Author: Charles Humphreys

The Senate on Thursday approved death penalty for dealers and importers of cocaine, heroin and other hard drugs into the country. The proposed capital punishment also applies to manufacturing, trafficking, dealing in or delivery of hard drugs by any means. The Senate arrived at the resolution on the floor of the red chamber after deliberations […]

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The Board of Directors at Zenith Bank Plc has announced the appointments of Mr. Adamu Lawani and Mr. Louis Odom as Executive Directors of the bank, as reported by Nairametrics on Wednesday. Additionally, the board has approved the appointment of Pamela Yough as a Non-Executive Director of the bank. These appointments have been authorized by the Central Bank of Nigeria. […]

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Over $1.30bn is the value of cleared USD/Naira-Settled Non-Deliverable Forwards open contracts due this month on the FMDQ securities. This was disclosed in the latest FMDQ report published on that market segment on Tuesday, May 7. The contracts are expected to be settled on May 29. Cleared Naira-Settled Non-Deliverable Forwards are contracts where parties agree […]

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Four directors of United Bank for Africa have acquired about 42,336,281 units of the banking group shares valued at N1.12bn in transactions on the Nigerian Exchange Limited. This was disclosed in corporate notices on directors dealing filed with the NGX late Wednesday. The securities of UBA had led the volume chart of the NGX in […]

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