Dr Adesola Adeduntan, Chief Executive Officer, FirstBank Nigeria Limited. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), yesterday, sacked the boards of First Bank Nigeria Limited and its holding company, FBN Holdco, citing insider abuse and corporate governance breakdown as reasons. The apex bank also set up interim boards, reinstalling the ousted Managing Director/ Chief Executive, Dr. Sola Adeduntan. The interim board chairman of the bank, according to CBN, will be Tunde Hassan-Odukale. Other members of the bank subsidiary are Tokunbo Martins, Uche Nwokedi, Adekunle Sonola, Isioma Ogodazi, Ebenezer Olufowose, Ishaya Elijah Dodo, Gbenga Shobo, Remi Oni and Abdullahi Ibrahim. The board of the holding company is chaired by Remi Babalola while the managing director is U.K. Eke. Other members are Dr. Fatade Abiodun Oluwole, Kofo Dosekun, Remi Lasaki, Dr. Alimi Abdulrasaq, Ahmed Modibbo, Khalifa Imam and Peter Aliogo.
By Nkiruka Nnorom
A total of 44 companies quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, may face sanctions from the Exchange for failing the timeline in rendition of 2020 audited financial results.
Periodic and timely rendition of financial results to the NSE, is one of the key elements in the post-listing requirements of the Exchange which attracts penalties.
The companies, which include, Conoil Plc, Oando Plc, Wema Bank Plc, Okomu Oil Plc and Presco Plc among others, failed to meet the March 31, 2021 cut off date (the 90 day timeline required by the rule of the Exchange for quoted companies to file their audited full year result) and will now face financial sanctions as enshrined in the rules of the Exchange.
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By Nkiruka Nnorom
A total of 44 companies quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, may face sanctions from the Exchange for failing the timeline in rendition of 2020 audited financial results.
Periodic and timely rendition of financial results to the NSE, is one of the key elements in the post-listing requirements of the Exchange which attracts penalties.
The companies, which include, Conoil Plc, Oando Plc, Wema Bank Plc, Okomu Oil Plc and Presco Plc among others, failed to meet the March 31, 2021 cut off date (the 90 day timeline required by the rule of the Exchange for quoted companies to file their audited full year result) and will now face financial sanctions as enshrined in the rules of the Exchange.
The operationability of the fund is anchored on the 2020 Finance Act (Amendment) Bill signed on December 31, 2020, by President Muhammadu Buhari which provides that the Debt Management Office (DMO) shall supervise the operations of the fund.
The act, which has the commencement date of January 1, 2021, introduced significant changes to some tax and regulatory laws in Nigeria, including the introduction of COVID-19 incentives, alongside other changes.
The Finance Act 2020 Part XV, states that: “Subject to Section 44 (1) (h) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, there is established by the trust, as a sub-fund of the Crisis Intervention Fund, an unclaimed Funds Trust Fund.”