Nigerians students in senior secondary schools and undergraduates in various Nigeria’s higher institutions are spending an estimated N159 billion cumulatively on mobile phone data monthly, LEADERSHIP checks have shown. According to available data, there are an average of 13.9million students ...
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Cadbury Nigeria Plc has announced an operating profit growth of 4,228 per cent for the full year ended December 31, 2023. The company’s unaudited financial statements released to the investing public on the Nigerian Exchange revealed that operating profit for the ...
Read More »NGX Commits To Financial Literacy Among Youths
The Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) has announced the release of the latest edition of the NGX StockTown, a unique comic book designed to promote financial literacy among the younger generation of Nigerians. NGX StockTown is the realisation of a long-held ...
Read More »FirstBank Clinches Corporate Bank Award At 2023 Euromoney Awards
FirstBank, Nigeria’s premier financial institution and financial inclusion services provider, was announced as the Best Corporate Bank at the recent prestigious Euromoney Awards for Excellence, Nigeria 2023. The Bank clinched the coveted award based on its 130-year commitment to enabling ...
Read More »NAFDAC Enforces Ban On Alcoholic Beverages In Sachets
National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has banned the manufacturing and sale of alcoholic beverages in sachets, small bottles of 200ml and below. The director-general of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, who stated this yesterday at a ...
Read More »Osimhen Suffers Ill-health, May Miss Super Eagles Clash With Bafana Bafana
Super Eagles star striker, Victor Osimhen, has been left out of the Super Eagles trip to Bouaké city in Cote d’Ivoire for the 2023 Africa of Nations (AFCON) semifinal clash with Bafana Bafana of South Africa slated for Wednesday. The ...
Read More »NLNG Trains Female Journalists In Digital Skills
The Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited concluded another edition in the series of #NLNGChangeYourStory workshops on Thursday, focusing on arming women journalists with cutting-edge digital communication and social media skills for reporting gender-based issues. From 30th January to 1st ...
Read More »AfDB Set To Disburse $540m For Dev’t Of Special Agro-Industrial Zones In Nigeria
AfDB Set To Disburse $540m For Dev’t Of Special Agro-Industrial Zones In Nigeria. All is set for the African Development Bank (AfDB) to commence the disbursement of $540 million fund to the first set of States in Nigeria for the ...
Read More »CAC Hides INTELS Ownership, Frustrates Request For Disclosure
The management of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has failed to disclose the identities of the board members of Orlean Investment Africa Limited, the real owners of INTELS Nigeria. LEADERSHIP recalls that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar had said he ...
Read More »MTN Foundation, PSHAN To Build 52 PHCs
A group, Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria (PSHAN) and MTN Foundation have signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) to deliver 52 primary healthcare centres across the country. The partnership would further deliver additional 40 qualitative and affordable PHCs in ...
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