Countdown begins for the talk of the town Society Reporters Excellence Leadership Award (SRELA) is billed to take place as a presentation in the month of August 2021 and packaged by Society Reporters, a reputable news platform that serves as the watchdog of society; bringing to the fore pertinent issues that are otherwise overlooked for the past ten years of existence. The ... Read More »

The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive of Zenith Bank, Mr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu, has called for increased impact investing in Africa for the continent to attain its full potential. He made the call during his keynote address at the Africa Investment Risk & Compliance Summit 2021 organised by the Emerging Business Intelligence & Innovation (EBII) Group which held at the prestigious University ... Read More »

  The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, on Friday met for several hours with operatives of the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation in Abuja over the arrest warrant issued on Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari. This was sequel to the revelations made by serial fraudster, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, alias Hushpuppi, who recently pleaded guilty in the United States. ... Read More »

 Ecobank Nigeria has assured customers that the bank has put in place every arrangement for the implementation of the foreign exchange (fx) policy issued by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The bank in an email to its customers indicated that all its branches had been put on notice to ensure smooth FX sales to eligible Ecobank customers and non-customers. According ... Read More »

Nigeria’s retail lender, Unity Bank Plc has declared half-year result posting gross earnings of 23.6 billion Naira, which is a 3% increase compared with the corresponding period of 2020. A review of the unaudited half year result (H1’2021) released to the Nigerian Stock Exchange, the Agric-focused lender showed notable improvement across key financial matrices. The Bank grew bottom-line by 34% as ... Read More »

Her son, Olatunji, confirmed the death of her mother to our correspondent. According to him, his mother died on Friday night around 10pm. “She passed last night around 10pm. She had malaria and typhoid,” Olatunji  said. Racheal was said to have  shot some scenes in a movie at Mowe, Ogun state earlier this week. Oniga featured in scores of Nollywood ... Read More »

*Friday 20th – Friday 27th August, 2021* *Schedule of Events* *(1)* Friday 20th August, 2021 *Anniversary Jumu’at Service at Ikeja LG Secretariat Mosque by 1pm* *(2)* Sunday 22nd August, 2021 *Anniversary Church Service at Archbishop Vining Memorial Church Cathedral, Opposite Police College, GRA Ikeja by 10am* *(3)* Monday 23rd August, 2021 *Members’ Interactive Session with the President, Trustees, Patrons & ... Read More »

The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has ordered an “internal review of the allegations” against a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, by a United States cour The police made this known in a statement on Thursday, signed by the Force Public Relations Officer, CP Frank Mba. Our correspondent had earlier reported that the United State District Court for the ... Read More »

Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc (Transcorp) has released its unaudited results for the half–year ended June 2021, recording significant improvement across its major income lines.  The Conglomerate with strategic investments in the Power, Hospitality, and Energy sectors, recorded a profit after tax of N6.5bn, rising by 713% up from N0.8bn recorded in June of the previous year. Other key highlights of the result include the following: Revenue rose by ... Read More »

  Johnson onifade Abeokuta Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun state has charged the Newly innaugurated 20 Local government chairmen in Ogun state not to rely on the monthly Federal Allocation alone but create New idea aimed at creating internally generated avenue to add value to their lofty programme aimed at bringing more socio-economic development of thier varios local government areas. ... Read More »