archiveAugust 2016

Kasimu Garba Kurfi, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of APT Securities and Funds Limited, is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA) and a Fellow of Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (FCS). He is also an authorised Dealing Clerk of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. He has close...

Prominent lawyer and civil rights activist, Dr. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi has been elected Chair of the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), a coalition of 400 civil society organisations in the country. With this development, Akiyode-Afolabi, former Public Relations Officer of the Students Union Government (SUG) of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife,...

Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, has expressed deep shock over the untimely death of Mr. Wariebi Abiri, son of Hon. Justice Kate Abiri, the Chief Judge of the state. A statement issued on Sunday by his Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, said Dickson, made the lamentation after paying a...

Shoppers and Store owners in Lagos are in for exciting news as T-Mart Wholesale Store, a renowned membership-based wholesale shopping mall opened in Lekki area of Lagos over the weekend. This is the first of its kind in Lagos, and will be followed by many more outlets across the major...

Royal Exchange Plc said, over the weekend, it generated a Gross Written Premium of N8.43 billion from its business activities in the first half of the 2016 financial year, representing an increase of 34 per cent over the figure of 2015, which stood at N6.28 billion. A statement from the...

New Chairman of Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA), Mr. Eddie Efekoha, has promised to embark on massive insurance awareness campaign to aid insurance penetration and acceptance in the country. Efekoha, who made the pledge at his investiture as the 22nd Chairman of the association in Lagos, noted that it was imperative...

  Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, on Friday inaugurated a nine-member Board for the Bayelsa State Geographic and Information Systems (BYGIS) with a mandate to formulate policies targeted at effectively managing all land related information. It is also aimed at creating wealth and promotion of enterprise. Chief Alex Ekiotene...

A turnover of 1.375 billion shares worth N12.940 billion in 16,915 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in contrast to a total of 1.361 billion shares valued at N10.711 billion that exchanged hands last week in 16,070 deals. The NSE...

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, has been elected as the President of the Association of African Central Banks (AACB). He was elected at the 39th ordinary meeting of the Assembly of Governors of the AACB and he will president over the association for...

The founding partner, GreenHouse Capital, Mr. Bunmi Akinyemiju has said that between 2014 and 2016, the company has invested a sum of $10 million into 13 Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) companies in Nigeria. Akinyemiju,  during an exclusively interview with Business247 News Online over the weekend, noted that the 13...