GTBank Plc has announced a dividend of N0.75 per share and a bonus of one ordinary share for every four ordinary shares held by its shareholders for its 2009 financial year.

Commercial Banks operating in the country have been berated for failing in their social responsibilities to their host communities despite huge profits the individual banks post at the end of every financial year.

Marketer of auto mobile tyres, DN Tyre & Rubber Plc (DNTR) renewed the delight of many customers at the ongoing Abuja Trade Fair when it showcased the latest Dunlop tyres.

Standard Bank has been recognised for its excellence in emerging markets winning three awards in the prestigious The Banker ‘Deal of Year’ Awards for 2010.

THE International Finance Corporation, IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has agreed to invest $100 million in the Africa Infrastructure Investment Fund 2, an equity fund that would promote the development of basic infrastructure in Africa.

INDICATIONS emerged, Wednesday, that all is still not well with Zain as pioneer GSM investors in Nigeria, Econet Wireless International, is determined to return to the country by getting Zain’s deal with Bharti Airtel reversed so that it can exercise its right of first refusal on the 65 per cent stake that Zain is selling to Bharti.

Eagles technical adviser, Lars Lagerback, has declared that there would be no room in his team, for players who approach the team with a half heart.

Some maritime stakeholders have kicked against the appointment of a non-core transport professional as Minister of Transport while the appointment of Mrs. Zeiani Allison-Madueke as the Minister of Petroleum Resources, has been condemned by the Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, ERA/FoN, Mr. Nnimmo Bassey, who described her appointment as unacceptable.

The new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Odein Ajumogobia has invited the contractors handling the new Ministry of Affairs headquarters building to a meeting in his office to explain the slow pace of work and other issues related to the building.

All is set for the commencement of the 2010 Lagos Governor’s Cup football competition which begins later this month at various centres across the state.

WAFU President, Dr. Amos Adamu, has urged West African countries not to forget how Ghana moulded the team that won the FIFA Under-20 World Cup in Egypt and went further to present almost the same team in the Angola Nations Cup where they won the silver, losing to Egypt in the final this January.Adamu reacted this way yesterday:

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Marvel Akpoyibo, Wednesday paid a condolence visit to the family of the late Charles Okafor who was killed during a raid by some policemen from Ajegunle division, where he said all policemen that took part in the raid had been arrested.

The Disciplinary Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation rose from its meeting held on Tuesday, 6th April at the NFF Secretariat, Abuja, banning Barrister Ray Nnaji, a former Board member of the Nigeria Premier League, from all football–related activities within the Nigeria sovereignty.

The Lagos State government has attributed fraud assisted with the Automated Teller Machine, ATM, in the country and state in particular, to the uncooperative attitude of banks and regulatory agencies, just as it announced steps to check the trend.

As Isa Bio begins a new journey as Sports minister, former Abia State governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, believes the erstwhile Transport minister should settle down to work regardless of his being ranked an outsider by some enthusiasts. Kalu who spoke in Lagos Wednesday advised the minister to put to use his experience as a former speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly and member of the Federal cabinet to move Nigerian sports to the next level.