Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, next week as Ankara and the United Nations seek to revive a Ukraine grain export deal that helped ease a global food crisis. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that Putin and Erdogan would meet on Monday in Russia’s Black…
Fidelity Bank Plc says it will help schools to prepare adequately for the next session and deliver quality education as summer break gets to an end. In a statement, it said through its product known as the Fidelity Edu Loan, administrators of registered private primary, secondary and tertiary institutions in Nigeria could access loans of…
The former Chief Executive of Stanbic IBTC Holdings, Sola David-Borha, has sold 615,812 units of the lender’s shares. In a notice on the director’s dealings, it was revealed that David-Borha carried out the transaction on Thursday on the platform of the Nigerian Exchange Limited. The shares sold at an average rate of N63.21 per unit,…
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry has said that the removal of fuel subsidy and unification of exchange rates in the country negatively impacted the growth of businesses in the first half of the year. The President of the LCCI, Michael Olawale-Cole, represented by his deputy, Gabriel Idahosa stated this during the half-year economic…
A non-executive director of Sterling Financial Holdings Plc, Abubakar Suleiman, has increased his stakes in the group by 7,882,228 units. Suleiman, who is also the chief executive officer of Sterling Bank, purchased the shares on Tuesday and Wednesday on the Nigerian Exchange Platform in Lagos, according to an insider trading notice filed with the Nigerian…
Provost of The Lagos State University College of Medicine (LASUCOM), Ikeja, has charged newly inducted Medical Doctors and Dental Surgeons into the profession to put service to humanity forward in their practice and be committed to the development of the health sector. Prof. Abiodun Adewuya at the induction ceremony of the 17th set of graduating…
The Italian Consulate General in Lagos, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with the support of Solution17 for Climate Action, will host The Nigeria-Italy Youth4Climate Conference on September 15, 2023, at the Lagos Continental Hotel. It aims to drive climate action, Invest in Climate Solutions and collaborate on youth-focused initiatives across different…
WHO launched the WHO Civil Society Commission and held the inaugural meeting of its Steering Committee in Geneva today. The Commission provides, for the first time, the ability to channel advice and recommendations in a more structured and systematic manner from civil society to WHO on health priorities and related issues. The historical role of civil…
South Africa will not be forced to side with any global powers, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday as he readied to host a summit of major emerging economies. The meeting in Johannesburg this week of BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — will seek to widen their influence and push…
