Business

Edo State Deputy Governor, Honourable Philip Shuaibu, has called for systematic overhaul of the banking sector in Nigeria that will redirect their focus on the development of small businesses (SMEs) in the country, inline with present economic realities. Shuaibu made the call in Lagos recently while receiving an outstanding Humanitarian Service Award presented to him by the Rotary Club of …

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Ecobank Nigeria continues to storm tertiary institutions with its very strong and beneficial digital banking proposition targeted at the youth and the young at heart. The Ecobank Xpress Campus Storm which kicked off at Laspotech, Ikorodu campus has journeyed  through 11 campuses including Unilag, Yabatech, UNN, UI, OAU etc. In the words of Ikechukwu Kalu, Head, Consumer Marketing “It has …

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The much anticipated TEDxLagos event tagged ‘Spotlight’ took place recently at the Agip Hall of the MUSON Centre in Onikan, Lagos. TEDx is a global platform created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth sharing”. The TEDxLagos event was a celebration of brilliant ideas and inspiring talks. Members of the local and international TEDx communities, including Michael Ryan from …

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Dangote Industries Limited (DIL) and German Equipment Manufacturers Association (VDMA) have formally opened the Train-the-Trainer (Didactic & Rhetoric) Course (ToT) under the Dangote VDMA Initiative on Technical Education & Vocational Training (TVET).  The programme which took place in Dangote Acadamy Complex, Obajana, Kogi State recently, is a culmination of a project, which started on February 10th, 2016 with the signing …

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The Lagos audition of the Heritage Bank Plc’s foremost entrepreneurial reality TV show, popularly called the Next Titan, was held with no fewer than 1000 contestants in attendance. The enthusiastic contestants trooped to Excellence Hotel, Ogba, venue of the audition weekend, with expectation that luck would smile on them to win. Overwhelmed with the turnout, Chibuike Agu, Head, Digital and …

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Olabode Adaramola The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the June/July 2018 Senior Secondary Schools ertificate Examination results Out of the 1,041,536 candidates who sat for the examinations, only 742,455 of the candidates got at least five credits including Mathematics and English Language. In a statement signed by the acting Registrar of the Council, Abubakar Gana, he said a total …

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Leading retail bank, Diamond Bank Plc, has again reiterated its support for Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (SME) as the Bank announced its disbursement of over N1 billion under the cash flow-based SME lending scheme. Launched in January 2017 in partnership with the Women’s World Banking (WWB), the scheme features the Cash Flow-based MSME Lending Methodology, which has a strategic focus …

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By Ariwera Ibibo-Howells, Yenagoa The  medical director of the Bayelsa state government own veterinary hospital, Yenagoa , Dr Emara-obebh Ibegu has described the animal care health infrastructure as one amongst the best projects the restoration Government of the Serieke Dickson administration has provided for the state. Speaking with our correspondent yesterday in Yenagoa, the state capital, Dr Ibegu maintained that …

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First Bank of Nigeria Limited said its re-launched Firstmonie agent network can now be found in every neighbourhood in the country. As part of its efforts to drive financial inclusion and deepen financial services across the nooks and crannies of Nigeria through cost effective channels, the Firstmonieagent network was relaunched in July 2017 with a pilot scheme of in six densely populated states of Lagos, Oyo, Kano, Abuja FCT, Anambra and Rivers. …

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The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has released its unaudited financial statements for the half-year period ended 30 June 2018, showing gross revenue of $343 million. The figure represented a $21 million increase over the gross revenuerealised same period in 2017. The results, released by the Bank in Cairo, Egypt, attributed the higher gross revenue to a significant increase in fee income, which …

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