Despite a challenging economic and regulatory landscape, Access Bank PLC has announced gross earnings of ₦764.7bn for the financial year ended December 31, 2020. The Bank’s audited gross earnings shows a 15% improvement from the ₦666.75bn posted for the comparative period of 2019. While the Bank’s Profit Before Tax stood at ₦125.9bn, it also posted…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed the closure of bank accounts of persons or entities involved in cryptocurrency transactions. The apex bank issued the order on Friday in a circular to deposit money banks (DMBs), non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs), and other financial institutions (OFIs).  “Further to earlier regulatory directives on the subject, the…
Ordinarily, the attempt by Captain Hosa Okunbo to obfuscate the real issues and confuse the public through a massive manipulative media onslaught should be dismissed as a desperate and futile effort to clean his Augean stable. However, the inept and unskillful manner of his media campaign has only revealed to the discerning mind the missing…
               Veteran Yoruba actress, Folake Aremu, popularly known as Orisabunmi, is dead, reports The Gazelle News.com.  The news of her demise was broken by the President of the Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria (TAMPAN), Bolaji Amusan,…
ISG & Partners, under the leadership of Mr Steven Tunistra has offered to assist the private sector in Africa fund its infrastructural projects to enable it assist government in creating jobs while also developing infrastructures in the continent. Fielding questions from the media at the weekend, Steven Tuinstra CEO, President and Founder International Service Group…
The prime suspect in connection with incessant ritual killings of residents of Akinyele area of Ibadan in Oyo State, Sunday Shodipe, who escaped from police custody, has killed another woman in the community. The incident occurred on Saturday when the fugitive sneaked into the room of a woman identified as Funmilayo (Iya Ibeji) and smashed…
The Federal Government expended about N523.3 million on school feeding programme during the lockdown against the coronavirus pandemic. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development (MHADMSD), Sadiya Farouq, announced this at the Presidential Taskforce briefing on COVID-19 on Monday in Abuja. Farouk made the revelation against the rumours and speculations going around…
Ibrahim Magu, suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has been sent back to area 10 force criminal investigation department (FCID) of the police in Abuja where he spent the night on Monday. Gathered that he was moved to detention at the end of questioning by the panel on Tuesday at…
The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, spent last night in police cell after he was grilled for about six hours by a Presidential panel headed by Justice Isa Salami, a former President of the Court of Appeal. The PUNCH gathered that Magu was detained at the Force Criminal Investigation Department…
The Ondo State Deputy Governor, Agboola Ajayi has resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Â The Deputy Governor resigned his membership at Ward 2, Apoi, in Ese Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State. This is coming a day after he was blocked from the government house from packing his property. His resignation…
