The Director General at BMTC Group, Hon. Saheed Ibile has expressed dismay at the recent media trial of the suspects of the recent communal clash in Ile- Ife, noting the trial allegedly orchestrated by the Nigeria Police Force is the height of affront and assault to the collective integrity and value of the Yoruba people. Similarly, he said that, as …

As a sign of absolute confidence in the Management of the technology-driven new bank; SunTrust Bank, its customers increased deposits in the bank by a whopping 432 per cent, making it possible for the bank to declare an impressive profit before tax of N343 million, an increase of 160.3 per cent over the N131.9million reported in 2015. Meanwhile its Income …

Folake sokoya Lagos State Police Command recently arrested three suspected members of a kidnap gang in connection with series of abductions in Epe area of the state. A female Police Sergeant attached to Ketu Division, identified as Bola, was among the abducted at Omu-Ijebu, a border town between Lagos and Ogun states, while a lawyer and owner of a farmland …

From left; Oscar Onyema, Chief Executive Officer, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE); Tosin Runsewe, Chief Client Officer, AXA Mansard Plc; Wilm Langenbach, Chief Executive Officer AXA EMEALATAM; Sola Adeeyo, Chairman AXA Mansard Plc Board of Directors and Yetunde Ilori, Chief Executive Officer AXA Mansard Plc at the Closing Gong Ceremony at the Exchange on Monday. Advertisement

folake sokoya Chukwu – Emeka Egbemude, one of the four suspects arrested by the operatives of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command for tricking expensive phone sellers to desolate locations and robbing them afterward, has disclosed that his father warned him not to use his house as a base for internet crime. Egbemude, 22, a 200 level …

Bismarck Rewane, chief executive officer (CEO) of Financial Derivatives, says the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)  can intervene in the foreign exchange market, but must resist price fixing. He said the bank should also allow the naira depreciate to “maybe 340, maybe 350″ to reflect a real effective exchange rate. Speaking to Channels Television on Monday, Rewane said the CBN …

Godwin Ugar, an environmental scientist has warned that people should desist from eating goat meat roasted with tyres because the carcinogenic components it contains is capable of causing cancer. Ugar who also doubles as the Programme Manager, Natural Resource Management and Policy, CUSO International gave the warning at the weekend in Calabar during a workshop for stakeholders on youth empowerment. …

The Chief Executive, Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers Limited, Eric Fajemisin, said employers remain the pivot, upon which the sustainability of the pension scheme rests, and as such, it is imperative to engage them on their key roles and they impact the scheme. Speaking at its first 2017 edition of Employers’ Forum in Edo State, Fajemisin noted that, ‘employers must show …

Contrary to stakeholders and investors expectations, that Diamond Bank will be among the earliest banks to make their account books public in the year, the bank’s management has sought for an extension of time for their results to be submitted to the Nigerian Stock Exchange NSE for verification. Banks in the domestic economy has December 31st as their financial year …

If the federal and state governments continue to rely heavily on debt instruments for the financing of the country’s infrastructure needs, then, Nigeria’s total debt burden will be hitting the N19tn mark by the end of this year. Based on figures obtained from the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, the country’s total debt stock is expected to rise by …