L-R: Group Managing Director/CEO, Zenith Bank Plc, Dr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu (Centre), flanked from left by Executive Director, Zenith Bank Plc, Dr. Temitope Fasoranti; Founder, Skill Up with Kahdsole (SUWK), Chioma Ukpabi; Co-founder, Sync, Princess Edokpayi; and Co-founder/CEO, Tribapay, Bolu Oluwagbesan, during the presentation of cash prizes to the winners of the Zecathon at the Zenith Tech Fair 3.0 held at ...

The Third Edition of the Zenith Tech Fair, tagged “Future Forward 3.0”, is set to be held on Wednesday, November 22 and Thursday, November 23, 2023, at the Eko Convention Centre, Eko Hotels & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, from 8.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. daily. The Two-Day fair will showcase leading technology innovations that cut across different aspects of life, ...

Globally, access to finance is a critical success factor in the growth and development of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). Financial inclusion on the other hand is the availability and equality of opportunities to access financial services. It helps individuals and businesses to access useful and affordable financial products and services that meet their needs. Available statistics show that ...

FirstBank, Nigerias premier financial institution and leading financial inclusion services provider, has launched the Win Big promo to reward and delight its valued customers. The four-month promo, which started on 23 October 2023 and will run till 23 February 2023 will reward several new and existing customers of the Bank with a total cash reward of 170,000,000.00 naira. At the ...

Justice Hamza Muazu of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, has ordered that the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN, Godwin Emefiele, be remanded in Kuje prison pending the determination of his request for bail. Emefiele will remain in prison until November 22, when the court will deliver a ruling on his bail ...

The Organised Labour in Nigeria has suspended the nationwide strike which commenced on Tuesday November 14, 2023 to protest the brutalisation of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) president, Comrade Joe Ajaero in Owerri , the Imo state capital. This news blog gathered that the decision to suspend the action was reached at an emergency visual joint National Executive Council (NEC) meeting ...

….Warn ‘bad losers’ against blackmailing umpire …Vow to occupy INEC ‘as long as necessary’ Youths of Kogi State, on Wednesday, marched, in their numbers to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja, to declare their utmost confidence in the umpire and also affirm their support for the Governor-elect of the state, Usman Ododo. The indigenes, who warned ...

The Federal Government took the right step by instituting forex reforms and freeing forex previously used to defend the naira, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Finance Incorporated, Dr. Armstrong Takang has said. Speaking yesterday at the unveiling of the 2023 Nigerian Banking Sector Report titled: “Getting Nigeria to Work Again!” in Lagos, he said government had in the past, lost ...

The ongoing nationwide strike declared by organised labour is a misplaced priority, Senator Adams Oshiomhole declared yesterday. According to him, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) should take up issues on workers’ welfare rather than what will portray them as partisan. Oshiomhole, who shot into the limelight as a labour activist, crowning his career as president ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced that the old naira notes will continue to be legal tender beyond December 31, 2023, with no specified deadline. CBN said this on Tuesday in a statement signed by the Director, corporatee communications,Isa AbdulMumin. Despite the introduction of new currency notes last year and the initial plan to discontinue the old ones ...