With 5.5% Stake, Femi Otedola Emerges Transcorp’s Largest Individual Shareholder
Billionaire businessman, Mr. Femi Otedola has emerged largest single individual shareholder in Transnational Corporation Plc (Transcorp), a publicly traded diversified conglomerate chaired by Mr. Tony Elumelu.
A top stockbroker at the Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX), disclosed to THISDAY that the billionaire now…
The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Adeleke Mamora, has given reasons why Nigeria remains a poor country despite being blessed.
The minister, who spoke at a workshop aimed at accelerating small hydropower investments in Nigeria, said the lack of capacity to…
The National Bureau of Statistics has disclosed that the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company had the highest electricity revenue for the third and fourth quarters of 2022.
NBS noted that the Ikeja DisCo generated N40,558.7 billion and N45,625.79 in the third and fourth…
The International Monetary Fund says the recent slowdown witnessed in Foreign Direct Investment, especially in developing countries can be linked to the divergent trade patterns among countries, with flows increasingly concentrated among geopolitically aligned countries, particularly in strategic sectors.
It said the new development would affect emerging markets and developing economies given…
The Board of Directors of Heritage Bank has announced Mr Akinola George-Taylor as the substantive Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the bank.
Mr Ozena Utulu, Group Head, Corporate Communications of the bank, said this in a statement on Sunday.
The statement…
The Federal Government, on Thursday, said the amount spent on subsidising Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, between 2005 and 2021 was N13tn, adding that the country lost N16.3tn to oil theft from 2009 to 2020.
It disclosed this in Abuja through the Nigeria…
Stakeholders in the financial sector have canvassed the need to grow the insurance and pension sectors.
They spoke at the annual conference of BusinessToday Communication Limited in Lagos with the theme, ‘Consumer satisfaction in deepening penetration in insurance and pension sectors’.
The Chief Executive Officer, Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise, Dr Muda Yusuf, called on the…
FG bars online banks from accessing customer photos and contact information.
April 10, 2023
Loan apps on Play Store will lose their ability to access their users’ contacts or photos from May 31, 2023.
This came as the Federal Government said it would enforce the latest policy by Google, saying the action was consistent with the Nigerian authorities’ move to…
MTN Nigeria has announced the price for its shares per unit under the scrip dividend plan for interested shareholders.
In a corporate notice filed with the Nigerian Exchange Limited on Thursday, the firm said that reference share price would be N232.68, which was lower than…
The United Bank for Africa has revealed plans to sell the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company to recover a $122m debt the Disco is owing it.
The lender had in December 2021 taken over the disco following the government’s approval.
The plan to sell was revealed at the bank’s audited 2022 results conference call (strategic review and outlook).
In December 2021, UBA took over AEDC over the…