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Leading professional service firm, PwC, has said that HR leaders must help their organisations optimise talent as well as achieve a strategic balance between rewarding employees and costs to other relevant stakeholders for them to thrive in a constantly disrupted and divergent world. This was made known at the breakfast...

Jumia Travel Nigeria has celebrated its third year of doing business in Nigeria and also marked the second edition of its awards ceremony in Lagos on Thursday. A total of 28 Lagos hotels were awarded under five categories namely, Customer Choice, Best Partner Hotel, Best Hotel Partner, Booking Award, and...

There are plans by the Federal government to return the Export Expansion Grant in 2017. The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr Okechukwu Enelamah, who dropped the hint explained that the grant would be reviewed to encourage local production as well as small and medium scale enterprises. He added...

  By ABDUL OLALEKAN FBNInsurance Limited, for the second time in three years, has won the 2016 Best Life Insurance Company in Nigeria. The award was conferred on the insurance by World Finance, organisers of the prestigious World Finance Global Insurance Awards. Explaining the criteria used in choosing the winners,...

By ABDUL OLALEKAN Former Minister of State for Finance, Mr Remi Babalola, has tasked registered insurance brokers in the country to expand their role beyond facilitators of risk transfer to helping their clients keep pace with the social, technological, environmental, economic and political developments. This, he said, will allow their...

Nigeria has been ranked number one in Africa and eight in the world in terms of internet usage with 63 million internet users. This was contained in the second edition of Digitalfacts – Nigeria, West & Central Africa; a publication produced by digitXplus. The book revealed  that these  fifteen countries...

By Nkem Ndem Everyone knows that Abuja is not the bubbliest destination in Nigeria. There is a high chance you will be trapped in absolute ennui when visiting and you do not have the right people to hang with or know the right places to go. What then do you...

Crude oil drips from a valve at an oil well operated by Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA, in the oil rich Orinoco belt, near Morichal at the state of Monagas April 16, 2015. According to Reuters report monitored by Business247 News Online, oil prices jumped 4 per cent on Tuesday,...

The President/Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Barkers of Nigeria (CIBN) Prof. Segun Ajibola, has said that the Institute was exploring new ways to forge a partnership with Skye Bank Plc and enhance economic growth. Ajibola, who dropped this hint when he led the council on a courtesy visit to...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NSC) has warned the public against falling to the antics of fraudsters who post fake auction advertisements purportedly by the service in the social media. Its Public Relations Officer (PRO) at Tin Can Island Port 2 Customs Command, Godwin Andishu, who, gave the warning in Lagos,...