GTBank gets N34bn IFC loan for onward lending to critical sectors
Guaranty Trust Bank Plc has secured a $175 million (about N34 billion) loan from the IFC to expand its lending to sectors that drive economic growth and job creation in Nigeria. This is even as the bank’s Training Academy for pre-entry level staff has been accredited by the Governing Council of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN).
Group warns against campaign of calumny
UGHELLI— Director General of the Idisi Campaign Organization, Mr. Sylvanus Manureh, has condemned an alleged campaign of calumny against its principal and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP House of Representatives candidate for Ethiope federal constituency, Chief Lovette Idisi.
MCFR condemns political violence in Abia
A group, Movement for Credible and Free Elections, MCFR, has condemned recent violent clashes among political parties and their supporters in Ikwuano and Obingwa Local Government areas in Abia State.
SANITATION: Lagos heads to Appeal Court
LAGOS—Lagos State Government has concluded plans to appeal the judgment of the Federal High Court which cancelled restriction of movement during the monthly sanitation exercise in the state.This came 24 hours after a Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos State, presided over by Justice Mohammed Idris, nullified the restriction of movement during the monthly sanitation exercise in the state.
How we are digitizing Almajiri schools as antidote to poverty – NOTAP
Almajiri in the Islamic tradition is actually a high caliber word, it arose from Alima Jirud, people who are moving from one part of the world to the other, looking for Islamic or Arabic knowledge. In Nigeria, it has dropped to the lowest level, that it has now become a stigma. Today, no discerning and educated person wants his child to become one, particularly, the elite class, having been tagged the begging group in the society.
Fayose threatens to arrest Fayemi’s Dep Gov, SSG, others
By Gbenga Ariyibi Ado-Ekiti—The Ayo Fayose-led government in Ekiti State, yesterday, threatened ex-Governor Kayode Fayemi’s appointees, including the former deputy governor, Prof. Modupe Adelabu and former Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Ganiyu Owolabi with arrest over N109 million unpaid monetised vehicles debt. The government, in a release signed by the Chief Press Secretary to […]
