The Financial Control (FinCon) and Enterprise Business Services Unit of Access Bank Plc yesterday hosted students from the Correctional Centre for Senior Boys, Isheri Lagos; Special Correction Centre for Boys, Oregun and Correctional Centre for junior Boys, Yaba, in Lagos. The programme is part of the bank’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) plan to the overall…
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has once again, mopped up substandard lubricants in different parts of the country. It said the action became necessary after it discovered through its surveillance activities and extensive survey of the market that most lubricants in the market failed to meet quality parameters of the Nigerian Industrial Standard (NIS).…
The Nigeria Port Authority (NPA) has taken steps to reduce the congestion at the Apapa and Tin Can Island ports. In a statement yesterday, it said henceforth, there will be an increase in rent-free period for cargoes housed in the terminals. It added that from the current period of three free days before commencement of…
Astudy researched by the World Bank has found that Nigerians was the top receiver of cash from the United Kingdom in 2017. Nigeria was ranked the largest remittance recipient in sub-Saharan Africa and the sixth largest amongst lower-middle-income countries. According to the report, Nigerians living in the UK sent £3.27 million back home in 2017.…
A net 53 percent of investors surveyed, who manage $694 billion in assets, said they expect global growth to weaken over the next 12 months, according to the poll, which took place from Dec. 7 to Dec. 13. The U.S. dollar replaced technology stocks known as FAANGs in the United States – Facebook, Apple, Amazon,…
The Nigerian Association of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers (NALPGAM) has urged Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to stop approving locations of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) plants in fuel stations. Mr Nosakhare Ogieva-Okunbor, President of NALPGAM, told newsmen on Monday in Lagos that installing `ad-on skid gas plant’ in fuel stations was dangerous Ogieva-Okunbor urged DPR…