African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) has confirmed key senior-level positions that would play an important role in steering critical support to member governments.
The appointments, which were approved by the Board of Directors, included a veteran of the World Bank’s IFC, Manuel Moses, who has been appointed as the new...
President Muhammadu Buhari has warmly felicitated with former Chairman of Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), Sam Ohuabunwa, on his 70th birthday on August 16, joining friends and family members to celebrate the visionary leader, whose competence and influence have greatly impacted on the Nigerian economy and beyond.
Buhari congratulated Ohuabunwa,...
New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), a socio-economic flagship programme of the African Union Development Agency (AUDA), otherwise called AUDA-NEPAD, has launched the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Academy, in partnership with Ecobank Group.
Spearheaded under AUDA-NEPAD '100,000 MSMEs by 2021' (100K MSMEs) programme for Africa’s Micro, Small and...
President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja assented to the Companies and Allied Matters Bill, 2020 recently passed by the National Assembly.
The President’s action on this important piece of legislation, therefore, repealed and replaced the extant Companies and Allied Matters Act, 1990, introducing after 30 years, several corporate legal innovations...
A pan-African investment company, Heirs Holdings, has announced the appointment of Dan Okeke as the Group Executive Director with effect from August 1.
Okeke has had a distinguished three-decade career at the United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA), where he recently served as an Executive Director in charge of leading...
The management of Bristow Helicopters Limited has terminated the appointment of no fewer than 100 pilots.
Bristow Helicopters, in a statement on Tuesday, said those sacked comprised both Nigerian nationals and expatriates working with the company.
It explained that the decision to sack the pilots was due to the severe impact...
One of Africa’s largest food retailers, Shoprite, has announced plans to exit the Nigerian market after posting continuous losses from its operations in the world's populous Black nation.
Shoprite, in a trading update filed at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) on Monday morning, said it was planning to discontinue its...
The Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun on Wednesday signed Today into law the Revised 2020 Appropriation Bill, which reduced the state's budget from 449.97 billion Naira to 280 billion Naira.
In a statement by the Governor, the revision of the Budget which was presented to Abiodun by the Speaker...
A Togo-based Ecobank Academy has made history to become the first corporate member of the Global Business School Network (GBSN).
GBSN has been building management education capacity in and for the developing world for over 17 years.
The core of the network spans six continents with more than 100 leading business...
Mrs. Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe is expected to take over from Mr. Nnamdi Okonkwo as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Bank Plc effective January 1, 2021.
The bank disclosed this on Monday in a notice by the Company Secretary, Ezinwa Unuigboje, to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and the general...
