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•The award was bestowed on FirstBank in recognition of the Bank’s role in promoting trade and investment endeavours across the continent. • With its subsidiaries across the FirstBank Group, FirstBank has continued to play a leading role in boosting cross-border businesses, including trade and investment opportunities, essential to enhancing trade relations amongst countries. • In […]

Just two weeks into the job, Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has pulled the right levers for markets: ridding the country of a costly fuel subsidy, removing a controversial central bank governor, and promising to unify a web of varying exchange rates.   Foreign investors have bought into the turnaround story for Africa’s biggest economy, with […]

The Economic Relationship Between the Two Continent’s Must Be Recalibrated to Focus on Job Creation.    When it comes to the relationship between the European Union and Africa, unfair arrangements have long been skated over for lack of alternatives.    Increasingly unsustainable, these one-sided deals have provoked calls from both sides of the Mediterranean for […]

Julius Berger Nigeria Plc recently joined other private sector stakeholders to launch the 62.1 Billion Naira (US$150 Million) HIV Trust Fund of Nigeria (HTFN).   The HIV Trust Fund of Nigeria (HTFN) is a private sector-led initiative of both the public and the private sectors. It is aimed at ensuring sustainable mobilization of funds towards […]

FBN Holdings Plc, the holding company of First Bank Nigeria Limited, on Thursday, announced the appointment of Nnamdi Okonkwo as its Group Managing Director.   The Board of the bank announced this in a letter it wrote to the Nigeria Exchange Limited. The letter was dated October 28, 2021.     FBN Holdings’ Board also […]

Every other day, social media brings us a picture or video of a dilapidated school somewhere in Nigeria or shares images of a distraught widow, a struggling roadside trader or street hawker, or some other hapless victims of the extremely harsh realities of living in Nigeria. Immediately, as if on cue or automated, viewers launch […]

The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Kennedy Uzoka, has said that the main priority for every staff in the bank is to always ensure customer satisfaction. This, he said, is crucial for every forward-thinking organisation such as UBA, as the customer remains  the undisputed employer.      In a […]

The best definition of kindness is not one provided by any of the world’s best dictionaries but one demonstrated by how we treat others on a daily basis. Kindness is a universal language that does not require any special knowledge, exposure, skills, training or background to understand and appreciate it as a beneficiary or observer […]

Small Medium Enterprises are the ultimate drivers of the economy, and when they are under-utilized and not given the much-needed support to thrive, it has an overriding effect on the overall growth and development of a Nation. In a demonstration of its continuous commitment to National development, FirstBank’s ‘’SMEConnect’ continues to create an atmosphere for […]

While the age-old saying and philosophy of virtue being its own reward (or seeing doing good as its own reward) remains a strong motivating factor in doing good persistently, it helps when virtue gets recognition from time to time. Even though anyone or organisation committed to doing good will keep doing so with or without […]

  Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc has urged government to faithfully follow through the Backward Integration Policy in the sugar industry as the nation stands to rake in foreign exchange up to $700millon yearly from Sugar production self-sufficiency.   Chairman of Dangote Sugar Refinery Aliko Dangote, yesterday, at its 15th Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in […]

S&P Global Ratings said changes to the boards of First Bank of Nigeria Limited and FBN Holdings (FBNH) Plc, recently directed by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), addressed the banking group’s corporate governance challenges and ensures the Nigerian banking sector’s financial stability.   In a statement, it stated that its ratings on FBN and other […]