LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS) – Azuri Technologies, a leader in pay-as-you-go solar technology in Africa, and First Bank of Nigeria Limited today announced a unique partnership that will help deepen financial inclusion in Nigeria while bringing affordable, reliable and clean power to millions of Nigerians. Under the partnership, Azuri’s solar home TV product will be…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a case reminiscent of the MMM saga, Canada’s leading cryptocurrency exchange company has said it cannot immediately repay customers’ $190m because its founder died with their passwords. According to the Sky News, founder of QuadrigaCX, 30-year-old Gerald Cotten, died of alleged complications with Crohn’s disease during a trip to India where…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS) — Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote said he’s on schedule to finish by next year his $15 billion oil refinery, which will be one of the world’s biggest, despite analysts saying the timeline is ambitious. “There are quite a lot of challenges, but we’re moving,” Dangote told reporters at a conference in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) says 35 stockbroking firms have been expelled. In a notice published in Punch newspaper, the exchange said the decision was reached after a special meeting of its national council on December 13. The NSE said the public should not deal with the expelled firms in relation to…
LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian businessman, Femi Otedola, has agreed to sell the entirety of his 75 per cent direct and indirect shareholdings in Forte Oil. In a letter sent to the Nigerian Stock Exchange and signed by Akinleye Olagbende, the general counsel of Forte Oil, Otedola said he was divesting from the company in order…
LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) has announced the Final Investment Decision (FID) on the Assa North Gas Development Project in Imo State, a major momentum to the domestic gas aspiration of the Federal Government for increased power generation and industrialisation. At peak production, the project is expected to…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) has emerged the Local Content Operator of the Year 2018 at the Annual Oil Industry Achievement Awards Dinner of the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN,) an association of indigenous technical oilfield service companies in the upstream and downstream sectors. This marks the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Leading retail lender, Diamond bank is set to reward over 1000 customers in the third DiamondXtra season 10 quarterly draw which will take place on Friday, December 7, 2018 at its Mobolaji Bank- Anthony branch in Ikeja, Lagos. Addressing newsmen at the bank’s Head Office in Lagos, Osita Ede, Head, Consumer Liability…