Nigeria Breaking News Today Headlines Thursday 29th August 2019
Here are some of the Nigeria Breaking News Today Headlines on some of the newspapers.
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target=_blank>OAGF to assist NHIS recover trapped funds in Aso savings
The Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, has offered to assist National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, to retrieve its trapped deposit in the vault of Aso Savings and Loans Limited. Idris regretted that had management of NHIS as government institution carried Office of the Accountant General of Federation along on the transaction with
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target=_blank>N1.7bn fraud: ICPC arrests head of disability cooperative society
…evacuates 14 women from home The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has announced the arrest of the National Coordinator, Federal Civil Service Staff with Disabilities Multipurpose Cooperative Society, one Alhaji Iliasu Olarewaju Abdul-Rauf, over alleged involvement in N1.7 billion fraud. The Commission added that in continuation of investigation, detectives had
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target=_blank>HOSTCOM: Benin monarch, TROMPCOM affirm Tamaranebi as chair
The National Executive of Host Communities of Nigeria producing oil and gas HOSTCOM, yesterday insisted that Dr. Style Benjamin Tamaranebi remained the authentic, legitimate and duly elected National Chairman of HOSTCOM. Addressing a press conference yesterday at HOSTCOM House in Effurun, Delta State, the group noted that there was only one existing HOSTCOM duly registered
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target=_blank>Lagos to empower 15,000 youths in agric-business
No fewer than 15,000 jobless youths in Lagos State would be engaged in different value chains of the agricultural sector, the Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture, Prince Gbolahan Lawal has said. The Commissioner said that the state would train and empower the youths in the next four years, adding that the time frame of the
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target=_blank>A’Ibom to sanction non-performing contractors
Akwa Ibom State Government yesterday expressed dissatisfaction with the poor quality and slow pace of work done on the 15.1Km Odio Road in Eket Local Government Area of the state by VKS Construction Company. This was even as the state government read a riot act to non-performing contractors handling government projects across the state. The
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target=_blank>Stanbic IBTC reports 16% drop in profit
Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc, a member of Standard Bank Group, has posted 15.87 per cent decline in profit after tax for the half year ended June 30, 2019. The result, which was submitted to the Nigerian Stock Exchange in Lagos yesterday, showed that profit after tax decreased to N36.245 billion during the period from N43.084
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target=_blank>NSE halts losing streak with marginal gain
Local equities rebounded on resumed bargain hunting activities yesterday as overall performance measures, NSE All Share Index (ASI), grew marginally by 0.01 per cent, halting two days losing streak. The stock market had tumbled for the second day as investors retreated following sell offs occasioned by profit taking. The bullish activities was driven by consumer
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target=_blank>Fitch faults CBN on measures to boost lending
Fitch Ratings has said that recent measures announced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to boost economic growth through incentives for bank lending, “jar” with the apex bank’s goal of maintaining a stable exchange rate. According to the agency, “the CBN’s, Attempts to reconcile competing goals through unconventional macroeconomic management and weaknesses in policy
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target=_blank>Sterling Bank’s agric summit to boosts food security
Sterling Bank’s forthcoming Agriculture Summit Africa will play a significant role in Nigeria’s quest to achieve food security, the lender has said. Executive Director, Corporate and Investment Banking, Sterling Bank, Mr. Yemi Odubiyi, stated this during a press conference in Lagos where the Bank briefed journalists on the Agriculture Summit Africa billed for September 5
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Zenith Bank introduces education loan for children
Nigeria’s leading financial institution, Zenith Bank Plc, has introduced the Zenith Children’s Account (ZECA) Education Loan to assist parents pay their children/ wards school fees as the new school session begins. The loan offering, which is disbursed directly to the account of the beneficiary’s school, comes at a very competitive interest rate and flexible repayment […]
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