Access Holdings has completed its bid to gain a foothold in Africa’s second-biggest oil producer, Angola, about two and a half months after announcing it had scaled regulatory hurdles to acquire the country’s Finibanco S.A. Bank. The move expands the territory of Nigeria’s biggest financial services group in the southern part of the continent, where…
Access Bank Plc and Standard Chartered Bank have entered into agreements for the acquisition of Standard Chartered’s shareholding in its subsidiaries in Angola, Cameroon, The Gambia, and Sierra Leone, and its Consumer, Private & Business Banking business in Tanzania. Each transaction remains subject to the approval of the respective local regulators and the banking regulator…
Primate Elijah Ayodele of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, has asked President Bola Tinubu to increase workers’ minimum wage to N100,000. Ayodele made this call in a statement signed by his media aide, Osho Oluwatosin on Thursday.The cleric said an increase in the minimum wage would cushion the effect of subsidy removal instead of the proposed…
President Bola Tinubu has praised the wife of the General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Folu Adeboye, for her Christian virtues, devotion to her highly-respected husband, the church, and family values on the anniversary of her birthday. Mrs Adeboye, who is reputed for her evangelical work with children, young people, and the…
Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s administration over his initiative to give N8,000 cash palliatives to 12 million Nigeria in six months. The President, on Thursday, wrote to the National Assembly about the development seeking approval to implement it in order to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removalWhile the planned…
Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party in Nigeria, has condemned the insecurity in the country’s South-east, saying the frequent sit-at-home order in the region is criminal. “What is going on in the South-east is essentially a criminal activity that must be nipped in the bud, with all hands being on deck,…
President Bola Tinubu has poured encomiums on Nobel Laureate and elder statesman, Wole Soyinka, a professor, on his 89th birthday, describing him as a veritable source of support, inspiration and encouragement. The president, who called Mr Soyinka a brother and comrade in the struggle for the restoration and entrenchment of democracy and good governance in…
President Bola Tinubu has asked the Senate to permit his administration to go ahead with the processing of a $800m loan facility from the World Bank requested by the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari to finance the National Safety Net Programme. The president’s request was in a letter read by the Senate President, Godswill…
By Ayomide Otitoju Nigeria’s innovative and youth-friendly telecommunications company, 9mobile, is to enter a strategic partnership with the prestigious Bayero University, Kano (BUK), as the University prepares to establish theNCC’s center of excellence in telecommunication Research and Development.This partnership will cover capacity building, modernized educational delivery, and optimized technology delivery to students.Through this collaboration,the University…
