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With several trillions of naira needed to provide adequate social infrastructures in the country, at a time of economic crunch, experts felt insurance industry can assist the government fund the infrastructural deficits in the country. ABDUL-KHALIQ OLALEKAN writes.   The decaying infrastructure and the need to repair and provide new...

The driving force of the contemporary banking operation is electronic platform, as it makes banking easier and comfortable. As a result of this, the emergence of Automated Tellers’ Machine (ATM) has reduced queues in the banking hall, by taking banking services closer to the people. But as useful as this...

Following the financial crisis that is ravaging the economy, Nigerians are now sacrificing their insurance budget to meet more immediate needs, a development experts said could mean sitting on a gun powder. ABDUL-KHALIQ OLALEKAN writes. Worldwide, insurance has been seen as the last hope of the common man. This is...

Mr. Wale Akintunde is the incumbent treasurer of the Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria (AAAN) and the Chief Operating Officer of Centrespread Advertising Limited. He is blessed with string of academic and professional qualifications that perhaps makes him the most qualified occupant of the treasurer’s post in the entire...

Niyi Olaoye The Nigerian Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) are now increasingly relying on various forms of incentives, such as cash reward  to woo new customers, in order to switch their everyday banking to them, Business247 revealed. Business247 gathered that at various banking halls across the nation, customers now meet a...

Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has expressed the state's readiness to partner with local and international health organizations to achieve his administration's objectives and programme in providing quality health care to the people. A statement issued on Saturday by his Chief Press Secretary, Enyinnaya Appolos, said he spoke when...

There is heightened expectation that the new foreign exchange (forex) policy will aid the country economic growth and bring restoration of investor confidence. NIYI OLAOYE writes on the herd of stakeholders asking for ‘more,’ which throws up a lot of controversies that only the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and...

Good morning everyone, the country has just taken part in a giant democratic exercise, perhaps the biggest in our history. Over 33 million people from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar have all had their say. We should be proud of the fact that in these islands we trust...

It is a good news that the review committee on the revised insurance (consolidated) bill concluded its job and recently submitted the new revised bill to the Finance Ministry, experts as well as insurance operators feel that this is the starting point to overhauling the current Insurance Act 2003, hoping...

With the recent announcement by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to allow the Naira exchange rate to be market-driven, experts have concluded that though foreign investments might return to the country in future, the move is going to make Nigerian’s low income earners poorer. NIYI OLAOYE writes. The Central...