In its continuous bid to expose the citizenry to financial literacy at very early age in life, Heritage Bank Plc, Nigeria’s Most Innovative Banking Services Provider, joined the world in celebrating the World Savings’ Day with the theme: Our Future Starts with Savings. The World Savings Day, stresses the ingenuity of savings to economic development, which is in line with …

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TEDxGbagada has concluded plans to hold the third edition of its conference on November 11, 2017 at The Zone Centre, Gbagada Lagos. This year’s event which is themed ‘Bold Ideas’ will bring together Nigeria’s best scientists, entrepreneurs, professionals, innovators and reformers to share ideas that will spark deep discussions and change our society. TEDxGbagada began in 2015 with the theme …

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Federal Government should ensure that a large part of the of the N8.6 trillion budget for 2017 targets infrastructure, Chief Executive Officer, BudgiT, a civic organization promoting transparency in governance,  Seun Onigbinde, has said. Speaking yesterday during the maiden edition of the ‘Meet-The-Executive’ organized by the Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria (FICAN) in Lagos, Lagos, he said conversations of budget should …

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Olabode Adaramola Father  of a 16-year-old female student of Government Day Secondary School (GDSS), Tunga Minna (Gidan-kwano), impregnated by her Vice Principal, Malam Mohammed Mohammed, has  cried out for justice to secure the future of his daughter who is  said to have neen abandoned by the man who impregnated her. The randy Vice Principal, Malam Mohammed Mohammed had  in March …

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 Delivered by:   His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari President, Federal Republic of Nigeria At the Joint Session of the National Assembly, Abuja Tuesday, 7TH of November 2017 PROTOCOLS I am here to present 2018 Budget Proposals. Before presenting the Budget, let me thank all of you Distinguished and Honourable Members of the National Assembly, and indeed all Nigerians, for your …

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National Insurance Commission (NAICOM), has announced a major shakeup in its top management cadre as well as other senior positions. In the reorganization, seven full directors and 23 assistant directors were affected. This development according to Head of Corporate Communications, ‘Razaq ‘Salam was in furtherance of its efforts to reposition the Commission for better service delivery. “Some of those affected …

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President Muhammadu Buhari has proposed N8.6trn for the 2018 financial year. Buhari made this known at the Joint Session of the National Assembly on Tuesday in Abuja, during the presentation of the 2018 Budget Proposal. Advertisement The President assured that the 2018 budget would be a consolidation of the earlier ones, noting that 2018 is expected to be a year …

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The Senate on Tuesday called for the abolition of Excess Crude Account. The Upper Chamber also called on the executive to pay the amount above the oil benchmark into the Federation Account in compliance with the constitution. It further requested the executive to act in conformity with Sections 80 (1-4) and 162(1-3) of the 1999 Constitution (Amended) in its revenue …

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The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission on Monday released the newly-approved eligible customers’ law and outlined the terms that would guide the direct purchase of electricity by end-users from power generation companies. In May this year, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, declared that eligible power consumers would be free to purchase electricity directly from the Gencos. By …

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The Lagos State Commissioner for Environment, Dr. Babatunde Adejare, has expressed the resolve of the State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, to create 60,000 direct and indirect jobs through the Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI). Adejare, who disclosed this in Lagos on Monday at the on-boarding of the ward resident contractors to oversee the work of the 27,500 community sanitation workers, said …

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