10-07-2017; Abuja, Nigeria: Chairman, Heirs Holdings, Tony O. Elumelu, CON, charged the public sector to urgently fix bureaucracy and the process of doing business in Nigeria to promote, attract and retain willing investment partners in the country. He made this call yesterday while discussing the topic “Nigeria Open for …
Read More »FirstBank appoints Abdullahi Ibrahim as Executive Director
First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s most valuable banking brand and foremost financial institution, today announced the appointment of Mr. Abdullahi Ibrahim as an Executive Director. Prior to this appointment, Abdullahi was the Bank’s Group Executive, Retail Banking North. Mr. Ibrahim’s appointment is in sync with FirstBank’s strong corporate governance …
Read More »UBA takes its Read Africa Initiative to Ghana
On Tuesday July 4th, 2017, The UBA Foundation, the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, continued on its quest to educate and empower African youths as it visited the Accra High School in Ghana. UBA Foundation’s Read Africa Initiative was launched in 2011 …
Read More »Elumelu Commends Afreximbank….Urges Other DFIs to Support African Businesses
At the24th Annual General Meeting of the African Export-Import Bank(Afrexim), held in Rwanda, Tony O. Elumelu, CON, Chairman of Heirs Holdings and the Tony Elumelu Foundation, congratulatedAfrexim for the critical supportthat the Bank, led by President Oramah, provides for African businesses and its significant contribution to the development of cross-border …
Read More »Afrexim Signs $1bn Loans With Dangote
The African Export Import (AFREXIM) Bank has signed a $1billion memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Dangote Group of Companies at the 24th Annual General Meeting of the bank holding in Kigali, Rwanda. AFREXIM Bank’s president, Dr. Paul Oramah, said “the deal was part of the bank’s bid to expand …
Read More »Labour Hails Aliko on Investment Drive, employment, youth empowerment …urges others to emulate him
Following his fresh investments in automobile and agriculture, the organized labour in the country has commended Alhaji Aliko Dangote, President and the Chief Executive of Dangote Group for promoting investments and creating thousands of direct and indirect youth employments across the country and in Africa. The labour said Dangote’s …
Read More »Communication and PR Academics Support Call to End Use of AVEs AMEC Academic Advisory Group Statement
Leading international communication and public relations academics have welcomed and supported the “Say No to AVEs” call byAMECto end the use of advertising value equivalents (AVEs) as a purported measure of editorial media publicity. The Academic Advisory Group to AMEC, comprised of Professor Anne Gregory, University of Huddersfield, UK; …
Read More »Food security: Heritage Bank restates commitment to deepen Agro-business funding
Heritage Bank Plc has reiterated its commitment to further deepen the drive to support agribusiness value chain in order to fast track food security and sufficiency in the country.The MD/CEO of the bank, Mr Ifie Sekibo, who disclosed this, stated that in a bid to support food sufficiency, Heritage Bank …
Read More »UBA Foundation launches Read Africa in Liberia
In pursuance of its mission to uplift the lives of the communities in which the United bank for Africa (Plc) operates, UBA Foundation’s initiative, Read Africa is visiting schools in African countries to encourage young children embrace the culture of reading. Read Africa is an initiative of UBA Foundation geared …
Read More »Nigeria loses more than 140 billion weekly to Apapa gridlock – Aliko Dangote
President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote has lauded the decision of the Federal Government to reconstruct the failed Apapa Wharf road as its grim state serves as both an embarrassment to the country and a huge financial loss to the government on a weekly basis. Dangote who spoke on Tuesday …
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