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Heritage Bank Plc, Nigeria’s most innovative banking service provider has taken a bold step to revolutionalise the banking sector with the introduction of an advanced intelligent digital experience known as Octopus. The solution which is full-fledged digital bank, has been described by financial technology experts as a game-changing innovation that is poised to connect all your bank accounts with your …

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The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, has said President Muhammadu Buhari will at the banquet hall of the State House in Abuja on Tuesday, March 13, 2018, officially launch the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP). focus labs which is one of the initiatives undertaken to ensure the full and effective implementation of the plan. …

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Leading financial institution, Diamond Bank partnered with the Enterprise Development Center (EDC) of the Pan Atlantic University, Lagos in celebration of the international women’s day while lending its voice to the call for more women in the society to continually press for progress, continue in their identified purpose and ultimately to pursue their passions. The event which was a gathering …

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Neymar already regrets moving to Paris Saint-Germain and is seeking a shock return to Barcelona, according to reports in the Spanish media on Friday. In the same week that PSG crashed out of the Champions League, and only seven months after he joined the club for a world record 222million euros ($264 million, Neymar´s future has become uncertain. Spanish sports …

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The Nigerian Stock Exchange, in partnership with the Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative, United Nations Women, United Nations Global Compact, International Finance Corporation, the World Federation of Exchanges, WIMBIZ, and Women in ETFs, organised a symposium to celebrate International Women’s Day 2018, on Thursday, March 8, 2018, at the Stock Exchange House in Lagos. In line with the global theme for …

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The Corporate Affairs Commission has said it is working to ensure the completion of company registration in two hours starting from December this year. The Acting Registrar-General, CAC, Azuka Azinge, stated this on Thursday during the oversight visit of the Senate Committee on Trade and Investment to the commission’s Lagos office in Alausa, Ikeja. She said the various innovations that …

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Photo Caption: Left; Dame Abimbola Fashola, Chairman, Learn NGO/Ella Care & former First Lady of Lagos State; Oscar Onyema, CEO, NSE and Laure Beaufils, Deputy British High Commissioner to Nigeria during the NSE International Women’s Day Symposium at the Exchange on Thursday.

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President of the E-Waste Relief Foundation (ERF), Mr. Ifeanyi Ochonogor has said that Nigeria annually generates 1 million tonnes of electronic waste out of the total 50million tonnes generated globally per year. Ochonogor who gave the statistics at the Inaugural Board Meeting of the ERF in Lagos recently said the country must as a matter of urgency work towards tackling …

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The Bank of Industry on Wednesday presented N362m cheque to the first batch of the beneficiaries of the N2bn-Micro, Small and Medium-scale Enterprises, Development Fund in Benue State. Benue State and BoI had last year signed a pact on the N2bn matching fund to boost the entrepreneurial potential of people in the state. Under the financing model, both parties gave …

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The nation’s external reserves hit $43.2bn on March 6, 2018, data obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria showed on Wednesday. The foreign exchange reserves had recorded a four-year high at $42.76bn on March 2, after commencing this year at $38.77bn. The foreign reserves have gained about $3.99bn or 10.3 per cent this year. The reserves had moved from $38.77bn …

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