Polaris Bank has continued its commitment to empowering the Nigerian girl-child through health education and essential support, as it distributed hygiene essentials to female students of Kuramo and Victoria Island Junior and Senior Secondary Schools, Lagos. According to the bank,…

The Jito Foundation, the nonprofit organization facilitating the development of the Jito platform, said it will return to the United States, citing “clearer rules” for digital assets in the country.Jito is a maximal extractable value (MEV) infrastructure builder for the…

Seplat Energy Plc has appointed Saidu Aliyu Mohammed and Larry Ettah as independent non-executive directors, effective from 1 January 2026, as the company moves to strengthen its board and corporate governance. This is contained in a disclosure signed by its…

The Aurora Tech Award has unveiled its Top 100 founders to watch for 2026. In a statement made available to The PUNCH, the company noted that this year, a record 3,400 applications were submitted from 127 countries, reflecting unprecedented growth…

Today in crypto: Caroline Pham, the acting chair of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is set to leave the regulator to join MoonPay. Meanwhile, HashKey debuted on Hong Kong’s HKEX following a $206 million oversubscribed initial public offering, and…

Seplat Energy Plc has appointed Saidu Mohammed and Larry Ettah as Independent Non-Executive Directors, effective 1 January 2026. The appointments were announced by the company in a statement issued in Lagos and London on Wednesday. According to Seplat Energy, the…

Coinbase is launching stock trading and prediction markets as the crypto exchange looks beyond digital assets to chase its ambition of creating an “everything app.”Coinbase head of consumer and business products, Max Branzburg, announced at the company’s year-end conference that…

A civil society group, Rights for All International (RAI), has sued President Bola Tinubu to force him to suspend Farouk Ahmed, the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), over allegations of corruption and…

The experts at the financial and economic intelligence platform, Proshare, have warned that 2026, being a pre-election year, will test the strength of recent economic reforms and shape the country’s medium-term growth trajectory, even as it projects a cautious path…

The Competition Commission of India, the regulatory body responsible for promoting fair competition in the country, has approved Coinbase acquiring a minority stake in cryptocurrency platform CoinDCX.In a Tuesday notice, the regulator said it had approved Coinbase Global’s minority stake…