2018-09-22 4:56 AM
| by Nigeria Compliancehub
The Central Bank of Nigeria on Friday revoked the operating licence of Skye Bank Plc. Governor of Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele, made the announcement at a press briefing in Lagos. He also said a bridge bank known as Polaris Bank had been created to assume the… Read more
2018-09-18 11:19 AM
| by Nigeria Compliancehub
The National Pension Commission said it had released N86.7 billion to sacked workers of various companies who participated in the Contributory Pension Scheme. Acting Director-General, PenCom, Mrs Aisha Dahir-Umar, who disclosed this on Monday in Lagos, said the amount was for the settlement of 275,172 disengaged… Read more
2018-09-06 1:48 PM
| by Nigeria Compliancehub
Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) in its bid to extend the Integrated Tax Administration System (ITAS) initiative to all of its processes, recently indicated its intention to fully automate the withholding tax (WHT) system in Nigeria. Pursuant to this initiative, FIRS has started inviting taxpayers for reconciliation of unutilized WHT… Read more
2018-09-05 2:30 PM
| by Nigeria Compliancehub
The decision by the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) to revise backward the recapitalisation deadline from the January 1, 2019, it had earlier fixed, to October 1, 2018, is causing ripples in the industry, some operators are threatening legal action against NAICOM.
This is just as the Nigeria Insurers Association (NIA)… Read more
2018-09-05 12:45 PM
| by Nigeria Compliancehub
The Federal Government has asked MTN Nigeria to pay taxes of $2bn (N700bn), six days after the Central Bank of Nigeria ordered it to repatriate $8.13 billion ‘illegally taken out of the country’. The telecom company said in a brief statement that the Attorney General’s office gave “notice of an… Read more
2018-08-31 2:57 PM
| by Nigeria Compliancehub
Victims of the defunct Savannah Bank have been assured that their funds which have been hanging for years, will be duly returned. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) gave this assurance at the 3rd biennial Bank Customers Summit.
Speaking at the summit, the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, who was represented by T.Y Ahmed,… Read more
2018-01-04 11:59 AM
| by Nigeria Compliancehub
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that the e-dividend registration exercise would continue seamlessly in spite of the expiration of the December 31st 2017 free registration deadline.
It would be recalled that the e-dividend free registration expired on December 31, 2017.
Dr. Abdul Zubair, Acting Director General of SEC, who…
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2017-12-15 3:45 PM
| by Nigeria Compliancehub
The Director-General of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Osita Aboloma, has said that the agency’s newly introduced Product Authentication Mark (PAM) will raise the patronage of made-in-Nigeria products and boost the country’s economic diversification drive from oil to non-oil sector and check substandard products.
2017-12-15 3:40 PM
| by Nigeria Compliancehub
The Federal Government will rake in an additional N6billion from the implementation of the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS) before the end of the year.
The sum is in addition to the N17billion already yielded by the scheme within six months.
This was disclosed in Lagos on Wednesday, by the…
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2017-11-28 12:05 PM
| by Nigeria Compliancehub
A new Code of Corporate Governance approved by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has stipulated that bank directors with non-performing loans (NPLs) are to either quit or be sacked.
This was made known during the weekend by the Director, Bank Examination Department at the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Adedapo…
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