Unity Bank Earmarks Over N30m To Empower NYSC Members       Nigerian lender, Unity Bank Plc has committed over N30 million to empower National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members through the Bank’s flagship Youth entrepreneurship development initiative known as Unity Bank Corpreneurship Challenge. The sum includes N4 million...

NCDMB, NEXIM Raise $40m Fund For Women In Oil Sector     Qualified women entrepreneurs in the Nigerian oil and gas industry can now benefit from the $40m Women in Oil and Gas Intervention Fund deployed by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board and Nigerian Export-Import...

Reps Query NECO For Unremitted N636.7m In 2019       House of Representatives Committee on Finance, yesterday queried the National Examinations Council (NECO) for failing to remit the sum N636, 778, 000 in 2019. The Committee which grilled the Acting Registrar of NECO, Ebikibina Ogborodi, and other top...

COVID-19 Vaccine: Nigeria Misses Out As W/Bank Gives $4bn To Ghana, 50 others     The World Bank has stated that it has spent over $4bn financing to curtail the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana, Benin and 49 other countries. This was contained in a press statement released on...

Reps Summon PPPRA Boss Over Unremitted N1.62bn IGR     The House of Representatives has summoned the Executive Secretary of Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), Mr Abdulkadir Saidu, over unremitted N1.62 billion Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to the Federation Account. The Chairman, House Committee on Finance, Rep...

PenCom Recovers N608.55m From 25 Defaulting Employers   The National Pension Commission has said it recovered N608.55m from 25 employers who deducted the monthly emoluments of their workers but did not remit to their respective Pension Fund Administrators. PenCom said this in its first-quarter 2021 report obtained...