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…Governor commends initiative In continuation of its efforts aimed at creating wider access to health care for less privileged Nigerians, Dangote Foundation at the weekend took free health care services to the door steps of the vulnerable and poor ones in Katsina state.  Thousands of ailing people, including sickly elderly and malnourished children alike trooped […]

Antonio Canto, Vice President, Regional Adsales, Europe, Middle-East and Africa (EMEA), CNN International, ‎on Friday night said that CNN is proud of the feats attained by Glo-sponsored African Voices TV magazine  programme since it hit the airwaves in 2009.    Canto‎ made the remark at a cocktail dinner held for the stakeholders of the popular programme proudly […]

Nigerians were clearly bewildered by the recent wild swings in the Naira Exchange rate. Regrettably, however, despite Godwin Emefiele’s earlier assurances to the contrary, the Naira was officially devalued from N155=$1 to N165 and later to N197=$1 within his first year as Central Bank Governor. Expectedly, the dollar rate quickly skipped beyond N220=$1 in the […]Read More

FBN Holdings Plc., the leading and most diversified financial services group in Nigeria has announced the appointment of Mr. Muhammad K. Ahmad to its Board as a Non-Executive Director. This appointment, apart from deepening the already rich cumulative experience of the board, is also in strict compliance with the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) Guidelines […]

The United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has announced a training grant support of $997.4m for the proposed refinery by the Dangote Group. The grant was announced at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Dangote Group and the USTDA on Thursday.   Dangote Group had in May declared that the proposed […]

An impressive collection of organizations have come together to answer President Barack Obama’s call at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit yesterday in Nairobi, Kenya, to advance entrepreneurship and economic growth around the world. Representatives of the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN), Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) and Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) participated in a formal signing ceremony at the […]

First Bank of Nigeria Limited, a subsidiary of FBN Holdings PLC and Nigeria’s Most valuable bank brand, has again demonstrated its commitment towards the promotion of the creative arts through its initiative First@arts. The Bank has developed this initiative through a strategic partnership with Lork Enterprise LLP, managers of Freedom Park, British Council, and Ebony […]

  FBN Capital Limited (“FBN Capital”) announces it has facilitated in the closing of an up to $445 million Syndicated Medium Term Facility with Accugas Limited (“Accugas”). Accugas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Seven Energy International Ltd (“Seven Energy”), is the gas processing, marketing and distribution arm of the Seven Energy Group. The signed Syndicated […]

As part of Tony Elumelu’s $100 million commitment to empowering African entrepreneurs, 1,000 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs, representing 51 African countries from the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) Class of 2015, converged near Lagos, Nigeria for an intensive two-day bootcamp session, an unprecedented gathering of emerging African entrepreneurs, from 10-12 July, 2015.  
The entrepreneurs travelled from across […]

The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has described the World Bank N39.4 billion loan approval for Lagos state as unwarranted. The position of CACOL came on the heels of the recent release that the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank has approved $200m (about N39.4bn) credit to Lagos State to support a range […]

    Consistent with FirstBank’s thought leadership stance, the bank’s GMD/CEO, Bisi Onasanya will be participating in the C-suite panel on ”The Nigerian Banking Environment in a Low Oil Price World” at the maiden edition of The Nigerian Stock Exchange/Bloomberg CEO Roundtable scheduled to hold at The Event Centre of the NSE on June 25, […]