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Chairman of Honeywell Group, Dr. Oba Otudeko has said that mortgage financing models would provide Deposit Money Banks (DMB) greater access to the under-served lower to lower-middle income segments and reduce financial exclusion. Otudeko was speaking at the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) valedictory service organised for its outgoing president, Debola Osibogun in […]

The average monthly prices consumers paid for PMS across the 36 Stated FCT. State Label  Average Monthly Price for April Abia  191.67 Abuja  107 Adamawa  138.5 Akwa Ibom  180 Anambra  193.85 Bauchi  128.57 Bayelsa  186.25 Benue  134.5 Borno  179.33 Cross River  167.83 Delta  178.08 Ebonyi  166.43 Edo  194.29 Ekiti  202.78 Enugu  178.1 Gombe  182.22 Imo  […]Read More

World humanitarian group, the Rockefeller Foundation, Dalberg and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) have jointly launched an Innovation Challenge to uncover innovative solutions to increase cassava shelf life in Nigeria. This was made known at the just concluded World Economic Forum, (WEF) in Kigali, Rwanda. The Challenge will provide up to $1 million […]

The price of oil on Monday, moved up 2 percent, a significant increase adduced to be the highest since October, 2015. According to Goldman and Sachs in a report, the market had ended almost two years of oversupply and flipped to a deficit due to oil export crisis being faced by Nigeria. The report further […]

The Nigerian army on Monday, announced that it had arrested members of a militant group which has claimed responsibility for a wave of attacks on pipelines in the restive Delta region. According to the spokesman to the Nigerian Army, Col. Rabe Abubakar, those arrested were suspected to be part of the Niger Delta Avengers(NDA), it […]

The German Government has earmarked 3 million euros to help boast the agricultural and construction sectors of both Ogun and Plateau states. Horst Bauernfeind of the German agency, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), on Sunday, declared at a news briefing in Abeokuta. He said, that, Germany`s partnership with the governments of both states, is […]

Lead way Assurance Company Limited has declared, that the company has made an asset increase from N100.5 billion in 2014 to N137 billion in the year ended 2015. Acting Chairman,Jeremy Rowse, announced this recently, during the company’s 44th Annual General Meeting held in Lagos. According to him, Claims paid by the firm rose to N14.3 […]Read More

Obamacare is unconstitutional, a federal district judge ruled yesterday — at least as far as the law’s reimbursements to insurers are concerned. Under the Affordable Care Act, insurers must reduce co-payments and deductibles for low-income consumers. The federal government then reimburses insurers for those deductions, at the cost of several billion dollars a year. But, […]

There are a couple of things you need to run a business in this world: capital, a great idea, and a great in-house lawyer. It’s no secret that running a company in a highly litigious country can be a real task, particularly when faced with a wall of federal, state and local laws that must […]

Registered nurses employed by West Virginia’s Greenbrier Valley Medical Center and Bluefield Regional Medical Center will be allowed to unionize after suit against their employers, according to the Charleston Gazette-Mail. The decision will allow the National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC) to move forward on the nurses behalf. NLRA Again? Last year, the National Labor Relations […]

A new ruling out of the Sixth Circuit should give hope to juvenile criminal inmates looking to get their sentencing reviewed. The Court of Appeals applied the law of recently decided SCOTUS cases Miller and Montgomery to great effect, thereby all but ensuring a loosening of many juvenile life sentences. Both cases as well as […]

A divided Seventh Circuit affirmed both child abuse and felony gun use convictions against admitted abuser David Resnick in a split decision that implicates the admissibility of polygraph information — or rather, evidence of the defendant’s refusal to submit to a polygraph. But although the affirmation may strike many as being the proper outcome, the […]