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Former president Goodluck Jonathan shall launch his book titled ‘My Transition Hours’ on Tuesday, November 20, 2018. President Muhammadu Buhari, ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar are expected to attend the launch. Dare Lasisi Online gathered that the book will be launched on Tuesday, November 20, in Abuja which will also be the 61st birthday of the former president of Nigeria. President Buhari will be the special guest of honour; Obasanjo will chair the event while Atiku has also been invited by Jonathan as a special guest. Other dignitaries invited to participate in the official presentation are the former…
By Tunde Wahab(ThisDay) One of Nigeria’s leading micro-finance institution, Credit Direct Limited, recently joined the global community to mark the Customer Service Week from October 1- 5 as the company impacted several communities across the country. Drawing from the theme of this year’s celebration: “Excellence Happens Here,” the company provided free health checks and drugs to over 2,000 beneficiaries in five states. These free health services were provided simultaneously to teachers in public primary and secondary schools in Abuja, Lagos, Kaduna, Port Harcourt and Kwara states, where health professionals provided free consultation, free tests, free drugs, eye glasses and…
Quickteller, an e-commerce platform of Interswitch Group, has announced the launch of the Quickteller Global Mall. The new service was developed in furtherance of the company’s commitment toward enhancing easy and better service delivery. Now customers can shop directly from over 100 international stores, including: Amazon, Zara, eBay and Macy’s, and pay in Naira. A statement from the company explained that the service was created to offer enduring guarantee for businesses to reliably cater to its esteemed customers’ needs while providing solutions that make daily life transactions easier and more convenient. The Quickteller Global Mall affords international business people the…
Leading cement manufacturing company and most capitalised stock on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Dangote Cement Plc, yesterday reported a profit after tax (PAT) of N158.227 billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2018. The financial statements of the company showed a revenue of N685.290 billion in 2018, showing an increase of 14 per cent compared with N603.575 billion recorded in the corresponding period of 2017. Cost of sales went up from N259 billion to N287 billion, bringing gross profit to N397.608 billion, up from N343.721 billion in 2017. Administrative expenses increased from N32.673 billion to N38.112 billion, while…
Lends its voice to women in banking In furtherance of its commitment to enabling women in banking in Nigeria, FBNQuest Merchant Bank supported the Association of Professional Women Bankers on its Corporate Dinner, themed “Funding Infrastructural Development in an Emerging Economy”.This annual event was held on Friday 19th October, 2018 at the Lagos Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island. The Association of Professional Women Bankers (APWB) is the female arm of the prestigious Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN). The event was organized to provide a platform for stakeholders in the banking sector to engage and strategize on methods that will…
Access Bank Plc has announced group earnings of N375.2bn and profit after tax of N62.9bn for the third quarter of this year. The bank, in its financial statements for the period ended September 30, 2018, stated that its profit after tax was a 12 per cent increase from N56.4bn, which was recorded during the same period in 2017. It said subsidiary contribution also increased from 15 per cent to 32 per cent. According to the report, the group earnings for the nine months to September 2018 increased by three per cent from N365.1bn recorded during the corresponding period in 2017…
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Nigerian Telecommunications Commission to ensure that all nooks and crannies of the country are fully covered in the broadband deployment programme. The Executive Vice Chairman of the commission, Prof. Umar Dambatta, confirmed this in Kano, stressing that the action was geared towards the enhancement of socio-economic development through telecommunication technology. Dambatta, who spoke during the first-leg of Broadband Engagement Forum for stakeholders in the North, said already, the country had been divided into seven zones, namely: North-West, North-East, North-Central, South-South, South-East, South-West and Lagos zones, so as to ensure effective and equitable broadband service…
Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun has dismissed as mischief the insinuation that he had defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) or planning to dump the party over political developments in the state. Amosun stated this when he fielded questions from State House correspondent of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that prior to Sunday’s meeting with the president, Amosun had visited the presidential villa for over four times within the past three weeks where he met separately…
Uncle Dele, Permit me to tender an unreserved apology for this open letter. I am not here to provoke your traumatized spirit. I cannot even massage your bombed ego but to celebrate you as a prominent champion of truth in Nigeria. Your killers like the proverbial predators are still walking as free men, desperately searching for more preys to kill. Uncle Dele, you inspired me to fall in love with journalism as a teenager who grew up in Abeokuta, the cradle of journalism in Nigeria. I was a fanatical reader of your column, Parallax Snaps. You’re not only a pen…
“Any innocent soul checkmated by death in cold blood is like killing in pogroms.” –Dele Giwa (16 March 1947 – 19 October 1986) By Dare Lasisi, Publisher/CEO, Dare Lasisi Online. The first act of terrorism against the fourth estate of the realm took place in Nigeria on that tragic Sunday(October 19th, 1986) when a 39-year-old investigative journalist and Editor-in-chief of Newswatch magazine, Dele Giwa was brutally assassinated through the novel instrumentality of a parcel bomb in his Lagos residence. Giwa once stated that journalism is unarguably one of the most dangerous professions in the universe. Just like Jamal Khashoggi,…