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Leadway Pensure PFA Bags Customer Service Excellence Award at Africa Brands Awards 2021

Leadway Pensure PFA Limited, Nigeria’s foremost pension funds administrator, has been recognized as the most admired pension brand in Nigeria following its emergence as the winner of the Customer Excellence Award at the 2021 edition of the Africa Brands Awards. Still on the recognition, the Managing Director, Leadway Pensure PFA Limited, Mrs. Ronke Adedeji, stated that receiving the award was ... Read More »

Dangote Sugar denies involvement in price fixing, asserts its strong participation in the NSMP

Dangote Sugar Refinery PLC (DSR) is aware of an online publication claiming that Dangote Sugar Refinery PLC is engaging in price-fixing and is not honestly engaged in any Backward Integration Programme as claimed. DSR wishes to vehemently refute the allegations and assertions in their entirety as the false allegations are geared at tarnishing the good name and brand of Dangote ... Read More »

RED LINE PROJECT : Lagos to close Ikeja road for 15 months

The Lagos State Government will be diverting the traffic on Adegbola Street from Sunday 11th April, 2021 for 15 months. This is to enable the construction of Ikeja Overpass for the Red Line Project of the Lagos Rail Mass Transit. Commissioner for Transportation Dr. Frederic Oladeinde, in a statement, explained the diversion was in line with the need to preserve ... Read More »

Unstructured Supplementary Service Data : MTN, bank CEOs meeting inconclusive

The meeting between the banks and MTN Nigeria over the commission on Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) service was not concluded on Tuesday, it was gathered. A letter signed by MTN’s Chief Executive Officer, Karl Toriola addressed to the Chairman of Body of Banks CEOs, Herbert Wigwe, who doubles as Access Bank’s CEO, had indicated that the meeting would be ... Read More »

Adamu was Sacked as the Inspector-General of Police

….Usman Baba take over as acting Inspector-General of Police with immediate effect President Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has appointed a Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, as the acting Inspector-General of Police with immediate effect. The Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi, disclosed this to State House correspondents in Abuja on Tuesday. Baba is taking over from Mohammed Adamu, whose tenure ... Read More »

DOMESTIC DEBT : We’ve uncovered N50bn hidden debt by Amosun govt – Dapo Abiodun

The Ogun State Government says it took its diligence to discover an alleged hidden additional N50bn domestic debt left behind by the immediate-past administration of Senator Ibikunle Amosun. Abiodun said the figures given to it by Amosun’s administration did not capture the entire liabilities it left behind when the former governor left office in 2019. In a statement signed by ... Read More »

Media Intelligence Agency launches “Get-Reports” for PR agencies in Nigeria

P+ Measurement Services, Nigeria’s leading Independent Public Relations (PR) measurement and evaluation agency, has introduced “Get-Reports” a product that allows the purchase of PR performance audit reports. It is the first of its kind in the Nigerian Public Relations industry. The product spans across areas which includes 22 Commercial Nigerian Banks PR Performance Audit Report; Top Nigerian Insurance PR Performance ... Read More »

Negotiating with bandits to free 39 students attracts prosecution Says Nasir El-Rufai

The Kaduna State Government has said it never appointed any group or individual to negotiate with bandits over the abduction of the 39 students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Mando, in the Igabi Local Government Area of the state. The state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, who stated this on Sunday, added that ... Read More »

MTN, banks meet Tuesday, customers reconnected to USSD

MTN customers have been reconnected to banking channels after commercial banks had blocked them from using their channels, including the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data and banking apps on Friday. The channels were blocked as a result of MTN reducing the banks’ commission on USSD airtime to 2.5 per cent. However, following the intervention by the Minister of Communications and Digital ... Read More »

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