archiveSeptember 17, 2016

Director, Development Finance Department, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Mr Mudashiru Olaitan has revealed that the apex bank has set up committee to review its policy on the non-oil Export Stimulation Facility (ESF) which includes N500 billion low interest rate non-oil export facility. Business247 News Online recalls that the ESF...

Insurance experts have called on the Federal Government to enforce compulsory insurances, while leveraging on insurance to grow the economy. The Chairman, Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA), Mr. Eddie Efekoha, while speaking at Professionals' Forum organised by the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria(CIIN) in Abeokuta, Ogun State, charged government to embark...

An Abuja-based Pension Fund Administrator (PFA), Premium Pension Limited, has won the Africa’s Most Innovative Pension Company of the Year, 2016 award. The award was conferred on the PFA by the African Quality Institute- publishers of Quality Standard Magazine. Reacting on the award, the Managing Director of the firm, Mr....

  Sterling Bank Plc will on Wednesday September 21 hosts the second phase of its Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) workshop in Ibadan. It would be recalled that the bank had organized similar workshops in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Kaduna and Onitsha with over 300 MSME members trained. Similar workshop...

  FirstBank has denied violating the Federal Government’s directive on the Treasury Single Account (TSA) in respect of a Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) dollar account. According to a statement on Saturday by First Banks Head of Media and External Relations, Mr. Babatunde Lasaki, said the Central Bank of Nigeria...

  I arrived in the forest. I met the forest lord He offers me bush meat I am not here to hunt for bush meat I journey deep down the ocean I met the queen of the coast She offers me fish to eat I am not here to fish...

  The global luxury brand in hotel management, Marriot will make its debut in Sub-Saharan Africa next month with the grand opening of Renaissance Hotel located in the Ikeja GRA, Lagos state. The hotel, which is the first Marriot Hotel in Sub-Africa, according to a statement by its Director of...

Former Nigeria Ambassador to the United Kingdom (UK), Dr. Christopher Kolade (CON) has urged the new awardees of the Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy (NAP) and other key players in the industry to imbibe the practice of professionalism and good leadership when caring out duties and services. Kolade who stated this...

The NSE All-Share Index and Market Capitalization appreciated by 1.02 per cent to close the week at 27,858.48 and N9.570 trillion respectively. It was a three-day trading week as the Federal Government of Nigeria declared Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th of September, 2016 as Public Holiday in commemoration of the...

The President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has said that a wave of asset selling by the government could be the best way to tackle the problem of economic recession ravaging the economy. Speaking at CNBC programme on Friday, Dangote said:  “I think the real challenge for us is...