Insurance business exists for the sustainability of other businesses and wealth creation. The insurance industry is the single largest global industry with premiums amounting to some 8% of the global gross domestic product and some 11% of global assets under its management.(Petherick 2011).From available research, it is said to have a long reach, connecting social, […]

By Charly Agwam The Director-General, National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Brig-Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim, has assured all the corps members in the country that the federal government is working to reduce unemployment in the country. Ibrahim made this known in Bauchi on Tuesday, during the swearing-in ceremony of the 2021 batch B stream 2 corps members […]

By Arogbonlo Israel The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Director-General, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim has commended corps member Ahmad Abubakar with code number FC/20B/1340 for donating a digital library to the Scheme as his personal Community Development Service (CDS) Project. Announcing this feat on its verified Facebook handle Tuesday, the Scheme shared photos of the […]

A chief magistrate court sitting in Iyaganku in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital on Tuesday ordered that four herdsmen be remanded for alleged kidnapping The herdsmen, Ibrahim Ahmadu, 20, Mohammadu Dariya, 28, Shehu Usman, 23, and Abubakar Siddi, 25, were accused of conspiracy, kidnapping, and demanding ransom. Chief Magistrate Olaide Hamzat did not take their […]

By Sola Oni The increasing complexity of picking which assets to own has put both securities dealers and investors under pressure. It has plunged the concept of sustainable investing into the beginning of a backlash. A definitive Survey of 750 institutional investors and 10,000 retail investors by PwC Global in 2017-2021 entitled : “ Asset […]

The Lagos State House of Assembly, says the Prohibition of Open Cattle Grazing Bill, when passed, will ensure harmonious relationships between herders and farmers in the state. The assembly made this known after the bill was read on the floor of the house for the second time, by the Acting Clerk, Mr Olalekan Onafeko, at […]

By  David Adonri Financial engineering at its peak has just taken off in the Nigerian capital market. The feat was achieved recently when Nigeria Exchange Limited (NGX) received the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval to trade in the following seven derivative contracts:1) Access Bank Plc Stock Futures.2) GTCO Plc Stock Futures.3) Zenith Bank Plc Stock […]

Hon. Justice Centus C. Nweze of the Supreme Court of Nigeria has eulogized the retiring Chief Judge of Enugu State, Hon. Justice Ngozi Priscilla Emehelu, for the outstanding achievements she recorded in transforming the State Judiciary.

By Lilian Olubi, CEO, EFG Hermes Nigeria On the 16th of August 2021, after almost 20 years of its conception, the long and highly anticipated Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) which seeks to provide legal, governance and fiscal framework to the Nigerian petroleum industry was finally signed into law by the President of the Federal Republic […]

The Nigeria Support Fund, NSSF, has renewed its call for support and financial donations to the fund with a view to ensuring that less privileged Nigerians have access to vaccines as well as contribute to the country’s attainment of herd immunity. 

By Modupe Ogunji and Josiah Oghagbon Ajebo Lawrence, husband of evicted Big Brother housemate, Tega, disclosed in a live video chat that he is not going to abandon his wife but rather give her a second chance if she apologises for her actions on the reality Tv show. Last week, while she was still on […]

The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has raised the alarm over what it described as ‘sufferings and deprivation’ meted out to their members in Abia, Imo, Ekiti, Ondo and Anambra States where doctors are being owed between four and 20 months.

The Aafin Compound of Ilogbo-Ekiti, on Tuesday, faulted to a statement credited to one Chief David Agbetuyi claiming that male children from his Igbolofin Family house in the community are also entitled to the kingship throne of the town.

Ahead of the full implementation of the recently signed Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) in 2022, civil society organisations have implored President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately appoint a permanent head for the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP).

The Duchess of Cornwall has expressed her readiness to extend her work on supporting female victims of violence by becoming a patron of Mirabel Centre, Nigeria’s first sexual assault referral centre.