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Photo Caption: From Left: Dr Remi Oni, Executive Director, Corporate Banking, First Bank Limited; Oscar Onyema, Chief Executive Officer, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE); Urum Kalu Eke, Group Managing Director, FBN Holdings; Tijjani Borodo, Company Secretary, FBN Holdings and Kayode Akinkugbe, MD, FBN Merchant Bank at the FBN’s Facts Behind the Figures Presentation at the Exchange on Thursday.    

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Andrew Oke Omoyeni is an aspiring footballer who wants to get to the peak of his career. In this interview, he told DAYO EMMANUEL what matters to him as a footballer. He also talked about the place of God in a footballer’s life. The 18 year old talented footballer who trains with a grassroots club in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital …

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The Lagos State Government has secured a whopping sum of $100 million from a French financial institution, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) to implement its strategic integrated urban development projects tagged Eko Urban Project (EKO-UP). Consistent with its urban renewal programmes specifically designed to provide strategic infrastructure projects and unlock traffic congestion in the metropolis, the state government has secured …

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The Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria says the revival of the cassava bread initiative is capable of injecting about N255 billion into the country’s economy every year. Mr Joseph Ubah, the Publicity Secretary of the association, said this on Thursday in an interview in Abuja. He said that initiative, which involved the use of composite flour containing …

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Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, has said that right regulatory policies by the Central Bank of Nigeria can bring down high interest rate in the country to five per cent from the current charges of 25- 30 perccent by Deposit Money Banks, DMBs. Addressing the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions headed by Senator Rafiu Ibrahim, MAN …

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Consumers of fresh tomatoes have once again switched over to tomato pastes as tomato ebola makes a comeback. Exactly same period last year, consumers and farmers of fresh tomatoes across the country were hit by severe scarcity due to same reason. Daily Sun learnt that a big basket of tomatoes, which previously cost N7,000 and N10,000 in Mile 12 Market …

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The Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, has approved the signing of a multilateral convention on tax related treaties that will end profit shifting and tax evasion by multinationals. This approval was part of the government’s plan to push up its tax base and improve revenue generation. Government had in 2016 said it lost about …

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The Senate has urged the Federal Government to consider the report of the National Conference held in 2014. Specifically, the Senate said it would go through the recommendations made by the confab to determine the solutions to the current agitations across the country. Members of the Senate made the resolution at a plenary on Wednesday after debating a motion sponsored …

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Former President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, has dismissed the federal system of government being practised in Nigeria as not serving the people. The former Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, in a statement titled, ‘Deprivation and Agitation: A Reflection on Nigeria’s Late 2017 Budget,’ which was sent to The PUNCH on Wednesday, decried the poor state of …

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The Presidency, on Wednesday, described as outrageous and travesty of justice the acquittal of Senate President Bukola Saraki by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, which upheld the no-case submission of the Senate President. The Special Assistant to the President on Prosecution, Mr. Okoi Obono-Obla, wondered why the CCT dismissed the weight of “overwhelming evidence” against Saraki, who was tried for …

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