Banking

Banks begin payment of old N500, N1,000 notes

Following the Supreme Court judgment, which extended the validity of the Central Bank of Nigeria currency redesign policy to December 31, some banks across the country have started paying out the old N500 and N1,000 notes to customers. Guaranty Trust Bank, Polaris Bank and some other banks were on Monday confirmed to be dispensing the old notes in Abuja and Kano. A banker who spoke with Daily…
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Real Estate

Property managers must act ethically.

Stakeholders in the building industry have been charged to uphold standard ethics, which would put the sector in good light and lead to improved welfare for practitioners. A professor of Estate Management at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, Timothy Nubi, attributed the high…
Brands & People

Transcorp Hotels grows profit by 172%

Transcorp Hotels Plc, the hospitality subsidiary of Transcorp Group  has said its profit after tax rose by 172 per cent in 2022 financial period. In a statement on its financial results for full year 2022, it said, “The company reported a profit before tax of N4.5bn, a…
BankingTechnology

FCMB Recommends Nigerian Company for WEF Award

The First City Monument Bank has expressed its delight in Babban Gona, a Nigeria-based high-impact social enterprise, for winning the Schwab Award for Social Entrepreneurship at the World Economic Forum annual meeting which held in Davos, Switzerland. Babban Gona is an award-winning and high-impact agri-tech social enterprise that focuses on making farming more financially and environmentally…
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BankingReal Estate

Aid groups lift cash limits for mortgage lenders.

The Housing Development Advocacy Network has appealed to the Central Bank of Nigeria to give waivers to mortgage banks in the cash withdrawal limit policy. The report titled “How CBN is underdeveloping the Nigerian mortgage sector” noted that appeals made to the CBN for a waiver of the policy and the request that primary mortgage banks’ withdrawals be treated as bank-to-bank transfers had…
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Real Estate

Operators project over 60% rise in housing deficit.

Experts in Nigeria’s built industry have predicted an over 60 per cent rise in the housing deficit by 2050, on the back of rising population and urbanisation worsened by economic conditions. The Treasurer of the Nigerian Institute of Building, Lagos Chapter, Philips…
FintechPodcast

Flutterwave denies that N2.9B was stolen by hackers.

African fintech unicorn Flutterwave has denied losing the sum of  ₦2,949,557,867 to hackers. It was earlier reported on Sunday that hackers stole the sum of ₦2,949,557,867, from the accounts of the company and over 300 customers were affected by the fraudulent…
FintechPodcast

The hacker allegedly stole N2.9 billion from Flutterwave.

Reports have it that ₦2,949,557,867 has been illegally transferred from the accounts of African fintech unicorn, Flutterwave. The tech giant’s counsel, Albert Onimole, reported the case to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, State Criminal Intelligence Department, Panti, Yaba, Techcabal reported. According to Onimole’s letter, the hack on Flutterwave’s accounts occurred about some weeks ago…
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