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Guaranty Trust Bank Plc has set a strategic plan to sell its 67.68 per cent equity stake in Guaranty Trust Assurance Plc, to Assur Africa Holding for a consideration of N11.910 billion. The completion, which is subject to regulatory approvals, is expec...
The government has mandated Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) to serve as sovereign credit ratings advisor for the country. The British Prime Minister to Nigeria, David Cameron , the Minister of State for Finance of Nigeria, Dr. Yerima Ngama and the Group ...
Niger Insurance Plc has announced that it would reward the shareholders of the company with a bonus of one for 10 for the audited year ended December 2010. A cursory look at the company’s corporate actions made available to the NSE, also showed t...
The Managing Director of Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc, Mr. Wale Onaolapo has said that the company was reinforcing for a better return on investment. Onaolapo who disclosed this to newsmen in Lagos recently, said the current performance of the company...
The board of International Energy Insurance (IEI) Plc has appointed Mrs. Roseline Ekeng as the new managing director/ chief executive officer of the company. The appointment, which was made recently at the board’s meeting, was to fill the vacancy...
Minority shareholders of the Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) Plc, weekend in Lagos at the Extra-Ordinary General Meeting ordered by the court strongly voted against delisting of the company from the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) insisting that the comp...
Guinness Nigeria Plc is collaborating with its United Kingdom parent company, Diageo Plc, to invest £225million (N55 billion) to expand the capacity of its brewing operations. The formal announcement of the investment came on the heels of the rec...
Representatives from 400 youth groups will gather in New York tomorrow to attend a high-level meeting on youth convened by the General Assembly to discuss a wide range of issues of concern to the younger generation, including jobs, poverty and sustaina...
Managing director of Capital Oil and Gas Ltd., Lagos, Mr Ifeanyi Ubah, has said that the company supplied more than 100,000 litres of kerosene to consumers weekly in the metropolis. Ubah told the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) on Saturday in Lagos that th...
The Nigerian fashion industry has grown by leaps and bounds in the past decade, with the practitioners taking the art of fashion designing making to an unprecedented height.One of the major players on the scene, Mrs Folake Majin, shares her story in a ...
The Lord wants to make every believer a minister, conqueror and champion. He has set up a five-fold ministry to make the church function adequately and grow. Born to reproduce and saved to serve, every believer must work towards becoming effective in h...
For someone who had just undergone surgery, Hussein Abdul-Azeez looked incredibly strong and cheery as he lay on a hospital bed in Asokoro General Hospital. The plasters on his right shoulder were the only evidence that less than half an hour earlier h...
Chinwuba Kenechukwu Igbokwe is the second son of the late Christy ‘The Lady of Songs’ Essien-Igbokwe, MFR. In this interview with OLAOLU OLADIPO, he reveals that despite her fame, his late mother was an excellent mother and wife. Sandwiched...
Death, they say, is inevitable but not all mortals know how they will return to their creator. SAMUEL ARUWAN revisits the circumstances surrounding the brutal murder of a teenager, Yusuf Sai’du, by one Mallam Basiru, who is now at large, for alle...
A university don and head of transport management at the Ladoke Akintola University (LAUTECH), Ogbomosho, Dr. Bambo Somuyiwa is conversant with the country’s economy and problems. He has over 40 research publications mainly on transport, logistic...