All admissions into the nation’s tertiary institutions for the 2020/2021 academic session will end by June 15, 2021. The decision was collectively taken at a virtual meeting with heads of tertiary institutions in the country on Wednesday, February 24, 2021.…
United Capital Plc grows full year’s profit by 61% to N8b
Foremost Pan-African financial and investment services group, United Capital Plc has announced its audited results for the full year ended December 31, 2020, recording double-digit growth across all its major income lines. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant challenging…
Zenith Bank profit grows by 5% to N255.1b, declares N2.70 final dividend
Zenith Bank Plc has released its audited results for the year ended December 31, 2020, showing earnings growth in spite of a challenging macro-economic environment exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This increase arose from a combination of growth in the…
FIFA Legends anticipate ground-breaking FIFA World Cup in Qatar
FIFA Legends Kaka, Javier Mascherano and Julio Cesar believe the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ will unite and inspire football fans from across the globe. The South American trio – all previous winners of the FIFA Club World Cup are…
CBN’s ban on crypto currencies – Ehi Braimah
Recently, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) issued a directive to Deposit Money Banks (DMBs), non-bank financial institutions and other financial institutions to close accounts used for crypto transactions. In other words, banks are required to stop dealing in digital…
NBBF, others optimistic despite Tokyo Olympics ‘Group of Death’ for D’Tigress
Four-time African champions, D’Tigress are once again fine-tuning preparations to get themselves in shape to test their skills, resilience and strength against world’s best teams at the Tokyo Olympics scheduled to begin on July 23, after its initial postponement due…
How Lenovo is taking the global PC market by storm
Global Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Lenovo has continued to astound market watchers, dominating worldwide PC shipments on the back of a rise in demand. The demand is fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has seen more schools and students embracing…
Are bright sides to coronavirus signalling impending death of democracy? – Magnus Onyibe
The bright side that one has in mind is not really the fact that vaccines to protect mankind from being further decimated by coronavirus have been produced, which is good, anyway. Neither is it the number of those struck by…
Nigerians, others implicated in massive $10bn California unemployment fraud
As an army of investigators tries to pin down the scope of unemployment benefit fraud in California, the head of a security firm working for the state is warning that payments of fraudulent claims could more than double the $4…
Ndidi Dike holds installation, new works and media exhibition
Nigerian artist Ndidi Dike will hold a solo exhibition titled “Commodities of Consumption and Sites of Extraction in the Global South”. To open Saturday, January 16 at 3 pm it is in conjunction with Goethe-Institut Nigeria and will take place…