Adeyinka Adedipe First Bank Basketball Club will lead seven other teams to the first Dr D.K Olukoya Girls Basketball Competition, which holds from June 28 to July 4 at the sports hall of the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos. Other teams confirmed for the tournament are hosts -MFM of Lagos, Delta Force of Asaba, IG Queens…
Polaris Bank has announced the launch of a new reward: ‘Refer & Win’ exercise in which existing and new users of the Bank’s digital banking platform, Vulture, stand a chance to win up to N1,300 instant cash reward each time they refer someone who opens an account and enrolls on the newly-launched innovative digital solution. To…
Qatar Airways says it has increased its service to Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub, to two daily flights starting from July 1, 2021. The airline made the announcement in a statement on Friday. The development, which the airline attributed to its “response to high demand”, will be operated through the Boeing 787 Dreamliner featuring 22 seats…
Amarachi Orjiude and Sami Olatunji, Abuj The World Bank has said Nigeria can generate N600bn annually by increasing the excise duties on tobacco and alcohol as recommended in the National Development Update report. A Senior Tax Specialist of the bank, Rajul Awasthi, said this on Thursday at a virtual discussion on domestic revenue mobilisation. According…
Leke Baiyewu and Okechukwu Nnodim The House of Representatives’ Ad Hoc Committee on Assessment and Status of All Recovered Loots Movable and Immovable Assets from 2002 to 2020 by Agencies of the Federal Government of Nigeria for Effective Efficient Management and Utilisation, on Thursday, grilled the Acting Managing Director, Polaris Bank Limited, Innocent Ike, over…
MTN Nigeria plans to invest N640 billion (approximately US$1.5 billion) over the next three years to expand broadband access across the continent’s most populous country, in line with the federal government’s 2020-2025 National Broadband Plan and in support of MTN Group’s strategy, Ambition 2025: Leading digital solutions for Africa’s progress. ‘Nigeria is one of our…
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has lifted the travel ban on Nigeria, India and South Africa. An official document released over the weekend, from the Dubai Media Office indicated that passengers from Nigeria were expected to have received a negative result for a PCR test taken within 48 hours before departure. In the document, these…
Access Bank Plc has rewarded serving members of the Nigeria Youth Service Corps (NYSC) with over N15 million in its third edition of Access Bank Plc’s youth business challenge competition, Accessprenuer, which held across five states recently. Five top winners won N1 million each while others were rewarded with consolation cash prizes totaling to N10…
The pilot of a flight that was diverted to Belarus, allowing the arrest of an opposition journalist, had been warned that a bomb would detonate if it continued to Lithuania, according to Ryanair’s boss. Michael O’Leary said the pilot tried to seek advice from the airline, but was given false excuses by officials that Ryanair…
