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Tier-1 lender, Access Bank kick-started the year on a solid note after recording an 86 percent surge in its profit after tax (PAT) in Q1 2019 ended 31st March 2019, making it the first deposit money bank on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) to release its first-quarter report for the year.
The President of the National Council of The Nigerian Stock Exchange, Otunba Abimbola Ogunbanjo ( 1st right) accompanied by Alhaji Aliko Dangote ( 2nd right), GCON, President, Dangote Group and former President NSE and Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede ( 2nd left), CON, Ex-Officio, NSE recently paid a condolence visit to the family of late Professor Herbert Onye Orji, erstwhile National Council member of NSE and they were received by Dr. (Mrs.) Nnenna Orji, Wife; Mrs. Leslie Okoye, Daughter; and Christian, sister.
NDIC Board Retreat in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Maitama, Abuja, on Tuesday dismissed corruption charges involving alleged mismanagement of about N115m public fund preferred against the suspended Director General of the Security and Exchange Commission, Mounir Gwarzo; and a commissioner of the commission, Zakwanu Garuba.
The Nigeria Immigration Service has denied allegation of shortage of passport booklets in the country.
Less than two months to the end the 5th Bayelsa state House of Assembly, one of the two remaining members of the opposition parties, Honourable Gabriel Ogbara has defected from his party, the African Democratic Congress (ADC), to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The Bayelsa state Governorship candidate of the Masses Movement of Nigeria (MMN), Mr. Jones Okiah says if elected as Governor come November 2019 that the hinterlands of the state would be linked with roads.
It was rain of accolades for the outgoing General Manager and Chief Compliance Officer of Heritage Bank Plc, Mr. Adewumi Adeniyi, yesterday as management colleagues praised him for his exceptional contribution to the growth of the sector after an unbroken stint of 37 years of working in the banking industry.
The Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday rejected the motion on notice seeking to stop Access Bank Plc from taking over a property owned by the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Chief Don Etiebet, known as Etiebet’s Place in Ikeja, Lagos.
The consumer price index (CPI) which measures inflation dropped to 11.25 per cent (year-on-year) in March compared to 11.31 per cent in February, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).