…..unveils scheme for smartphone purchas ACCESS Bank Plc has unveiled a cash incentive campaign tagged “DiamondXtra Independence Splash” to reward over 30 DiamondXtra customers daily with cash prizes. The campaign, which started on October 2, 2019 will run to October 31, 2019 and will reward over 600 customers during the campaign period. The reward campaign is in commemoration of Nigeria’s ... Read More »

A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to Omoyele Sowore and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare. Justice Chioma Ojukwu had fixed 4th of October for the hearing of the matter. She granted bail to Sowore in the sum of N100m with two sureties in like sum. The sureties who must be resident in Abuja must also have landed assets ... Read More »

Music superstar David Adeleke popularly known as Davido has declared full support for Omoshola’s ambition to win the Big Brother Naija 2019 show. In a tweet on Friday morning, he revealed that he had three housemates who were his close friends in the 2019 Big brother House. The trio, according to him, are Kim Oprah, Tacha and Omashola. He explained ... Read More »

N120m To Be Given Out During Promo Season Fidelity Bank Plc, top Nigerian lender on Thursday announced the introduction of a new savings campaign in Lagos, as part of concerted efforts to promote the culture of savings amongst Nigerians. The Savings campaign which will ride primarily on digital technologies is one of the many initiatives of the bank aimed at ... Read More »

The Ogun State House of Assembly on Thursday accused the immediate-past Governor of the State, Ibikunle Amosun, of “short-changing” local governments in the distribution of federal allocation during his administration. The Assembly, in its report of the House Committee on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, said it had found that Amosun’s government paid only N12m to the local governments and ... Read More »

Junior Achievement Nigeria’s (JAN) annual flagship event, National Company of the Year Competition (NCOY) will be taking place Thursday, 3rd October 2019. With the theme “Activating Disruptors”, this annual event brings the JA Company Program winners of our Regional Competitions together to compete for the National Company of the Year Award sponsored by First Bank of Nigeria Limited. The winners ... Read More »

The captain of the Nigeria Dream Team to the 2008 Olympic, which won silver medal, died last Wednesday after collapsing at his apartment gym in Austin, Texas. The 31-year-old scored 79 goals in 11 professional seasons in Turkey. He was playing for the Austin Bold of the USL and the team said Thursday that he died Wednesday night. Police said ... Read More »

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila said on Thursday that Nigeria remain the only country in the world where electricity consumers are made to pay bills through estimated billing, a situation he described as shameful. The Speaker said the process of estimated billing being used by electricity distribution companies in the country was the biggest fraud ever ... Read More »

economic advisory council economic advisory advisory council nigeria soludo I Was Told To Reject President Buhari’s Appointment – Soludo A former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Professor Charles Soludo, has revealed that he was warned against accepting President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointment into the Economic Advisory Council (EAC). Speaking on Tuesday at an annual programme organised by the ... Read More »

MD/CEO, Heritage Bank, Mr Ifie Sekibo , has stressed the need for the federal government to work towards creating a credible and strong identity management towards expanding access to credit in the country. Sekibo noting that while the Bank Verification Number (BVN) has been able to create a form of identification in the country, it has not been able to ... Read More »