Business

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 …

  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 …

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 …

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 …

   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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The menace of food insecurity currently prevailing Nigeria may soon become part of history as Heritage Bank Plc has disclosed that it is supporting NatnudO Foods, a food processing company in its determination to make poultry affordable and accessible for the people. Speaking at the media briefing organized on food …

First Bank of Nigeria Limited and its subsidiaries as part of its commitment to drive the sustainable development of the communities in which it does business, has identified and empathised with the victims of the mudslides and floods that devastated parts of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown. To this end, the …