UBA Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of United Bank for Africa Plc, says it has joined the rest of the world to celebrate women in the month of March, with various activities aimed at empowering young women and promoting gender equality.
Specifically, the foundation organised a two-day empowerment programme tagged ‘Women Digitall Workshop’ where scores of young women were…
No fewer than 173 digital lending applications have been approved to operate in Nigeria by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.
The 173 loan apps, only 119 have full approvals while 54 currently have conditional approvals while it bars illegal online…
Some shareholders have expressed concerns over Oando Plc’s plan to delist from the capital market and acquire the shares of minority shareholders.
Oando in a corporate notice on Thursday informed the Nigerian Exchange Limited of its latest plans.
The company’s core…
A Partner at KPMG Nigeria, Yemi Kale, has advocated increased deployment of technology for credible data gathering in the country.
Kale, who is a former Statistician-General at the National Bureau of Statistics, spoke at the 2023 edition of ‘Experiencing PR’, an annual conference organised by Nigerian Women in Public Relations.
According to a statement, the event brought together physical and…
Polaris Bank has offered free entry to local and international airport lounges to its customers.
In a statement on Thursday, the bank said that its customers who open its Polaris Select Plus Account would get free entry to local and international airport lounges across the…
Barring any last-minute change of heart, the Federal Government will in the next one or two weeks begin the demolition of multibillion-naira private jet hangars located at the Murtala Muhammed International Lagos.
The Federal Government said the hangars were obstructing the…
The manager of Nigeria’s sovereign wealth fund, the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, grew its net assets by 10 per cent from N919.73bn in 2021 to N1.02tn in the 2022 financial year.
This was disclosed in its audited results for the 2022 financial year, which was released on Thursday.
The highlights of NSIA’s activities and performance during the period under review also showed that it…
The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has agreed to lead a delegation saddled with the responsibility of improving bilateral trade and collaboration between Nigeria and Pakistan.
Sirika accepted this offer when a team from the Africa Center for Asia Studies, International…
World Bank has said developing counties including Nigeria have huge investment needs due to their inadequate infrastructure and other challenges.
As such, the Washington-based lender called on policymakers to create an environment conducive for investment and devoid of…
Dangote Industries Limited has completed the listing of the firm’s N300bn series 1 and 2 bonds on Nigerian Exchange Limited and the FMDQ in Lagos.
The Group Managing Director of DIL, Olakunle Alake, during the listing ceremony, told investors that the bonds were primarily for part-financing the Group’s 650,000 bpd refinery project.
He explained that the decision of the company to issue bonds…