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  • Heritage Bank offers concessionary funding support to SMEs

    Heritage Bank has offered funding support to small and medium enterprises at concessionary interest rate. Executive Director, Ivory Banking, Heritage Bank, Mary Akpobome, disclosed this during the unveiling of the Heritage Bank SME Clinic in Lagos. Responding...

    • Posted July 26, 2013
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  • Senate approves N4.9trn in 2013 budget amendment

    THE drama which had trailed the 2013 budget, following sharp disagreement between the Presidency and the National Assembly, was laid to rest Thursday, as the Senate, in a u-turn, approved a total of N4,987,220,425,601 in the amendment...

    • Posted July 26, 2013
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  • Unity Bank MD, two others risk jail term for contempt of court

    The Bauchi State High Court has ordered that form 48 and 49 be served at the Managing Director of Unity Bank and two others for their inability to obey court order and risk going to jail for...

    • Posted July 25, 2013
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  • “Oil theft impact may last over 20 years” – FG

    The country may not recover from the negative impact of crude oil theft and pipeline vandalism in the next 20 years or more, the Federal Government has said. It also said that the Trans Niger gas pipeline...

    • Posted July 25, 2013
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  • FG approves 40 firms for Q3 petrol importation

    The Federal Government has given approval to 40 companies to import 3.4 million tonnes of petrol in the third quarter of the year, according to a report by Reuters. However, it reported that the list of fuel suppliers...

    • Posted July 25, 2013
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  • Samsung hits Nigeria market with Galaxy Mega

    Through relentless innovation and discovery, digital media and digital convergence technologies makers, Samsung Electronics West Africa,  has introduced the world’s largest smartphone, Samsung Galaxy Mega, to the Nigerian market. Delivering a mobile experience that is larger than...

    • Posted July 25, 2013
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  • Honeywell offers N1.3b dividend, plans food complex

    Honeywell Flour Mills, on Tuesday presented its audited full result for the year ended March 31, 2013, following which its board recommended a dividend of 16 kobo per unit. The proposed dividend, amounting to N1.3 billion is...

    • Posted July 25, 2013
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  • 130m Nigerians generate own electricity – NOI Polls

    About 81 per cent or 130 million Nigerians, out of the about 160 million Nigerians, generated their own electricity through alternative sources to compensate for irregular power supply, according to the result of a series of Power...

    • Posted July 25, 2013
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  • Ikpoki named first Nigerian MTN CEO

    Michael Ikpoki, currently the CEO of MTN Ghana has been named as the new Chief Executive Officer of MTN Nigeria. Ikpoki replaces Brett Goschen, who took on the role of MTN Group Chief Financial Officer and Executive...

    • Posted July 24, 2013
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  • Dana Air slashes fares to N7,200

    Dana Air has reduced its fares to N7200 on all its destinations across Nigeria, the airline said in a statement on Monday. The airline said only passengers who book and pay online will benefit from the six...

    • Posted July 24, 2013
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  • Budget amendment scales second reading at Senate

    The controversy surrounding the amendment of the 2013 budget might have been laid to rest as the Senate read the bill for that purpose for the second time on Tuesday, acceding to the proposals of the executive....

    • Posted July 24, 2013
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  • CBN directs banks to keep 50% of public sector deposit as cash

    The Monetary Policy Committee,MPC, of the Central Bank of Nigeria,CBN, on Tuesday, voted unanimously to raise the Cash Reserve Ratio,CRR, for government deposits from 12 to 50 percent. The CRR which is the percentage of deposits banks...

    • Posted July 24, 2013
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  • Nigeria loses 11.75m barrels of crude in 4 years

    Nigeria lost about 11.75 million barrels of oil from 2010 to 2012, due to crude oil theft, the Group Executive Director, Refining and Petrochemicals, Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC, Mr. Anthony Ogbuigwe, said. Ogbuigwe disclosed this at...

    • Posted July 24, 2013
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  • Indigenous firms partner Eko DISCO on metres

    To ensure that electricity consumers are adequately metered in the country, two indigenous firms, MOMAS System Nigeria Ltd, and MOJEC International, have thrown their weight behind the Credited Advance Payment Implementation, CAPMI Scheme, in collaboration with the...

    • Posted July 24, 2013
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