Business News Archives — Page 27 of 48

June 18, 2020 No Responses

Ecobank Supports Financial Inclusion Via Xpress Points

Ecobank Nigeria says its agency banking scheme, also known as Xpress Points, is building entrepreneurs and pushing financial inclusion to the large unbanked and under-banked population in Nigeria. In a statement, the lender explained that its Xpress Points enables eligible...

June 18, 2020 No Responses

African Association Of Cross Border Trade Seeks Collaboration With NSC

The African Association of Cross Border Trade has called for collaboration with the Nigerian Shippers’ Council in the area of trade facilitation amongst ECOWAS countries, expansion of and compilation of trade statistics on Cross Border Trade. ...

June 17, 2020 No Responses

Delta Seeks N8b Loan To Boost Agriculture

The Delta State Government has granted its approval for the state to access eight billion naira loan from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to develop agriculture in the state. The state’s Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, who made...

June 17, 2020 No Responses

Ondo Approves Recruitment Of 1000 Teachers, 432 Health Workers

Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has approved the recruitment of 1000 teachers to fill vacant positions in the state’s primary education sector. The State Head of Service (HoS), Mr Dare Aragbaiye, disclosed this on Tuesday in Akure, during a...

June 17, 2020 No Responses

Lagos To Meet Telecoms Firms On E-Learning Data Subscription

The Lagos State Government is to hold a meeting with telecommunications service providers on the issue of data subscription as part of measures to boost e-learning during the Coronavirus pandemic. Speaking on Tuesday during the Fifteenth Update on the Manageme...

June 16, 2020 No Responses

USAID Trains 7,519 Rice Farmers In Delta

Delta Chairman, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), Chief Silver Ejezie, on Monday said USAID has commenced training programme for rice farmers in the state. Ejezie, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigerian (NAN) in Asaba, disclosed that...

June 16, 2020 No Responses

Expert To FG: List NNPC On Stock Exchange

The federal government has been urged to prioritise the listing of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) as part of its Economic Sustainability Plan. Uche Uwaleke, Professor of Capital Market at the Nasarawa St...

June 15, 2020 No Responses

Lagos Distributes Maize, Sorghum To 15 Farm Settlements

The Lagos State Government has commenced the distribution of maize and sorghum to not less than 15 feed millers, farm settlements and other stakeholders in the livestock industry in the state. The State Acting Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms. Abis...

June 14, 2020 No Responses

FG Approves N13b For Pest Control In Sokoto, Katsina, Kano, Others

As part of measures to reduce the effects of COVID-19 on the nation’s food sector, the Federal Government has approved N13 billion as intervention fund for pest control in 12 northern states, The 12 states scheduled to benefit from the fund...

June 14, 2020 No Responses

Plateau To Revamp Jos Breweries

Plateau Government has allocated portions of land of the Brewery Agro Research Company (BARC) in Zallaki community of Bassa Local Government Area to different categories of qualified people, as part of efforts to revamp the Jos International Breweries (JIB). T...

June 13, 2020 No Responses

Imo Targets N5b Monthly IGR

The Imo State Government is to raise the state’s monthly Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to N5 billion in the next “few years””. Governor Hope Uzodinma, who made the promise at the maiden stakeholders’ forum held on Friday in Owerri to...

June 13, 2020 No Responses

FBN Insurance Records N37.63bn Premium In 2019

For the year 2019, FBN Insurance Limited recorded N37.63 billion Gross Premium Written (GPW), an increase of 45 per cent when compared to N25.98 billion achieved in 2018. The company in a statement explained that the audited annual report was...

June 12, 2020 No Responses

SON Certifies Foam, Lubricant Firms

The Standards Organisation Organisation (SON) has warned indigenous manufacturing companies to adhere strictly to standards upon which they were issued Mandatory Conformity Assessment Programme (MANCAP) certificates. Mr Olalekan Omoniyi, the Coordinator of SON...

June 11, 2020 No Responses

Heritage Bank-Dukia Gold To Boost Nigeria’s 200mn ounces Of Gold Potential Reserves

The Federal Government of Nigeria has commended Heritage Bank for being part of a valuable private sector collaboration with Dukia Gold & Precious Metals Refining Co. Ltd, saying such partnership stands to create new opportunities for Nigeria to grow its.....