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Application exclusively available on TEFConnect.com – the largest digital networking platform for African entrepreneurs Invitation to join existing 4,470 programme Fellows 4th Cycle drew over 150,000 applications from across the African continent The Tony Elumelu Foundation, the leading African-funded and founded philanthropy committed to empowering African entrepreneurs, is now accepting applications for …

A popular Nigerian business news blog has been exposed while trying to blackmail one of the fastest growing banks recently. Information filtering in revealed that the business news blog and its publisher (names withheld) recently strategised their plots to blackmail Keystone Bank Limited and its managing director/CEO, Dr. Obeahon Ohiwerei. …

Heritage Bank Plc, Nigeria’s most innovative banking services provider; has partnered with Ikoyi Club 38 to host the monthly mugs competition of the golf section. Speaking at the event, the MD/CEO of Heritage Bank, Ifie Sekibo said the bank partnered the club because, “we needed to pitch our tent where …

Patrick Akinwuntan, Managing Director, Ecobank Nigeria Plc. Ecobank Nigeria Plc is in hot soup as a businessman, Mr. Linus Ukachukwu has accused the bank of forging documents to open an account for his company, Lingo Nigeria Limited, without his consent. The businessman lamented that; “It is very unfortunate that banks no longer …

Group Managing Director, Access Bank Plc, Herbert Wigwe. The Group Managing Director of Access Bank Plc, Herbert Wigwe, has assured that the merger between Access Bank and Diamond Bank would not lead to job loss. Wigwe made the clarification at a joint press briefing by both banks at the head …

2018 has been  quite an eventful year, especially in the areas of growth and education in the Independent PR Monitoring and Measurement Industry in Nigeria. Here are some of the major highlights of 2018. – Public Relations Measurement awareness in Nigeria grew from 37 percent in 2017 to 54 percent …

Diamond Bank Plc has continued to deliver on its promise of going beyond banking by organizing an entrepreneurial training program targeted at young creatives in partnership with Facebook and Afrinolly Creative Hub tagged: ‘Facebook for Creators’. The Area Manager, Diamond Bank Plc, Chigozie Onyecha, said that the bank believed in …

The Board of Diamond Bank Plc (“Diamond Bank”) today announces that following a strategic review leading to a competitive process, the Board has selected Access Bank Plc (“Access Bank”) as the preferred bidder with respect to a potential merger of the two banks (“the merger”) that will create Nigeria and …

Unity Bank Plc has won the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) 2018 sustainable banking award, clenching the award for ‘Sustainable Transaction of the Year in Agriculture’. The Bank won the coveted award for its compliance with the Sustainable Banking Principles as it relates to the management of Environmental and Social …