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Wema Bank’s H1 numbers reveal an institution that is growing rapidly, but whose growth is accompanied by falling earnings per share, a sharp contraction in fee income, rising loan-impairment charges, deteriorating cost efficiency and loan expansion that is running considerably faster than deposit mobilisation.

The Federal Government set up the NYSC in 1973 to foster cultural diversity, patriotism driven by shared values and orientation, as well as solidarity that breeds mutual trust, especially among a nubile and virile population still burning with generational zeal.

The warning was contained in the group’s first-half 2026 Economic Report, which identified tight external financing conditions as a major risk to the continent’s economic outlook despite continued resilience in economic activity.

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communications, Sunday Dare, asserted on Sunday in response to Atiku’s criticism of NNPC Retail’s 30-day petrol price discount and the Federal Government’s price-modulation framework.

Friday’s recovery offered Nigerian shareholders some relief, but it did not erase the week’s losses.

Universities in the United Kingdom are withdrawing admission offers already made to Nigerian students as a tightening of immigration rules forces institutions to scale back recruitment from countries experiencing high study visa refusal rates.

The development has left the electoral fate of ADC candidate, Ambassador Nkoyo Toyo, and her NDC counterpart, John Upan Odey Jr., uncertain, with the latter blaming what he called a “bureaucratic error” and announcing moves to engage INEC for a resolution.

Announced amid renewed pressure from high fuel prices, rising transport costs and persistent household hardship, the initiative is being presented by the government as a targeted intervention to cushion the impact of global crude oil price volatility without returning the country to the costly petrol subsidy regime abolished in May 2023.

The lists published on the INEC website on Saturday omitted the names of governorship candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party for Ogun and Gombe states, Ladi Adebutu and Isa Ali Pantami, respectively. Among the 13 candidates in Ogun and 16 in Gombe, none of them are from the PDP.

Unilever Nigeria Plc reported revenue of N119.92 billion for the six months ended June 30, 2026, up 22.2 percent from N98.10 billion in the corresponding period of 2025. Gross profit rose 30 percent to N54.74 billion, while operating profit increased 29.5 percent to N24.36 billion.