Recapitalisation exercise: GTCO raises N209bn through public offer
Guaranty Trust Holding Company (GTCO) Plc has announced it raised N209.41 billion through a public offer. According to a statement on Monday, GTCO said the public offer is the…
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigns
Under growing pressure from his own party, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced he will step down and end his nine-year stretch as leader. Trudeau said he would…
Tony Elumelu Foundation opens applications for 2025 entrepreneurship programmes
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s leading champion of entrepreneurship has opened applications for its 2025 Entrepreneurship Programme. Aspiring and existing entrepreneurs from across Africa are invited to apply for…
Zambian ambassador sacked for asking male staff to shave her private parts
The President of Zambia has sacked the country's High Commissioner to South Africa for misconduct. President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia took the decision after the High Commissioner, Ms. Mazuba…
Security agents nab vandals of sewage manhole covers on Abuja highways
Security operatives have arrested some suspects in connection with the theft of sewage manhole covers on highways in Abuja, Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant (Public Communications and New…
We’ll intensify clampdown on ponzi schemes in 2025, says SEC DG
The Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Emomotimi Agama has said that the regulator’s top priority for 2025 is to revamp regulations on investment fraud, also known…
NACCIMA urges Tinubu to slash corporate taxes to 19%, VAT to 7.5%
The National Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Agriculture (NACCIMA) has called on President Bola Tinubu’s administration to take decisive steps toward tax reform, including reducing corporate…
BUA refinery not 90% completed, says management
BUA Group, an industrial conglomerate, has denied claims that its 200,000 barrels per day refinery in Akwa Ibom is 90 percent completed. In a statement on Sunday, the management…
Fubara can do business with three lawmakers, court rules
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has declared that Governor Siminialayi Fubara has the legal standing to transact businesses with the three lawmakers that did…
Popular socialite, Bisi Edionseri, Mummy Cash, dies at 89
A Nigerian socialite and businesswoman, Princess Kadijat Abike Adebisi Edionseri, popularly known as Mummy Cash has died. According to the family, the businesswoman, who came into reckoning in…
