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…shareholders may receive interim dividend  Shareholders who invested in Guaranty Trust Bank Plc (GTBank) may received interim dividend for the half year ended June 30, 2016. The board of directors however set to meet on Wednesday, July 30, 2016 to discussed Issue relating to interim dividend, 2016 half year results...

Barely a week after winning the 2016 Euromoney “Best Bank Transformation” Award in London, Access Bank Plc has just received the award for the “Outstanding Business Sustainability” in the 2016 Karlsruhe Sustainable Finance Awards in Germany. The award, presented to the Bank in Karlsruhe, Germany’s most sustainable city, recognizes the...

Investors in equities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) began trading week today with a loss of N25 billion as the market Capitalisation which began the week at N9.893 trillion closed at N9.868 trillion even as the All-Share Index came down from 28,805.45 basis points with which it left the...

The Board of Directors of Nigerian Breweries Plc has declared revenue of N157.37 billion for the first half of 2016. The unaudited and provisional results released to The Nigerian Stock Exchange show that the amount represents a 4 per cent increase over the N151.67 billion declared in the corresponding period...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has expressed determination to raise the participation of retail investors in the Nigerian Capital market as that is one of the critical ways of deepening the market. Director General of SEC, Mounir Gwarzo stated this when the management of the Commission visited the Federal...

A turnover of 1.149 billion shares worth N13.616 billion in 21,868 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE) in contrast to a total of 377.798 million shares valued at N3.641 billion that exchanged hands last week in 7,466 deals. The NSE...

Great Nigeria Insurance (GNI) Plc has called on Nigerians to adopt the culture of insurance, especially, during the current financial crisis. In a statement made available to Business247 Online News, the Chief Technical Officer of the company, Mr. Folusho Alliyu, stated this, following the various incessant cases of road accidents...

The management of Access Bank Plc has notified the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) of late filling of half year results for period ended June 30, 2016. The lender in a statement signed by it Company Secretary, Sunday Ekwochi and Chief Finance Officer, Seyi Kumapayi, said board of directors will be...

FBNInsurance Limited, in conjunction with the humanitarian organization, Rotary Club of Omole Golden, has carried out a free breast and cervical cancer screening/vaccination exercise for girls and women. In a statement made available to Business247 Online News, the exercise which held at the premises of Ifako Ijaye Health Centre, Ogba,...

Skye Bank stocks dropped by 43 per cent to N0.60, the lowest in three months as investors continued to sell-off after the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) replaced its board and management. The lender stock which was selling at N1.05 on Monday, July 4, 2016 when the CBN announced the...