New Lagos NIESV Exco outlines 10-point agenda of focus for its two-year tenure
By Kingsley Adegboye The just inaugurated executive council of the Lagos state branch of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, NIESV, has outlined a 10-point agenda as a major focus during its two-year tenure ending in May 2023. This is even as the exco has decried the infiltration of quacks into the practice […]
Labour battles shipping companies over outsourcing, poor wages
By Victor Ahiuma-Young Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, has decried increasing outsourcing, poor remuneration of workers and perceived upsurge in unfair labour practices by shipping companies operating in Nigeria, warning that it will no longer accept the practices. President-General, MWUN, Prince Adeyanju Adewale , who spoke in Lagos, at the 5th Quadrennial Delegates Conference of […]
Boost for digital transformation in Africa as Huawei pens deal with African Telecommunications Union
June 24th 2021, Nairobi-Kenya: The African Telecommunications Union (ATU) has today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with tech giant Huawei that will see African countries and organizations build capacity for ICT transformation. Under the agreement, Huawei willprovide trainingon skills development, including reskilling and upskilling for ATU members. The MoU will also see the two […]
Banks’ earning assets grow by 32% in 10yrs-Coronation report
By Babajide Komolafe The top six Nigerian banks recorded 32 per cent growth in their interest earnings assets in ten years from 2010 to 2020. The banks are Access Bank, FBN Holdings, Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank), Stanbic IBTC, United Bank For Africa (UBA) and Zenith Bank. Coronation Asset Management disclosed this in its report on […]
Savings is fun with CashBox, says Sydney Aigbogun
For most people, savings are difficult to achieve and come by. But for the CashBox team, saving is a culture that must be cultivated by all. With low earnings paid to workers in both public and private sectors of the economy, it is not surprising that many Nigerians as well as other African nationals find […]
Now, the president must stay
By Segun Ige What could have made President Muhammadu Buhari to reschedule his medical trip to London? Was it because of the touted massive pressures unleashed on him based on unconfirmed report of plan by unknown groups to “harass” him out of London? Mr President was, again, due to travel for another medical trip in […]
Power equilibrium: Russia, China and the US
By Patrick Dele Cole All three countries are growing incredibly richer and more powerful. Considerable success in the arms race, technological development such as internet, artificial intelligence, space. Going to Mars will soon be as common as man going to toilet. Environmental decision common to all who also share a certain skepticism that this does […]
Rivers communities abandon farms as cows graze on crops
DAYS after the killing of 26-year-old Nonye Nwa-Omoku in Egbeda, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State by suspected herdsmen, Gbo Kabaari Ogoni (Ogoni Elders’ Forum) has raised the alarm over more herders’ threats to that area of the state.
N84bn Alleged Misappropriation at NSITF: They stole the place dry, says Senate
THE Senate said, on Monday, that about N84 billion was mismanaged by the management of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, within four years.
Let’s build a new Nigeria – PFN President
…as PFN Lagos launches 200 million project By Olayinka Latona THE National President of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Bishop Francis Wale Oke has called on Christians to arise and fight for a new Nigeria on their knees. Asking Christians to brace up and perform their statutory responsibilities for a new era in Nigeria, Bishop […]
President Buhari and the burden of the dot nation
Enyinnaya Harcourt Abaribe, the Senate Minority Leader, is a politician of Ndigbo extraction who do not mind giving all he has in the defence of the Igbo. Last week he proudly donned a T-shirt branded THE DOT NATION, in apparent reaction to the derisive description of the South East by President Muhammadu Buhari as a dot in a circle on the Nigerian map.
