KPMG Sacks South African Management Team Over Financial Scandal
Foremost accountancy firm, KPMG, has removed the leadership team of its South African arm after an internal investigation into work it did for the Gupta family. Chief executive Trevor Hoole, Chairman...
View ArticleMastercard Unveils Which Cities Benefit the Most from International Travel
Around the world, tourism is driving the economic engines of growth and development. Since 2009, international travel and spending by overnight visitors to cities have grown faster than real GDP. To...
View ArticlePhoto News: Consolidated Hallmark Insurance Plc signing ceremony of...
L-R: Chief Andrew Odigie, Vice Chairman, CHI, Mr Eddie Efekoha, MD, CHI, Mr Obinna Ekezie, Chairman, CHI and Mr Efe Akhigbe, MD,Planet Capital,the Issuing House at the company’s signing ceremony of...
View ArticleNigeria’s Consolidated Hallmark Insurance raising N500million from capital...
L-R: Chief Andrew Odigie, Vice Chairman, CHI, Mr Eddie Efekoha, MD, CHI, Mr Obinna Ekezie, Chairman, CHI and Mr Efe Akhigbe, MD,Planet Capital,the Issuing House at the company’s signing ceremony of...
View ArticleNigeria-Based Zenith Bank ‘B-B’ And ‘ngBBB-ngA-2’ Ratings Affirmed; Outlook...
We believe Zenith Bank will continue to display better asset quality indicators than its domestic peers and sound earnings generation amid slow economic recovery in Nigeria. We are affirming our...
View ArticleNigeria Retains Rate at 14% Fifth in 2017
Godwin Emefiele, Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) At the end of its 258th meeting (fifth this year), the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted to maintain...
View ArticleVP Osinbajo Says FG will Deliver on Ease of Doing Business Reforms
Yemi Osinbajo, Vice President of Nigeria In an expanded meeting of the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council, a new National Action Plan intended to drive the ease of doing...
View Article2017 National Essay Competition: UBA Foundation Announces Call For Entries
Group Head, External Relations, UBA Plc, Mr. Nasir Ramon; Director, Marketing and Corporate Relations and Chief Executive Officer, UBA Foundation, Mrs Bola Atta and Deputy CEO, Anglophone Africa, UBA...
View ArticleLafarge Africa Announces Merger with UNICEM, Atlas cement
Lafarge Africa Plc (“Lafarge Africa” or “the Company”) hereby notifies The Nigerian Stock Exchange of the decision of the Board of the Company to merge United Cement Company of Nigeria Limited...
View ArticleCBN Holds Again – Better Safe than Sorry
In line with market consensus, the MPC kept monetary policy stance on hold and maintained status quo on other parameters. This decision enables the central bank to buy more time to see if the current...
View ArticleHeritage Bank reiterates commitment to Nigeria’s entertainment industry
Heritage Bank Plc has reiterated its commitment to the growth and development of Nigeria’s creative industry because it is a major contributor to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In an...
View ArticleGhana:.Insurance industry shows signs of growth – GLICO boss
Benjamin Avickosn, South East Sector Manager of GLICO Life Insurance, has observed that in spite of the few challenges insurance companies are saddled with in Ghana, the sector has over the years shown...
View ArticlePhotos News: Faces at the on going public hearing to amend pension reform act...
L-R: Chief Whip of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado Doguwa and Chairman House Committee on Pension, Honourable Hassan Adamu Shekrau at the event today in Abuja. Cross section of participants...
View ArticleEFCC Arraigns Former Bank Manager, Others For N72m Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission today September 27, 2017 arraigned four suspected fraudsters Sani Abubakar, Abubakar Abdullahi, Mainasara Kallamu and Abdulrazaq Abdullahi before Justice...
View ArticleConsolidated Hallmark Insurance Says N500Million Rights Issue Opens October...
L-R: Chief Andrew Odigie, Vice Chairman, CHI, Mr Eddie Efekoha, MD, CHI, Mr Obinna Ekezie, Chairman, CHI and Mr Efe Akhigbe, MD,Planet Capital,the Issuing House at the company’s signing ceremony of...
View ArticleLafarge gets shareholders, board approval to raise N131.65billion Rights Issue
BY NKECHI NAECHE—-Cement producer, Lafarge Africa Plc said on Thursday said it had received shareholders and board approval to raise fresh funds of N131.65 billion via Rights issue. The company...
View ArticleCapital Market scam: SEC Police Unit Arraigns BGL Officials
R-L: Mr. Chibundu Edozie of BGL arriving the court with his sister and SP Kayode Awe of the SEC Police Unit for the arraignment. The zero tolerance stance on infractions of the Securities and...
View ArticleParamilitary Bill: NLC,NPF, stakeholders kicks, opposes exemption from CPS
L-R: Chief Whip of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado Doguwa and Chairman House Committee on Pension, Honourable Hassan Adamu Shekrau at the event today in Abuja. BY NKECHI...
View ArticleUBA Wins Big At Interswitch Awards
Pan-African financial services group, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has once again added to its growing list of laurels by emerging best institution in two esteemed categories at the prestigious...
View ArticleNAIPCO Set To Hold Insurance, Pension Stakeholders Confab Oct 25
Cross section of National Association of Insurance and Pension Correspondents (NAIPCO) during a seminar held in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The National Association of Insurance and Pension...
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