routine, relatives of the 2002 Oke- Afa, Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, bomb blast victims as well as rescue teams (divers) have continued to lament their plights over the unfufilled promise to compensate them by the federal and state […]

By  Tony Edike ENUGU—A group of Anambra people living in Germany, yesterday, hailed the programme of action and manifesto presented by the governorship candidate of the Action Congress, AC, Dr. Chris Ngige at the widely-televised political debate organised for contestants ahead of the February 6 governorship poll. The group, Anambrarians in Diaspora, said in a […]

By  Tony Edike ENUGU—TRADITIONAL Ruler of Ohofia-Ndumeze Kingdom in Aninri Local Government Area of Enugu State, Igwe Onyioha Nwanjoku, has officially received his staff of office from the Enugu State Government. Governor Sullivan Chime presented the staff, which is a symbol of authority to Nwanjoku, a former chairman of the PDP in the state during […]

By Taye Obateru Jos — Regional Council for Conflict Management and Mitigation (CMMRC-IFESH USAID) has urged the Plateau State government to immediately institute a process of dialogue for all stakeholders in the state as a way of solving the problem of recurring violence in the state. The body in a statement yesterday signed by its […]

By Abdulwahab  Abdulah LAGOS — JUSTICE Morenike Obadina of an Ikeja High Court, has sentenced a herbalist, Femi Bamidele, to five years imprisonment for defrauding one  Emeka Marcus of  N968,000 under the pretence of spiritual healing. Apart from the jail term handed down on the convict, the court ordered a restitution of the money defrauded […]

By Peter Duru MAKURDI — A 32-year-old herbal medicine practitioner (names withheld) has been nabbed by men of Benue State Police Command for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old Miss. Nguavese Mtagher-gah. Vanguard gathered that Nguavese had accompanied her grandmother, who was sick, to a herbal home jointly owned by the alleged killer and another […]