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Shell appoints a new managing director for the gas arm

Shell has announced the appointment of Ralph Gbobo as the Managing Director of its gas distribution company, Shell Nigeria Gas Limited, with effect from July 1, 2023. Ralph succeeds Ed Ubong who has taken up a new position within the Shell group. Until this appointment, Ralph was the Manager, Commercial and Non-Operated Venture of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited and Shell…
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Market

Investors grab N441bn as the stock market rebounds

Nigeria’s equity market posted a strong rebound on Wednesday as investors gained N441bn at the close of the day’s trading session. The All-Share Index went up 1.33 per cent to 61,523.57 points by close of trading, a significant improvement to the previous day’s record…
Education

After having Said And Done, I Realized I Got 249 - Mmesoma Ejikeme 

The embattled Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, candidate, Mmesoma Ejikeme, has admitted scoring 249. Mmesoma was reacting to claims that the feedback from JAMB showed she scored 249. The 19-year-old had claimed to have earned JAMB’s highest score after her UTME result slip showed 362. But, JAMB had faulted the result, stressing…
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FintechTechnology

How to obtain invite to Meta’s new app, Threads

Giant tech company, Meta, will officially launch its own microblogging app, Threads on Thursday. With the structure of its service, Threads will ultimately serve as a competitor to the popular social media platform, Twitter. The launch comes in the wake of a new feature…
Banking

Zenith Bank leads Nigerian lenders in new global ranking

Zenith Bank Plc has retained its ranking as the ‘Number One Bank in Nigeria by Tier-1 Capital’ in the 2023 top 1,000 world banks’ rankings published by The Banker Magazine. The bank had held its position as the number one Tier-1 bank in Nigeria for the fourteenth year…
Banking

Expert tasks CBN on exploitative bank charges

Mr Okechukwu Unegbu, a financial expert, has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria to check the multiplicity of service charges by Deposit Money Banks. Unegbu, a past president of the Chattered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, made the appeal in an interview on Sunday in Abuja. According to him, banks no longer empathise with their customers, as was the case in the past. “What we have now is a…
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Fintech

Google’s first West Africa director resigns

Google’s first West Africa Director, Dr. Juliet Ehimuan has announced her departure from the company. She made the announcement on LinkedIn on Friday where she expressed her intention to pursue a broader role within the regional technology landscape. Before her…
Transportation

Lekki port receives first transshipment vessel

The management of Lekki Deep Seaport has announced the arrival of Rimbaud, the first transshipment vessel to call at the container terminal of the deep seaport. A statement by the port said that the vessel owned by CMA CGM shipping company, arrived at the terminal on…
Brands & PeopleRestaurant

Firm gets global recognition

Hospitality firm, Lagos Continental says it was recently recognised at the Hotel Managers Awards and World Chefs Championship 2023 Award. A statement by the firm said it was recognised as the Best Luxury Business Hotel in Nigeria at the 2023 Hotel Managers Awards, a globally recognised accolade that celebrates and acknowledges excellence in hospitality. Also, Master Chef, Chef Chua Ngiap of…
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