CBN Enhances Minimum Qualifications for Bank CCOs to Ensure Strict Compliance
CBN logo In its attempt to ensure strict compliance with all extant regulations; particularly those relating to foreign exchange transactions, Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and Anti-Money...
View ArticleNaira faces further loss as dollar scarcity deepens
Naira logo There is no end in sight to the continued depreciation of the naira despite recording a little gain against the dollar on Friday. The local currency has been on a free fall in the...
View ArticleAfrica’s reinsurance market expected to grow despite challenges
Africa’s reinsurance markets are expected to benefit from strong underlying growth driven by an expansion of its primary markets with insurance premiums reaching $64 billion. This is according to an...
View ArticleBrexit to push UK insurers into Africa, emerging markets
UK’s terms of departure to affect London’s £60bn insurance market, says Norton Rose Fulbright. Competition among insurance providers in emerging markets is set to intensify, as the UK’s plans to leave...
View ArticleFG To Float Bond To Offset Pension Arrears
DG PenCom, Mrs. Chinelo Anohu-Amazu The federal government is seriously considering the bond option in the next couple of weeks to offset the over N90 billion accumulated pension liabilities owed...
View ArticleLafarge Africa Names Bruno Bayet Chief Financial Officer
Please be informed that at a meeting of the Board of Directors of Lafarge Africa Plc dated September 30 2016, the Board duly accepted the resignation of Mr. Anders Kristiansson as the Chief Financial...
View ArticleGuinness Nigeria Says Diageo will not Increase Equity Stake
Guinness Nigeria Plc (“Guinness Nigeria”) hereby notifies the general public that further to its announcement on 9 September 2015 of Diageo plc’s (“Diageo”) intention to make an offer through its...
View ArticleTeddy Ngu Exits Honeywell Flour Mills Board
We hereby notify the general public THAT Dr. Teddy Ngu has resigned from the Board of Honeywell Flour Mills Plc with effect from the 30th September 2016 as he will be relocating to the United States of...
View ArticleSearching for Investor Confidence – Nigerian Banking Sector Report 2016
Executive Summary Global Economy and Global Banks Over the last two years, policy makers in emerging and frontier markets have had to deal with a cross current of headwinds arising from internal and...
View ArticleFirstBank Presents FirstStars Reality TV Show
… On EbonyLife TV (DStv channel 165) First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s most valuable bank brand in partnership with Ebony Life TV, Africa’s first Global Black entertainment and lifestyle...
View ArticleAxis Pension Trust wins top award
A wholly-owned Ghanaian firm, Axis Pension Trust has been adjudged Africa’s Best Pension company in innovation and risk management for 2015. This was conferred on the company at the 2nd Africa Pensions...
View ArticlePartnership with Tony Elumelu Foundation will lift creative Industries-Minister
L-R: Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and Chairman of Elumelu Foundation, Mr Tony Elumelu, after signing a Cooperation Agreement in Lagos yesterday. The partnership between the...
View ArticlePrivate Equity Emerging Market Round-Up
Over the last several years, the emerging markets have evolved into a critical pillar of global investors’ strategies. As growth rates declined across most of the developed world in the aftermath of...
View ArticleMore Opportunities abound in Insurance Industry, Says Mutual Benefits Chairman
L-R: Lamis Shehu Dikko, Director Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc, Vice Chairman Mutual Benefits, Babatunde Dabiri and Chairman of the Company, Akin Ogunbiyi at the company’s 20th AGM held today in Lagos....
View ArticlePhoto News: Faces at the 20th AGM of Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc
Cross section of Shareholders at the AGM held today in Lagos.
View ArticlePhoto News: Faces at the 20th AGM of Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc
Cross section of Shareholders at the AGM held today in Lagos.
View ArticleAnchor Insurance Gross Premium Income appreciates by 23% in 2015* Pays N1.43b...
L-R: DGM, Enterprise Risk Management, Anchor Insurance Company Limited, Austin Inegbenehi; Company Secretary/Legal Adviser, Ime Umoh; ED. Technical, Jeremiah Nsimah Tom; Managing Director/Chief...
View ArticleContributory Pension Scheme: The Need to Position for Growth
Still basking in the excitement of its success at the recently held Africa Pension Awards, Premium Pension Limited, one of the pioneer Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs) in Nigeria is positioning for...
View ArticleGovernment to miss out on end of year GDP target – IMF
IMF logo The projection is in sharp contrast to what the World Bank is forecasting for Ghana. The latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) Global Economic Outlook Report says Government will...
View ArticleGhana: Regency, NEM insurance merge over recapitalization
Commissioner of Insurance at the NIC, Lydia Lariba Bawa with MD of Regency Nem Insurance, Bode Oseni Ghana has recorded its first merger of local insurance companies following the revision of the...
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