Business

The Lagos State government has commended Ecobank Nigeria for renovating and furnishing the main building at the Agbala Pediatric Centre in Ikorodu being part of the bank’s corporate social responsibility effort directed at women and children. Speaking on behalf of the state commissioner for Health, the Chairman, Lagos State Health Service Commission, Dr Bayo Aderiye said the contribution by Ecobank …

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Ogun State Government has indicated that it would be approaching the capital market to raise funds to support the infrastructural development of the state. Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, who led a delegation from the state to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Thursday, said the improved financial position of the state and key policies implemented by his government …

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Five firms are bidding to acquire troubled telecom firm 9Mobile (formerly Etisalat), The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said yesterday. It was learnt that the five were picked as qualified among the 16 that Expressed Interestto Barclays bank, the financial advisers on the bid. NCC Executive Vice Chairman Prof. Umar Danbatta said yesterday the five successful bidders had been “allowed access …

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The Federal Government will rake in an additional N6 billion from the implementation of the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme before the end of the year, the Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service, Mr. Babatunde Fowler, has said. Fowler said that a total of N17 billion had been realised from the scheme in six months. The FIRS boss disclosed …

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In furtherance of its commitment to empower female entrepreneurs across Nigeria, Keystone Bank Limited through its Pink Network initiative, recently organized a capacity building workshop, tagged: ‘The Accelerate Business Seminar’ for female business owners. The Pink Network is an online platform to learn, get mentorship, share business ideas and interact. The one-day seminar which is the second edition was held …

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Skye Bank Plc., one of Nigeria’s leading retail commercial banks and six other companies have been commended and awarded platinum prize for committing huge resources in support of securing lives and property in Lagos State. The top donor awards to Skye Bank and six organisations were part of the activities at the 11th Town Hall Meeting on Security with the …

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Tayo Olanipekun Three former governors of Lagos State were honoured on Wednesday by governor Akinwunmi Ambode of the state with a recreational park named after them. The ex governors so honoured were Brigadier Mobolaji Johnson (Rtd.), who was the first governor and Military Administrator of the state; Alhaji Lateef Jakande, the state’s first civilian governor and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, …

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*Lists Measures To Tackle Kidnapping Tayo Olanipekun Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Wednesday  said the Federal Government would demolish the Jibowu and Costain bridges  in the state. Ambode, while addressing participants at the annual state Security Trust Fund Town Hall meeting at the State House in  Alausa, said the bridges would be demolished to give way for the …

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The on-going promotional campaign by Access Bank Plc tagged ‘Family Fortune’ Promo has produced the first winner of a family home. The family of Celestine Ikwuka Obinabor, currently a tenant and resident of Oka Afa in Ejigbo area of Lagos won one of the 3 four-bedroom terrace houses located in highbrow Lekki area of Lagos in the first Mega selection …

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A Federal high court sitting in Lagos South West Nigeria has granted leave to a Nigerian company Nadabo to serve court process on a British company Trafigura Beheer B V out of jurisdiction and five Nigerian companies alleged to have laundered N24billion. In a bid to recover N24billion alleged to have been laundered by a British company,Trafigura Beeher B V, …

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