MTN Nigeria Communications Plc (MTN), has paid the sixth and final instalment of N55 billion to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). This completes MTN’s payment of the N330 billion negotiated settlement agreed between the NCC and the company in 2016. According to Tobechukwu Okigbo, MTN’s chief corporate relations officer, the successful resolution of the fine […]
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said that the Resource Centre at the Olusosun Dump site, near Ojota will soon be available for training and retraining of youths on how to convert waste to wealth. Sanwo-Olu disclosed that the building under construction at the entrance of the site would be used to train and […]
A total of 557,083,712 electronic-payment transactions valued at N34.02 trillion were recorded in selected banks across the country in the first quarter, 2019, Nigeria’s statistics bureau has said. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said this in a report on Selected Banking Sector Data: Sectorial Breakdown of Credit, ePayment Channels and Staff Strength data posted […]
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has scrapped the use of scratch cards for the conduct of its Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE). Instead, the board said it had procured 8,000 biometric machines for registration of candidates during the conduct of its examinations. NECO’s Board Chairman, Dr. Abubakar Saddiq, stated this during the commissioning of the […]
A student at the Department of Hospitality Management Technology, Lagos State Polytechnic, Ezekiel Mayowa, has killed himself after he was reportedly dumped by his girlfriend. The corpse of the 34-year-old part-time student was discovered in his residence at Eyita, Ikorodu, around 5am on Friday. He was said to have taken a poisonous substance suspected to […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released 4,636 more results of its recently conducted Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The board’s Head, Media and Information, Fabian Benjamin, made this disclosure in a statement on Friday in Lagos. The released results were among the 34,120 that were initially withheld while announcing the results on […]