Month: September 2020

NBS Set To Commence National Business Sample Census After Two Decades

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), with the support of the World Bank, has commenced the process of implementing the 2020 National Business Sample Census (NBSC) in Nigeria. This is exactly two decades and two years after the last business census of establishments in the country. The National Business Sample Census is expected to commence…

PreDiagnosis Signs Telehealth Partnership Agreement With Medicard

PreDiagnosis International, Nigeria’s leading grassroots telehealth service provider, has announced a partnership agreement with lifestyle-cum- Health Management Organisation, Medicard Nigeria. This is to further drive the spread of adoption of its innovative telehealth platform among the poor and vulnerable in the country. Medicard Health Management is a Global Lifestyle HMO Company with presence in Philippines,…

Promises FG Made To Avert NLC, TLC Strike

Following extensive deliberations between the Federal Government and Organised Labour (NLC, TUC and others), the following decisions were been reached between the two parties which paved way for the suspended strike. “The parties agreed to set up a Technical Committee on Electricity Tariff policy that is being chaired by the Mr Festus Keyamo, Minister of…

Heritage Bank, PWC, Deloitte Canvass Use Of Tech To Rescind Effects Of Covid-19, Tackle Fraud

Heritage Bank Plc, Nigeria’s Most Innovative Banking Service provider has called on internal auditors of banks to adopt the various digital technologies to prevent fraud and annul the adverse impact of Covid-19 on the financial ecosystem. Speaking at the just concluded 47th Quarterly Meeting of the Association of Chief Audit Executives of Banks in Nigeria…

Labour Suspends Planned Strike After Deal With Government

The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress have suspended the strike scheduled to commence today (Monday) following an agreement reached with the Federal Government at a meeting which started at 8.30pm on Sunday and ended at 2:50am this morning. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, read the five-page communiqué signed by…

Refund Cost of Using Presidential Jet for Your PA’s Wedding, Reno Tells Buhari

Former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan,  Reno Omokri, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to refund to the national treasury the cost of using Presidential jet to ferry his representatives to his Personal Assistant, Bashir Ahmed’s wedding in Katsina on Friday. In a statement by Reno Omokri, he stated that: “A Presidential jet is not the…