The National Pension Commission, PenCom,has recovered over N10 billion unremitted pension contributions in principal and interest penalty.
The Commission would soon kick off pension audit of the books of over 200,000 existing employers in the country to determine those who failed to remit the mandatory 18 per cent pension contributions of workers to their Retirement Savings Account held by their respective Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs) the Nation learnt
Section 3 subsection (1) of the Pension Reform Act (PRA) 2014 states that there is an established law for any employer in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to have a Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) for payment of retirement benefits of employees to whom the scheme applies under the Act.
Section 4 subsection (1) states that the contribution for any employee shall be a minimum of 10 per cent by the employer and a minimum of eight per cent by the employee.
Section 11 subsection (1) states that every employee shall maintain a Retirement Savings Account (RSA) in his name with any PFA of his choice.
Subsection (3) states that the employer shall deduct at source the monthly contribution of the employee; and not later than seven working days from the day the employee is paid his salary; remit an amount comprising the employee’s contribution and the employer’s contribution to the Pension Fund Custodian specified by the PFA of the employee.
PenCom Head, Compliance and Enforcement, Alhaji Umar in an interview, said the commission decided to set up the pension audit system to complement its ongoing processes of ensuring compliance by employers in the country.
According yo him, the processes include engaging employers through warning letters, imposing two per cent monetary penalty on unremitted contributions, naming and shaming of erring employers and seeking litigation against them.
The removal of subsidy on household kerosene, has ignited fears that marketers will sell the scarce commodity as high as N250 per litre in some locations in the country, despite the open market price of N83/L stipulated by the government.
Some of the marketers and dealers who spoke to Sweetcrude disclosed that prior to the new price announced by the Federal Government, they sold the product between N100 and N150/Litre, but with the new price, they will sell at even higher prices.
Most of the filling stations visited in Abuja, the Federal Capital, claimed they have not yet purchased new stock since the announcement, while those that had the product were selling at N120/L.
For instance, Forte Oil in Central Area District, Area 3, said the last time they had the product was three months ago, Total in Area 11 and Area 3, said theirs was last sold two months ago, while all the private stations visited in the same areas did not have the product also.
Commenting on the price hike, ActionAid Nigeria, an anti-poverty agency, argued that this will further worsen the poverty situation in the country.
According to the Country Director, ActionAid, Ojobo Atuluku, the Federal Government’s decision to remove subsidy on kerosene signifies a continuation of a worrying trend of regressive policies that are emanating in recent times.
Atuluku noted that the product is mostly used by the poor who have no other means of preparing their meals and lighting up their homes in the face of unreliable electricity.
Executive Chairman of the agency, Tunde Fowler, made this known on Tuesday, February 2, at the opening of the Federal Inland Revenue Service 2016 Corporate Strategy Retreat, with the theme: “Optimizing non-oil tax revenue collection through compliance and enforcement,” in Abuja.
Fowler also announced that the FIRS had registered about 361,451 new corporate taxpayers within the last three months while targeting another 500,000 new corporate taxpayers by end of the first quarter of 2016.
He attributed the feat to the nationwide taxpayer registration, Value Added Tax (VAT) and Withholding Tax Monitoring (WTM) being undertaken by FIRS, alongside tax enlightenment and publicity campaigns, anchored by the FIRS Federal Engagement and Enlightenment Tax Teams, FEETT.
In addition to the above feat, he said the agency was leveraging heavily on technological tools to aid compliance by taxpayers and to enable the agency monitor and capture all taxable transactions as they occur.
The executive chairman, however, explained that the N4,957 trillion target for 2016 would be largely dependent on non-oil collection and in particular VAT, which will account for N2 trillion and CIT expected to account for Nl.877 trillion.
He said:“We have proposed a revenue target of N4.957 trillion for 2016. This target is largely dependent on non-oil collection and in particular, VAT and CIT.”
The minister of state for petroleum resources, Ibe Kachikwu, has revealed that the federal government would end crude swap in March.
According to the Minister, the nation would save $1 billion from the Direct-Sale–Direct-Purchase (DSDP) arrangement which will replace the crude-for-refined products exchange arrangement popularly referred to as crude swap.
Kachikwu also disclosed that the price modulation policy had rid the federal government of the burden of subsidy on imported petroleum products in January 2016.
The NNPC GMD made these disclosures on Tuesday, February 2, when he appeared before the House of Representatives Ad-Hoc Committee set up to investigate the Corporation’s offshore processing and crude swap arrangement for the period between 2010 to date at the National Assembly.
He explained that the DSDP was adopted to replace the Crude Oil Swap initiative and the Offshore Processing Arrangement so as to introduce and entrench transparency in the crude oil for product transaction by the Corporation in line with global best practices.
Under the old order, crude oil was exchanged for petroleum products through third party traders at a pre-determined yield pattern.
But Kachikwu, in a statement issued yesterday by the NNPC spokesman, Ohi Alegbe, noted that the DSDP option eliminates all the cost elements of middlemen and gives the NNPC the latitude to take control of sale and purchase of the crude oil transaction with its partners, adding that the initiative would save $1 billion for the federal government.
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has expressed confidence that power generation would leap with additional 2000 megawatts (MW) by the last quarter of 2016 following the various plans undertaken by the government in the sector.
Fashola spoke during the Ministry’s budget defence before the Senate Committee on Power and Mines noting that a lot has changed in the management of the sector in recent times.
Government has privatized power generation which has steered towards the full privatization of the sector with transmission aspect being managed by Manitoba International of Canada, he explained.
Assistant Director (Press), Power Ministry, Etore E. Thomas, in a statement quoted Fashola as saying that the 2016 budget focuses more on transmission, completion of ongoing projects, refurbishing power plants and tackling gas supply issues.
The Minister of State for Petroleum/Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr. Ibe. Kachikwu, on Tuesday, February 2, said the Federal Government did not pay any subsidy on petroleum products in January 2016.
This is coming as the federal government completely halts payment of subsidy on household kerosene.
Kachikw also stated that the country would save $1 billion (N200 billion) from the newly introduced Direct-Sale-Direct-Purchase, DSDP, arrangement in Nigeria’s crude oil for products transaction which is to commence next month.
He stated these when he appeared before the House of Representatives’ Ad-Hoc Committee set up to investigate the NNPC’s offshore processing and crude swap arrangement for the period from 2010 to date.
He explained that the DSDP was adopted to replace the Crude Oil Swap initiative and the Offshore Processing Arrangement so as to introduce and entrench transparency in the crude oil for product transaction by the corporation in line with global best practices.
No fewer than 30,000 bureaux de change (BDC) workers would be sacked within the first quarter of this year, out of about 200,000 workers are engaged in the sector.
The President, Association of Bureau De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON), Alhaji Aminu Gwadabe, who made this known yesterday, said the planned downsizing followed the continued loss of business by operators after the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) stoppage of weekly dollar sales to body.
The ABCON boss listed those to be affected as directors, auditors, operations managers and compliance officers, as well as chief executives.
The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele had announced a new foreign exchange policy which included the stoppage of weekly dollar sales to BDCs. He ordered the apex bank to henceforth discontinue sales of foreign exchange to BDCs.
“Operators in this segment of the market would now need to source their foreign exchange from autonomous sources. They must however, note that the CBN would deploy more resources to monitoring these sources to ensure that no operator is in violation of our anti-money laundering laws,” Emefiele said.
But Gwadabe said: “As law abiding citizens and partners in progress with the CBN, we respect the decision of the apex bank as the regulator of the banking industry and foreign exchange market where we operate. While we are not totally surprised by the decision, we, however, believe there are better ways of addressing the challenges in the foreign exchange market.”
He further said, BDC’s are not the problem of Nigeria as said by the CBN, but rather are solutions to the deep rooted problems of the economy, saying that the new CBN law will increase the devaluation of Naira.
The Nigerian and Italian government on Monday in Abuja signed an agreement on intelligence sharing, capacity building and provision of logistics that will enhance the operations of the Nigeria Police.
The signing of agreement, witnessed by President Muhammadu Buhari and the Italian Prime Minister, Mr. Matteo Renzi, in the State House was part of bilateral meeting between the two countries which covered issues on energy, security, agriculture, immigration, human and drug trafficking, infrastructure and education.
The agreement on enhancing cooperation between the Nigerian and Italian Police was signed by the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase and the Italian National Police Chief, Alessandro Pansa.
Speaking at the bilateral meeting, President Buhari said he was impressed with the relationship between Nigeria and Italy over the years, especially in the areas of security, construction, oil and gas and the exploration of solid minerals.
‘‘I am impressed by the resilience and commitment of the Italian business to Nigeria’s development shown by the Italian construction companies and companies in the oil sector.
‘‘I am happy to hear that an Italian oil company, Eni ltd, is investing 4 billion U S dollars in the coming three years in the economy spite of the downward spiral of oil prices,’’ the President said.
In his remarks, the Italian Prime Minister said his country will support Nigeria in the ongoing fight against corruption, terrorism and also encourage Italian companies to invest more in sectors that will enable growth and create jobs for Nigerians like power, agriculture and solid minerals.
Troops on Monday carried out an offensive and rescue operation around Mafa, Dikwa and Kala area of Borno State.
The areas were regularly terrorised by members of the Boko Haram sect.
The intervention of the military saw over 500 persons, mainly women and children being rescued.
The raid also led to the killing of about 50 Boko Haram fighters, while some weapons were equally recovered.
On Tuesday, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) said that it received a total of 7,328 complaints from both domestic and international air passengers in 2015.
This is contained in a statement issued by the NCAA’s Consumers Protection Department.
The statement said 7,281 complaints were received from passengers flying international routes while 47 were received from passengers on domestic routes.
According to the statement, Turkish Airlines recorded the highest number of complaints with 1,960 cases, while Air France recorded 1,113 complaints.
This was followed by British Airways and Etihad which recorded 988 and 677 complaints respectively.
It stated that 4,376 of such cases were successfully resolved with compensation paid by airlines to the affected passengers during the period under review.
Speaking on the statement, the General Manager, Public Relations, NCAA, Mr Sam Adurogboye, said the regulatory agency was committed toward the protection of the rights of passengers.
Adurogboye explained that complaints such as short landing (delay in arrival of passenger’s luggage), was a normal occurrence in civil aviation globally, and if such cases occured, passengers should report to the airlines counter at the airport and also demand compensation as the law demands but should repirt to the NCAA if their demands were not met rather than take laws into their hands.
Adurogboye, therefore, advised passengers to desist from taking the law into their hands, adding that it was a very wrong approach to redressing their complaints.
The acquisition of Visafone by MTN has been approved by the Nigerian Communications Commission in order to save Nigeria’s Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) networks.
NCC’s Executive Vice Chairman, Professor Umar Danbatta said this in Abuja. According to him, the NCC plans to sustain its revival effort on moribund CDMA networks to secure the investments in the sector.
He added that about 2.5 million jobs have been created by the telecoms sector over the years. He estimates that the sector contributed 9.5% to the GDP in 2014.
Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili on Monday charged President Muhammadu Buhari to always tell Nigerians the truth when it comes to insurgency so as to stop creating doubts in the minds of the citizenry.
Ezekwesili who is the leader of the BringBackOurGirls, BBOG, movement made the call at the group’s usual sit-out in Abuja.
Ezekwesili said, “The government cannot afford to go to the old ways where lies were fed to the people. Let there be truthfulness. Government should not create a trust deficit syndrome because it will be difficult to mend. Everything that the government is doing concerning the war, they should tell the truth. We will get used to it and join in the solution.”
Stating that BBOG will continue to demand for the return of the kidnapped Chibok girls, Ezekwesili beckoned on the President to fulfill the promise he made to the parents of the kidnapped girls.
Lagos state Governor, Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode has ordered sand dredgers operating in waterways in the state to stop their operations and vacate the sites immediately.
Mr Ade Akinsanya, the Commissioner for Waterfront and Infrastructure, relayed the governor’s order at a closed door meeting he held on Monday with the dredgers from Ebute-Ilaje in Alausa, Ikeja.
“He also ordered the dredgers in Ebute-Ilaje to evacuate their dredging equipment from the environment within 72 hours.
“The idea is to ensure adequate security of lives and property in the state.
“Dredgers in the state need to renew their operational permit annually, but majority of them have not renewed their permit for many years.
“The state government and the National Inland Waterways Authority are the licensing authorities to give directive on such operation on the waterways’’.
Commenting, Mr Kazeem Adesola, the Chairman of Ebute-Ilaje Dredgers Association, appealed to the governor to reconsider the decision.
Adesola said that there were lots of challenges involved in the relocation of the dredging equipment. “We are ready to obey the state government’s directive, but we will face a lot of constraints moving our equipment away from the place.
“In fact, 200 men will find it difficult to carry one of the dredging machines and we have over 100 operating machines. “Each of those machines costs N550, 000 and they are seven feet in height,’’ he said.
The order followed an uproar between two communities in Bariga area of the state, Folarin and Ebute-Ilaje over dredging sites. With the development, the government said it was out to check the activities of hoodlums in the area.
FCMB Group Plc (FCMB) has recorded an increase revenue of N109.3 billion for the nine-months ended September 2015, an increase of two per cent from N106.7 billion for the same period in 2014. The bank also recorded a profit before tax (PBT) of N2.6 billion for the period, as against N16.8 billion for the nine-months of 2014.
FCMB’s net interest income for the period ended September 2014 stood at N48.7 billion, as against N49.1 billion for the same period prior year. Operating expenses was up three per cent Year-on-Year (YoY) to N50.5 billion, for the nine-months ended September 2015, compared to N48.9 billion for the same period the previous year- a slower growth rate than inflation rate, underscoring FCMB’s successful cost saving initiatives.
Total assets was up 12 per cent YoY to N1.17 trillion as at September 2015 compared to N1.04 trillion as at September 2014, but flat Year-to-Date. First City Monument Bank Limited, the commercial and retail banking subsidiary of FCMB Group Plc, also increases loans and advances to its customers to N568.0 billion as at September 2015, as against N565.0 billion the previous year.
According to the managing director of FCMB Group Plc, Mr Peter Obaseki said, “The group’s nine months’ profit before tax, dropped YoY to N2.6 billion, with the significant earnings drop largely coming from our commercial banking activities. This was caused by a specific impairment of N5.4 billion on a contracted receivable with a reputable and creditworthy going concern, that we are hopeful of recovering and additional impairments of N6 billion on our loan book.
Irrespective of a weak macroeconomic environment, the priority in the coming months will be on cost efficiency – especially cost of risk – capital preservation, loan and receivable recoveries and sustaining the momentum in our retail banking activities.”
The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo stated that Nieria has all it needs to develop and sustain a solid economy, saying that the dwindling oil prices will not affect the country. He promised to facilitate pre-investment approvals for would be investors to the country.
According to Prof. Osinbajo, the President has already given the mandate to ensure that a conducive environment is created for business investments in the country, and he added that work has already started with government looking at the different aspects involved.
He revealed that the entire power value chain would be well compensated in order to produce the needed results.
He also restated the commitment of the Buhari administration to creating jobs through businesses and direct action of the government to engage the youths. He said the 500,000 teaching positions for unemployed graduates is also included in the 2016 budget to help engae the youths in paid voluntary occupations in their communities.
However, the Federal Government will also create opportunity for about 370,000 youths who are not graduates to receive vocational training and acquire skills, while one million artisans and market women would receive soft loans through the Bank of Industry as already proposed in the proposed 2016 budget.
(L-R) Country Director, PLAN International, Dr. Hussaini Abdu, Corporate Affairs Director, Unilever Nigeria, Soromidayo George, Vice President, Regulatory & Corporate Affairs, Etisalat Nigeria, Ibrahim Dikko, Lead Consultant, Thistle Praxis, Ini Onuk and MD/CEO, Galaxy Backbone, Yusuf Kazaure at the Sustainable Conversations thought leadership series sponsored by Etisalat Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday.
Nigeria’s most innovative telecoms operator, Etisalat, has called on Governments across all levels in the country to prioritize meeting the critical development needs of the nation in their renewed efforts at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals agenda of the United Nations.
Vice President, Regulatory and Corporate Affairs, Etisalat Nigeria, Ibrahim Dikko, made the call recently in Abuja while speaking at the seventh edition of the thought leadership breakfast series, Sustainable Conversations, organised by Thistle Praxis Consulting in partnership with Etisalat Nigeria.
Dikko lauded the UN-backed Sustainable Development Goals agenda, but noted that a country like Nigeria has to evaluate and prioritize which goals constitute its most pressing needs and go for such without taking its eyes off the others in the UN-backed 17-goals agenda block.
His words, “The SDGs are lofty and ambitious targets. I think the way around this is for countries to look for what is the most critical for them. Each country has its own priorities. For a country like ours that has a very young, up and coming population, our primary concern for now should be to focus on education, health, security, peace and justice, access to facilities, etc. That is not to say we should ignore the other goals and just focus on these. We should prioritize and start with what is achievable now given the resources at our disposal.”
(L-R) Corporate Affairs Director, Unilever Nigeria, Soromidayo George, Vice President, Regulatory & Corporate Affairs, Etisalat Nigeria, Ibrahim Dikko, Lead Consultant, Thistle Praxis, Ini Onuk, MD/CEO, Galaxy Backbone, Yusuf Kazaure and Acting Regional Coordinator, Africa, UN Millennium Campaign/SDGs Action Cmpaign, Hilary Ogbonna at the Sustainable Conversations thought leadership series sponsored by Etisalat Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday.(R-L) Vice President, Regulatory & Corporate Affairs, Etisalat Nigeria, Ibrahim Dikko presenting a plaque to the representative of the Honourable Minister for Science and Deputy Director, Research and Statistics, Ministry of Science and Tech, Mr. Anyanwu Anselem at the Sustainable Conversations thought leadership series sponsored by Etisalat Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday.(R-L) Vice President, Regulatory & Corporate Affairs, Etisalat Nigeria, Ibrahim Dikko presenting a plaque to Prof. Labode Popoola, Director, Centre for Sustainable Development (CESDEV), University of Ibadan at the Sustainable Conversations thought leadership series sponsored by Etisalat Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday.(L-R) Country Director, PLAN International, Dr. Hussaini Abdu, Vice President, Regulatory & Corporate Affairs, Etisalat Nigeria, Ibrahim Dikko and MD/CEO, Galaxy Backbone, Yusuf Kazaure sharing a moment of laughter at the Sustainable Conversations thought leadership series sponsored by Etisalat Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday.
While assuring of Etisalat’s commitment to strengthening partnerships with governments and their agencies towards achieving the development goals, Dikko disclosed that the company is leading a quiet revolution in providing telecommunications-focused education with training of students and lecturers in that field.
“When we started operations in 2008, we realized that in our Universities, there were only such programmes like petroleum, electrical, mechanical and chemical engineering, but there was no telecommunications engineering. In this 21st century, there is no way we can go forward and build capacity if we did not try and address that. So we started a partnership with ABU, Zaria to sponsor students to Masters’ Degree programmes in telecommunications engineering in partnership with Plymouth University, UK and the Etisalat Academy, UAE. We are also training some lecturers at PhD level so there can be capacity for knowledge sharing,” he said.
Also speaking, Country Director, PLAN International, Dr. Hussaini Abdu, who expressed delight at the prospects inherent in the goals, asserted that the attainment of the development goals can be fast-tracked with the active involvement of the organised private sector and other relevant segments of the Nigerian society.
Other discussants included the Acting Regional Coordinator, Africa, UN Millennium Campaign/SDGs Action Campaign, Hilary Ogbonna; the Corporate Affairs Director, Unilever Nigeria, Soromidayo George; MD/CEO, Galaxy Backbone, Yusuf Kazaure; Deputy Director, Research and Statistics, Ministry of Science and Tech, Mr. Anyanwu Anselem representing the Honourable Minister for Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu and Director, Centre for Sustainable Development (CESDEV), University of Ibadan, Prof. Labode Popoola.
Allianz brand tops the Insurance Top 50 ranking for third year in a row
Allianz is the only insurer to rank amongst the world’s 50 strongest brands in 2016
Brand value of Allianz at €18.6bn, up 8.1% from 2015
Allianz has consolidated its position as the most valuable insurance brand in this year’s Brand Finance Global 500 ranking. Holding the pole position for three consecutive years, it has become the only insurer to be included in the Top 50 of the world’s strongest brands in 2016.
As a result of Allianz’ strong premium growth, the Group’s brand value increased by 8.1% from €17.2bn to €18.6bn (US$ 20.3bn), putting Allianz at number 43 among the top 500 global brands (up from 44th place in 2015).
In the 2016 ranking, Brand Finance recognized Allianz’ resilience in a challenging environment and the Group’s strong financial performance driven by its flagship brand, ‘customer centricity’ and ‘digital by default’ approach. This made it also one of the most brand driven financial services companies in this year’s ranking.
Christian Deuringer, Head of Global Brand Management at Allianz, said: “This excellent ranking shows that our flagship brand strategy as well as our clear focus on the customer and on digitalization are building trust and resonating with our clients around the globe. We would like to thank them for their growing loyalty.”
Assessing the future potential of Allianz, Brand Finance recognized that the Group’s customer-centric approach is capable of driving value and building on existing scale. It also considered the Allianz brand to be particularly well-positioned to benefit from growth opportunities presented by digitalization-driven changes in the insurance sector.
Allianz operates in over 70 countries. It has been operating on the African continent for over 100 years and is already among the leaders of the market in South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, Tunisia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central Africa, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Madagascar, Mali, Republic of Congo, Senegal and Togo.
The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has warned corps members against participating in the National Service and attending the Law School at the same time.
“It is illegal and unacceptable”, the Corps warned on Monday, at the 2016 Annual Management Conference of the Scheme, in Asaba, the Delta State capital.
The conference noted that “the NYSC Act provides for uninterrupted service year, and advised prospective Corps members to choose which one to defer between National Service and Law School attendance instead of attempting to combine both.
Parents of prospective Corps members have also been advised by the conference to allow their children take decisions as adults and avoid discouraging them from accepting postings to any locations in the country.”
According to the resolutions reached: “Management also noted the return of normalcy in some states whose orientation camps were closed due to insecurity, and expressed readiness to make phased reopening of the camps after due consultations with security agencies and governments of the affected states.”
The conference resolved to deepen engagements with key stakeholders, including the security and intelligence community and traditional rulers on matters of security and general well-being of Corps members.
Also, from the 2016 Batch ‘A’ Orientation, Corps members would be sensitized on national attitudinal change, while posting to places of primary assignment would be reviewed to meet contemporary need
Foremost financial institution, GTBank has restated its commitment to continue investing in both the academic and social well being on Nigerian university undergraduates, as it unveils the latest Mini Cooper winner. Hassan Jamiu Olawale who emerged winner of the 3rd Season of the GTCrea8 Mini Cooper giveaway special.
At the events draw which held recently at the GTBank head office. Hassan Jamiu Olawale, a model and student of Kwara State University became the proud owner of a brand new Mini Cooper car.
Since the launch of the campaign, two lucky GTCrea8 customers have been rewarded with a brand new mini cooper car. In 2013, Shalom Wigwe Elisha – a 2nd year student of medicine at the University of Lagos became the very first recipient of the prestigious car. Maryam Adebiyi – a student of Lagos state Polytechnic was the next to win the car in 2014.
The aim of this Giveaway Mini Cooper giveaway is to appreciate and encourage GTcrea8 eSavers account holders in Nigeria and diaspora. The initiative also seeks to inspire young people to cultivate the habit of saving. Last year, millions of undergraduates from across Nigeria took part in this annual campus activation.
In a chat session with this season’s winner, elated Olawale revealed “I come from a family of four and currently a student at Kwara State University, department of Banking and Finance. I am a model (MR. KWARA INT’L CHARISMATIC 2015). I do not have much hobbies but I pride myself at solving problems around me especially business related puzzles. One of my recent business solutions is ICHOPPY a feeding app for students. The other is called SALUBATA a model invention of the past
“I heard about gtcrea8 from sources that include newspapers, online browsing and most especially there was a time I had issues with buying goods online. These made me go to my bank (GTBank) to enlightening me more about Internet transactions”.
“The GTCrea8 account has come in very handy in many and different forms. Fashion and style has been my tool to get people to listen to what I have to say when it comes to my ideas and business motives. Since most of my shopping is done online the GTcrea8 acct has made it very easy and fast indeed, therefore creating a seamless experience for me every time I shop, it usefulness can therefore not be overemphasized.”
The GTCrea8 account is a trendy, card-based interest bearing account designed especially for undergraduates. It is part of the Bank’s value proposition to deliver banking in a different way to young people by engaging them with fun, exciting and interactive activities such as musical Campus Storms and master classes which resonates with their unique demographics. This year account holders of GTcrea8 account can look forward to yet another exciting season of the mini cooper giveaway as the Bank is set to commence the 4th edition
About 110,048 children were immunised during the last round of polio immunisation against polio virus in Dutse local government area of Jigawa.
Alhaji Suraj Muhammad, the Manager, National Programme on Immunisation (NPI) said that the council received enough doses of Oral Polio Vaccines (OPVs) for the smooth conduct of the exercise.
He also applauded the efforts of religious and traditional leaders in the council in ensuring the success of the immunisation programme.
The council’s Information Officer, Malam Abdullahi Yakubu, also commended the local government for its support to the successful conduct of the exercise.
Muhammad expressed satisfaction over the impressive turnout of children during the exercise and commended parents for their full cooperation.
