Month: August 2025

Leadway Assurance Company Limited and Ecobank Nigeria Limited have entered into a strategic bancassurance partnership. This alliance aims to deliver integrated insurance offerings to Ecobank’s internal and external stakeholders, including employees, customers, and small business owners. The partnership’s launch on August 1, 2025, marks a significant step in advancing financial inclusion by embedding insurance access […]

Linkage Assurance Plc reported a 50 per cent increase in revenue to N22.2 billion in 2024, compared to N14.84 billion in 2023. Profit Before Tax (PBT) stood at N5.3 billion in 2024, down from N5.5 billion in 2023, a slight decrease of three per cent year over year (YOY). In the company’s financial results presented […]

Heirs Insurance Group has partnered with influencers in the first cohort of its inaugural Creators Fellowship. The initiative was created to drive insurance education and financial literacy across Nigeria as part of its bold plan to simplify insurance education and boost insurance literacy in the country. The cohort features two outstanding digital storytellers who will […]

The anti-cultism operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command have stormed a shrine where they arrested five suspected ritual killers and recovered women’s menstrual pads stored in two coffins in Abak local government area of the state. Other incriminating items recovered from the shrine included several pictures of their victims and prospective victims, charms […]

Renowned financial analyst and managing director of Financial Derivatives Company Limited, Bismarck Rewane, will, on Thursday, lead a discussion at the 29th Annual Conference of the League of Airport and Aviation Correspondents (LAAC) scheduled to hold on Thursday, 7 August 2025. The edition tagged “Aviation Financing in Nigeria: The Risks, Opportunities and Prospects” has drawn […]

‎Stakeholders of Ohafia local government area of Abia State have initiated moves to ensure a candidate from the area wins Abia North senatorial seat currently occupied by Orji Kalu in 2027. ‎The stakeholders comprised elders, youths, women, religious leaders, community and student leaders as well as political party members, professionals in various fields, and concerned […]

Rivers State government has applauded an indigenous oil firm, Renaissance America Energy Company Limited, for upgrading the Obio Cottage Hospital, Rumuobiakani, Port Harcourt, to transit from paper documentation of patient information to digital documentation for effective and accurate record keeping. Acting permanent secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Vincent Wachuku, gave the commendation yesterday while commissioning […]

Regalo Hope Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, has trained over 1,000 Federal University of Technology, Owerri, FUTO students on digital footprint, cloud computing, professional positioning, communication skills, and other digital and vocational intelligence. The training, held at the school, was organised in partnership with the FUTO Career Service Centre and included students and lecturers from various […]

Operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command have smashed a kidnapping syndicate and successfully neutralised the gang leader in the ongoing offensive against criminal elements in the state. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP TImfon John, who disclosed this to journalists yesterday at the State Command’s headquarters, Ikot Akpanabia […]

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Bayelsa State has announced that the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise will resume on August 18, 2025, with both online and physical registration options available for residents. This was disclosed by the resident electoral commissioner (REC), Mallam Isah Shaka Ehimeakhe, while addressing journalists yesterday at the Prof. Mahmood Yakubu […]