The Management of Dangote Group on Monday debunked a story alleging that the company will benefit 10-year tax holiday after constructing 35 km Apapa to Oworonshoki highway end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Speaking at the Ikoyi head office, on Monday, Group Executive Director, Strategy, Portfolio Development and Capital Projects, Dangote …
Read More »WINS BIG AT INTERSWITCH AWARDS
Pan-African financial services group, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has once again added to its growing list of laurels by emerging best institution in two esteemed categories at the prestigious Interswitch Awards and Gala. UBA , beat other nominees in its category, taking away the prize for the Fastest …
Read More »2017 National Essay Competition: UBA Foundation Announces Call For Entries
Lagos, Nigeria; 26/09/2017; UBA Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has announced the call for entries for the 2017 edition of its annual UBA Foundation National Essay Competition in Nigeria. The essay competition which is put together for senior secondary school students …
Read More »THE TRANSFORMATIVE BENEFITS OF NIGERIA GOING CARDLESS By Uzoma Dozie, CEO, Diamond Bank Plc
Thanks to changing lifestyles and the ubiquity of mobile phones, the number of people across Nigeria using mobile banking is rising exponentially. This is creating the opportunity to turn my vision of a cardless Nigeria into a reality. By 2020 there will be 200 million smartphone connections in …
Read More »Keystone Bank launches new service number for customers
In line with its goal to provide quality service to its customers, Keystone Bank Limited has introduced a new SMART number, for customer support. Launched earlier this month, the smart number – 0700 2000 3000 Contact Centre eliminates the need for customers to remember multiple numbers while removing the uncertainty …
Read More »Dangote begs public to help monitor truck drivers …sets up hotline for reports
The Management of Dangote Industries Limited (Dangote Group) has issued a passionate appeal to members of the public to assist in monitoring and reporting both recklessness and illegal haulage of contrabands goods by some of its truck drivers. The company has also set up hotlines for the public to report such truck …
Read More »Dangote Foundation, GBCHealth, join forces to build Coalition on Health
Dangote Foundation and GBCHealth have joined forces to forge a new model of partnership, African Business Coalition on Health (GBCHealth) in Africa. Chairman of Dangote Foundation, Aliko Dangote, shared plans to build an African Business Coalition on Health (ABCHealth), during the Bloomberg Global Business Forum, he was co-hosting, and which took place …
Read More »Digitization, fintech as panacea to financial inclusion:
One of the compelling aspirations of the Federal Government and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in the last two years has been to ramp up the numbers for financial inclusion in the country. To this end, Nigeria’s apex bank, alongside other regulators in the financial services sector, including the …
Read More »Ecobank staff steals customer’s N5.8m
Titilayo Adeyemo, 40, a resident of Banjoko Street, Gbagada, Lagos was arraigned before an Igbosere magistrate’s court, Lagos, on a three-count charge bordering on forgery, fraud and conversion. According to the prosecutor, Inspector Abass Abayomi, Adeyemo, a staff of Eco Bank Plc defrauded a customer of the bank to the …
Read More »Heritage Bank partners FG, LASG on Diaspora Return in Badagry
Heritage Bank Plc has partnered with the Office of the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Diaspora and Foreign Affairs and the Lagos State Government (LASG) to organise the 2017 edition of Diaspora Festival Badagry with the theme Door of Return Ceremony Badagry. The festival which held recently in …
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