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The Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) has granted N58 billion loans to 23,600 beneficiaries to address the housing deficits in the country. The facilities cover April 2017 to March 2019. A breakdown shows that National Housing Fund (NHF) mortgage ...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) yesterday insisted that some financial institutions were engaging in unethical conducts by opening accounts for ‘criminals.’ Its chairman, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, said the banks also employ innuendos that lure criminal ...

Protesting workers in the employ of the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) have warned commercial banks to desist from dealing with consultants on issues concerning revenue collections and remittances by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). Under the ...

EcobankPay, the digital payment and collections service of Ecobank Nigeria has entered into a partnership with TerraKulture, Nigeria’s foremost stage play and cultural show promoters with Bolanle-Austen Peters as lead. Through this partnership, Ecobank intends to support the promotion of ...

If feelers from the World Health Organisation (WHO) are anything to go by, Nigeria may be certified polio-free this December when it would have accomplished interruption of Wild Polio Virus (WPV) transmission for over three years. By July and August, ...

Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris, yesterday disclosed that he has released N55b to pay arrears of entitlements to promoted Federal Government employees. He said of the amount, N42b has been paid to the affected civil servants, while ...

Jaiz Bank PLC has secured a N3 billion facility from the Bank of Industry (BOI) to boost, develop and expand Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the country. The funds would be lend to small business operators to grow ...

Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Muhammadu Jega, yesterday critisised university lecturers for allegedly conniving with politicians to undermine the integrity and outcome of the 2019 general elections. He regretted that the dons facilitated the faulty recruitment ...

Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC), Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, has insisted that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) cannot prosecute electoral offenders alone. He stated this yesterday in Keffi, Nasarawa State at the National ...

Two groups, Save Kogi Movement (SKM), and Idah Club 6575, have called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, to retrieve arms illegally possessed by youths in the state. In separate appeals yesterday in Lokoja, they claimed that ...