COVID-19 Vaccination Low Turnout Hits States As First Phase Ends April 16 Nationwide
As the target date given by the federal government for states to end the first phase of COVID-19 vaccination approaches,…
Day: April 12, 2021
PenCom Gets ISO Certification
The National Pension Commission said it has attained ISO 27001:2013 certification for its Information Security Management System. It said in…
Software Maker UiPath Aims For Nearly $26 Billion Valuation In U.S. IPO
Robotic process automation startup UiPath Inc is targeting a valuation of nearly $26 billion in its U.S. initial public offering…
Kyari Excited As Train Delivers Gas Pipes For For $2.8bn AKK Project
For the first since its take-off last year, the $2.8 billion Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline project received a boost at…
OPL 245: Shell, Eni Should Face Prosecution, HEDA Tells Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has been asked to ensure that oil giants, Shell and Eni face prosecution in Nigeria. Shell and…
Tin-Can Port Customs Earned N112.7bn In Q1
The import revenue generation at the Tin-Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) rose by 23 per cent…
Ex-Banker Guillermo Lasso Elected Ecuador President
Former banker Guillermo Lasso won Ecuador’s presidential election Sunday, pledging “opportunities and prosperity” despite a pandemic-battered and debt-laden economy and…
We’re Not Aware Of Currency Printing – Finance Ministry, Central Bank Of Nigeria
The Central Bank of Nigeria had denied knowledge of claim that Nigeria printed billions of naira last month to cushion…
White House To Zero In On Chip Shortage In Meeting With Company Officials
Senior White House officials will meet on Monday with top executives from nearly 20 major companies to discuss a global…
Smartphone Shipments In China In March Increase 67.7%: CAICT
Shipments of smartphones within China increased 67.7% year-on-year to 35.5 million handsets in March, the China Academy of Information and…
Huawei To Reduce Reliance On Advanced Process Techniques
Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies will invest more in businesses that are less reliant on advanced process techniques, it…
No One Cares’: Lebanon’s Financial Crisis And Domestic Workers
abrina, a Bangladeshi domestic worker, is barely 127cm (4 feet 2 inches) tall and extremely thin. Her shoulder blades protruded…
Revealed! Real Reason Segun Agbaje Will Not Handover GTB to A Woman
The tussle for who succeeds Segun Agbaje as the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Guaranty Trust Bank has reached…
SPW Participants Lament Non-Payment By Federal Government
Participants in the Federal Government’s Special Public Works programme have complained about the non-payment of their stipends three months after…
Firm Drives Home Rentals With Artificial Intelligence
Digital Landlord Nigeria Limited said it has adopted the use of artificial intelligence to drive rentals of its short-let apartments.…
Electricity Generation Falls To 3,922MW, 11 Plants Idle
Electricity generation in the country fell below the 4,000 megawatts mark on Sunday as 11 plants were idle, even as…
MTN, Banks Meet Tuesday, customers Reconnected To USSD
MTN customers have been reconnected to banking channels after commercial banks had blocked them from using their channels, including the…
Prince Harry Arrives Back In The UK For Prince Philip Funeral
Prince Harry, whose explosive interview alongside his wife Meghan plunged the royal family into its biggest crisis in decades, has…
Mitsubishi Motors To Cut Output In Japan And Thailand Due To Chip Shortage
Mitsubishi Motors Corp will cut production by a combined 7,500 vehicles at three plants in Japan and Thailand in April,…
South Korean PM Arrives In Iran To Help Try To Revive Nuclear Deal
South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun arrived in Iran on Sunday to help try to restore a 2015 nuclear deal…
Fed’s Powell: U.S. Economy At An ‘Inflection Point’ – CBS ’60 Minutes’
The U.S. economy is at an “inflection point” with expectations that growth and hiring will pick up speed in the…
HSBC And Huawei CFO Reach Agreement On Document Publication Linked To Extradition Case
HSBC and Huawei Technologies’ Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou have reached an agreement in a dispute about the publication of…
Commodities Trader Trafigura Launches Carbon Trading Desk
Trafigura has begun launching a carbon trading desk led by Hannah Hauman, the global commodities trading firm said on Friday,…
Will Corporate Earnings Be Strong Enough To Justify The Record Stocks Rally?
The Dow and S&P 500 are at record highs thanks to Wall Street optimism about Covid-19 vaccines, federal government stimulus, a rebounding global economy and a…
Court Grants Permission To Serve Processes On ETI Abroad
The stage may have been set for a showdown between Ecobank Transnational Inc (ETI) and one of its former senior…
Federal Government Pledges To Implement Report On $1bn Abandoned Oil Facility
The federal government has received the report of the compensatory contracts and other incentives committee on the abandoned $1 billion…
Petrol, Used Vehicles, Motorcycles, Antibiotics, Nigeria’s Major Imports – NBS
Nigeria’s major export and import market in the fourth quarter of 2020 were India, Spain, the Netherlands, United States and…
CAC Sets Three-Hour Circle For Company Registration
The Corporate Affairs Commission on Sunday stated that following the successful deployment of an end-to-end registration module, it was now…
Ogun Farmers Eager For Our Fertiliser Rollout – Dangote
Farmers in Ogun State are eagerly awaiting the commencement of operations of the Dangote fertiliser plant, which is expected to…
Rising Debt: DMO Blames COVID-19, Experts Say Borrowing From Central Bank Nigeria Dangerous
Nigeria’s debt profile has been on the increase because of the impact of revenue crash and the crises trailing the…