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July 4, 2019 No Responses

SEC Reduces Cost, Timelines For Transmission of Shares

Determined to reduce the quantum of unclaimed dividends in the Nigerian Capital Market and encourage beneficiaries of deceased investors to step up efforts to claim such dividends the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has further reduced the time, processes and...

July 4, 2019 No Responses

SAHCO Bags Aviation Handling Award

The Skyway Aviation Handling Company PLC (SAHCO) has been awarded the ‘Best Ground Handling Company in West Africa’. The award was given at the 5th edition of the Balafon Travel Awards held at La Palm Royal Beach Hotel, Accra, Ghana....

July 3, 2019 No Responses

NSE Suspends Conoil, Ten Others

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Tuesday suspended trading in the shares of 11 companies over delayed filing of accounts. According to NSE Head, Listings Regulation Department, Godstime Iwenekhai, the companies are: Conoil, FTN Cocoa Processors, Goldlink I...

July 3, 2019 No Responses

New BMW X6 Coupe Debuts

BMW on Tuesday announced new 2020 X6 Sports Activity Coupe. More than ten years ago, BMW combined the attributes of the Sports Activity Vehicle with the more aggressive DNA of a Coupe to create the X6 and the new Sports...

July 3, 2019 No Responses

INEC To Resume Distribution Of Uncollected PVCs

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will resume distribution of uncollected Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in Bayelsa and Kogi, ahead of the states’ Nov. 16 governorship elections. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information a...

July 3, 2019 No Responses

NADDC, FRSC To Declare Open NAJA Training July 26

All is now set for the 2019 Nigerian Auto Journalists Association (NAJA) training workshop scheduled to hold on Friday, July 26, at the Golden Tulip Hotel, along Murtala Muhammed International Airport road, Lagos. Expected as special guests during the training...

July 3, 2019 No Responses

NAHCO Photo News

L – R shows Mr. Jude Chiemeka, Divisional Head, Trading Business, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE); Mr. Olumide Bolumole, Divisional Head, Listing Business, NSE; Mrs. Olatokunbo Fagbem Group Managing Director/CEO, NAHCO Plc; Mr. Olumuyiwa Olumekun, Executiv...

July 2, 2019 No Responses

Minimum Wage: Labour Begins Mobilisation Of Members

Worried by alleged government’s efforts to derail the implementation of a new National Minimum Wage, organized labour has commenced mobilization of its members nationwide to prepare them for “the next line of action”. Operating under the aegis of the Tra...

July 2, 2019 No Responses

IITA Youth Agripreneur Program Wins Award

The youth program of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has won the 2019 International Innovation Award for sustainable food and Agriculture. The award is in recognition of IITA’s commitment to improving both agribusiness opportunitie...

July 2, 2019 No Responses

Samsung Secures Order For Special-Purpose Vessel

South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has received an order for the construction of one special-purpose ship for an undisclosed European shipowner. As informed, the order is worth KRW 134.8 billion (around USD 1.2 billion). Signed on June 28,...

July 1, 2019 No Responses

ECOWAS Adopts ECO As Name Of Single Currency

The leadership of Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) heads of State and Government at the weekend in Abuja, Nigeria adopted ECO as the name of the single currency to be issued in January 2020. The leaders at their...

July 1, 2019 No Responses

SEC To Skye Bank Investors: Claim Your Dividends

The Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, has again re iterated it earlier directives to shareholders of defunct Skye bank to claim their dividend payment. This the SEC said is part of its investor protection programme and as well as ensure...

July 1, 2019 No Responses

CFA Institute To Partner Ecobank On Training, Research

The Chief Executive and President Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute, Paul Smith has called for a closer collaboration with Ecobank Nigeria along areas of mutual interest in the nation’s financial industry. Smith who was speaking during a cour...

June 30, 2019 No Responses

Buhari Steps Down As ECOWAS Chairman, Seeks Common Security Strategy In W/Africa

Insecurity challenges in the West African subregion can only be effectively tackled if a common strategy is adopted by member states, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. Meanwhile, the Economic Community Of West African States ( ECOWAS) heads of s...