By Cynthia Alo The Chapel Hill Denham’s Nigerian Infrastructure Debt Fund (NIDF) has reached financial close for N3 billion Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) project at the Lagos State University (LASU). The project is being implemented by Advent Integrated Services Limited (Advent) under a long-term concession granted by the Lagos State Government. READ ALSO:FG, Stakeholders rue […]

Mercy Johnson Okojie has disclosed that she will not be withdrawing her daughter from Chrisland School in the aftermath of the crisis that greeted her daughter’s issues with a teacher.

By Yinka Kolawole Dangote Industries Ltd is set to add verve to the 2021 Lagos Trade Fair which begins this week with five companies from the group participating in the fair.   The companies participating in the fair are Dangote Cement, Dangote Sugar, NASCON, Dangote Oil Refinery and Dangote Fertiliser.   READ ALSO:Anambra 2021: Conduct free, fair election, […]

•Oppose benchmarking parallel market rates By Elizabeth Adegbesan The members of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s, CBN,   Monetary Policy Committee, MPC, have called on the apex bank to carry out a comprehensive review of the foreign exchange market operations in the country to determine the fundamental drivers, and relative sizes of the segments of the market. […]

•As their deposit drops 31% By Babajide Komolafe The scarcity of funds (liquidity) in the interbank money market has compelled banks to rely more on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for short term liquidity needs. Financial Vanguard  findings show that banks borrowed N901 billion from the CBN last week, representing a 74 per cent increase […]

By Chioma Onuegbu THE Chief Medical Director at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, UUTH, Akwa Ibom state, Prof. Ememabasi Bassey, has said that the COVID-19 pandemic impacted positively on Nigeria’s healthcare delivery system. Bassey who spoke while interacting with newsmen Monday in Uyo explained that the lockdown which prevented highly placed and prominent individuals […]

•African e-commerce to reach $45bn by 2025 – Investors •Reflects capacity of Nigerian tech entrepreneurs – NACCIMA •Opportunities in ICT immense, low investment risk – Ex-LCCI boss By Yinka Kolawole In a seeming vote of confidence in the entrepreneurial capacity of Nigerians, foreign investors and a few local ones have staked $992 million (about N412 billion) as […]

By Peter Duru, Makurdi Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state Monday said the collapse of Nigeria’s economy and the worsening insecurity in the country were clear indications that the worst military regime Nigeria ever had was better than the present All Progressives Congress, APC, led Federal Government. The Governor who spoke to newsmen in Makurdi […]

Dr Nkem Okeke, Anambra Deputy Governor, said that security challenges facing Anambra residents would be tackled as a core need for peaceful co-existence of the all persons in Anambra. Okeke said that the All Progressive Congress, APC, governorship candidate, Sen. Andy Uba, has reassured him that security of lives and properties of Anambra people would […]