Banking

Serving new cardholders with more PoS terminals

Digital banking is the new route that financial service providers and regulators are travelling to offer seamless services to the banked, and encourages the unbanked and underbanked to join the financial services net. Two channels have for long dominated the digital banking space – mobile banking and Point of Sale (PoS) services. In the mobile banking space, the e-Bills Pay was a major…
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Banking

Unity Bank posts N27b gross earnings in six months

Unity Bank Plc has posted gross earnings of N27.6 billion for its half-year results, representing a growth of 17 per cent year-on-year. In its unaudited half-year financials submitted to the Nigeria Exchange Group Limited, the bank also made significant improvements across…
Technology

NAPTIP deepens with actors over use of technology in crime elimination

The National Agency for Prohibition of Traffick in persons (NAPTIP) in collaboration with partners, said it had deepened its commitment to end cases of child labour, abuse and trafficking for sexual exploitation in the state. The Head of the agency in the state, Mrs Bertha Offor, disclosed this on Saturday at the 2022 edition of World Day Against Human Trafficking. Offor revealed that the event…
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Energy

Addax workers start strike, oil production sheds 22,000bpd

Workers of Addax Petroleum Development Nigeria have embarked on strike in protest against anti-labour practices by the firm, causing possible reduction in Nigeria’s crude oil production by 22,000 barrels per day. Addax, owned by China’s Sinopec Group, has four Oil Mining…
Real Estate

Three years advance rent deadly to economy – Fashola

The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday declared that the collection of two to three years’ rent in advance by property owners was causing more harm than good to Nigeria’s economy. Fashola, who intensified the push for monthly rent payments…
Uncategorized

4.7 million get SIMs after FG’s call ban

Four million, seven hundred and sixty-nine thousand, six hundred and eighty-five million subscribers have gotten Subscriber Identity Modules since the Federal Government barred outgoing calls from SIMs that have not been linked to their National Identification Numbers. This is according to new subscriber data from the Nigerian Communications Commission. When the Federal Government barred lines…
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Energy

NNPC/TotalEnergies JV start production in Ikike field

TotalEnergies has begun oil production from the Ikike field located in oil mining lease (OML) 99. The field, owned jointly with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, was discovered in 1977, with TotalEnergies (the operator) holding 40 per cent shares and…
Technology

Zoho Technologies, others honours with awards

Leading digital technology solutions providers, innovative users and digital savvy states have been honoured at the 18th Annual Titans of Tech Awards which held in Lagos. African Data Centre was crowned as the Most Innovative Data Centre Service Provider Of The Year, Zoho Technologies emerged as the Most Innovative Business Productivity Solutions Provider Of The Year and Itel was voted Most…
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