FirstBank Leverages Technology For Customers’ Virtual Accounts Opening

FirstBank Leverages Technology For Customers’ Virtual Accounts Opening

FirstBank of Nigeria Limited has put in place measures to enable customers open accounts through their mobile phones, without visiting its branches nationwide. Mr Chuma Ezirim, FirstBank Group Executive, e-Business & Retail Products, said in a statement on Friday that...
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Taiwan Decriminalises Adultery

Taiwan Decriminalises Adultery

Taiwan’s top court on Friday nullified a decade-old criminal adultery law under which having extra marital affairs could result in jail term. The court revoked Article 239 of Taiwan’s Criminal Code, which stipulated that a“ married person who commits adu...
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Bua Cement, Flour Mills Top Gainers’ Table As Market Capitalisation Expand Growth By N53b

Bua Cement, Flour Mills Top Gainers’ Table As Market Capitalisation Expand Growth By N53b

The key performance indicators of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) closed the last trading day of May with 0.40 per cent growth. Specifically, the market capitalisation on Friday inched higher by N53 billion or 0.40 per cent to close at...
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Nissan To Unveil 12 New Models In 18 Months

Nissan To Unveil 12 New Models In 18 Months

Japanese carmaker,  Nissan Motor is to focus on cost-rationalisation and market prioritisation for achieving sustainable growth, financial stability and profitability.Meanwhile, with an aim to introduce 12 new models in the next 18 months, the company wants ...
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Lufthansa, German Govt Seal $9.8b Bailout Deal

Lufthansa, German Govt Seal $9.8b Bailout Deal

The German government and Lufthansa have agreed on a much-anticipated bailout deal to help the airline cope with losses from the coronavirus pandemic.  According to agency reports such as dpa/nan, the deal, thought to be worth up to nine billion...
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ILO Issues Guidance For Safe Return To Work During COVID-19

ILO Issues Guidance For Safe Return To Work During COVID-19

Two guidance documents for creating safe and effective return-to-work conditions during the COVID-19  pandemic have been issued by the International Labour Organization (ILO).The Guidance Note  says that return to work policies need to be informed by a h...
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Ecobank Gets Most Innovative Bank In Africa Award

Ecobank Gets Most Innovative Bank In Africa Award

Global Finance has named Ecobank as the most innovative bank in Africa. The announcement was made at the eighth Global Finance annual awards, the Innovators 2020, honoring entities that regularly identify new paths and design new tools in finance.   Cat...
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Relocate Dry Dock To Niger Delta, UNDEDSS, PANDEF Urge FG

Relocate Dry Dock To Niger Delta, UNDEDSS, PANDEF Urge FG

The Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and the United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy (UNDEDSS) have urged the Federal Government to relocate the Mega Dry Dock from Lagos waters to the Niger Delta region.The two organisations stated this at a...
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NRC Working Out Guidelines To Contain Covid-19 Spread

NRC Working Out Guidelines To Contain Covid-19 Spread

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC)  is working  out new guidelines of operations  to help to contain the spread of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19 ). The Director  of Operations of NRC, Mr Niyi Alli,  made the disclosure  in an interview with...
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Vespa Wins EU Case Against Chinese Copycat Design

Vespa Wins EU Case Against Chinese Copycat Design

Piaggio, the Italian company that makes the world-famous Vespa scooter, said Monday that it had won a legal case against a Chinese copycat design. “A design registered by a Chinese party has been declared invalid by the invalidity division of...
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Stephanie Linus Unveils “Hygiene First” Campaign

Stephanie Linus Unveils “Hygiene First” Campaign

    By citybusinessnews@yahoo.com As people and nations around the world grapple with the new reality of Coeronavirus Disease (COVID 19), Stephanie Linus is inspiring a long-term and purposeful lifestyle change among Nigerians to stimulate personal and commu...
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Poultry Farmers Seek Review Of Security At Checkpoints

Poultry Farmers Seek Review Of Security At Checkpoints

The Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) has appealed to the Federal and State Governments to urgently reconstitute security operatives manning various checkpoints in the country. This, they said, would ensure smooth and effective implementation of directives ...
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Covid-19: Niger Gets $25,000 Grant From South Korea

Covid-19: Niger Gets $25,000 Grant From South Korea

The South Korean Government through the United Nations Habitat Programme (UN Habitat), has given grant of twenty-five thousand dollars (USD $25,000) to support Niger Government in preventing the spread of Coronavirus in the state. This is contained in a statem...
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Buhari Mourns Karibi-Whyte

Buhari Mourns Karibi-Whyte

President Muhammadu Buhari has sent his condolences to the government and people of Rivers over the passing of legal icon, author and law professor, Justice Adolphus Karibi-Whyte. The President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, conve...
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