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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nineteen unions have so far directed their workers to comply with the directive of the two labour unions to embark on an indefinite nationwide strike. The PUNCH reports that the National Executive Council meeting of the labour unions, held on November 13, 2023, in Abuja, resolved to embark on the strike. The development was a result of the alleged failure ...

The Management of Kaduna Electric has announced the dismissal of no fewer than 39 staff members for various offences which were in breach of the company’s policy. The company’s Head of Corporate Communication, Abdulazeez Abdullahi, made this known in a statement in Kaduna on Monday, saying that the offences range from misappropriation of company funds, fraudulent practices, unauthorised access and ...

President Bola Tinubu has appointed Tunji Olaopa, a professor of public administration, as the chairman of the federal civil service commission (FCSC). In a statement on Friday, Ajuri Ngelale, special adviser to the president on media and publicity, said Tinubu also approved the appointment of members of the commission. According to the statement, the newly appointed leadership of the commission ...