FCMB boss charges SMEs to adopt corporate governance practices

Business leader and first female Managing Director of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Mrs. Yemisi Edun, has charged corporate organisations, particularly micro-businesses, to adopt sound corporate governance practices in order to stand the test of time. She made this call as the guest speaker at the inaugural Corporate Governance and Enterprise Development Conference organised by […]

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VAT row, revenue and fiscal federalism

Executive Chairman, FIRS, Muhammad Nami; National Assembly Fiscal federalism gained a toehold in Nigeria’s twisted federation on Tuesday when a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, rejected an application by the Federal Inland Revenue Service seeking a stay of execution of the court’s earlier judgement affirming the right of the Rivers State Government to collect […]

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GTBank posts N93.1bn in six months – Agbaje

Guaranty Trust Bank, now Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc, has posted a profit before tax of N93.1 billion for the six months ended June 30, according to the Group Chief Executive Officer of Guaranty Trust Holding, Mr Segun Agbaje. Disclosing the company’s audited financial results for the period ended June 30, on Friday, in Lagos, […]

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My brother will never die in vain — Sowore

Former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, says his younger brother, Olajide, will not die in vain. He stated this in a Facebook post on Thursday night hours after the burial of Olajide in the Kiribo area of Ondo State. “My brother Olajide Sowore will never die in vain, thank you Nigeria! Though I am shackled, I […]

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Buhari assures striking doctors payment of all genuine outstanding debts

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured striking doctors the payment of all genuine outstanding debts as he urged them to return to their duty posts. In a statement by his media aide, Garba Shehu, he promised that “Debts genuinely owed Health workers will be settled.” The president gave the assurance on Friday during a meeting with […]

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Wike: Testing the waters for true federalism

By Paulinus Nsirim The agitation for true Federalism was taken a definitive step further on Thursday, August 19, 2021, when Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, signed the Rivers State Value Added Tax Bill, 2021 into law at the Government House, Port Harcourt. The Law vests the Rivers State Government with power and authority to impose, charge, […]

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Togo shuts churches, mosques, bans weddings, funerals as Covid-19 cases rise

Togo’s government has ordered all places of worship to shut down for one month starting on Friday, following a “worrying upsurge” in coronavirus cases in recent weeks. The West African nation of about eight million people has recorded just over 23,000 cases and 203 deaths but the true tally could be higher given low testing […]

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