The second phase of a training targeted at Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (SME) owners to enhance their businesses using digital marketing strategies has commenced. The training is organised by Diamond Bank in partnership with Facebook. The training exercise, which took place across seven states (Ibadan, Abuja, Kaduna, Kano, Port- Harcourt, Aba and Umuahia) with over…
***Honours Retired Directors Pan African financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc at the weekend honoured four retiring directors while restating its commitment to ensuring strong corporate governance across the group. The four directors, who had collectively served the bank for over 40 years, were celebrated for their remarkable contributions to the group, over…
These are very bad times for customers of the Emeka Emuwa led Union Bank of Nigeria (UBN) as the bank appears to have lost its security edge over their competitors. Though, Union Bank prides itself as one of the big, strong and reliable financial institutions in Nigeria, depositors have continued to wonder how safe their…
Ace talking drummer, Gabriel Johnson aka Gabination has paid tribute to Segalink, Ruggedman, and Dolapo Badmus over their roles in championing the #EndSars campaign. The trio whom he called heroes for their role in ending police brutality in Nigeria, were celebrated during the recently-held Gabination Live & Pop. The event which was also tagged ‘Celebrating…
Former Minister of Defence, General Theophilus Danjuma (rtd), will in January 2019 address the United Kingdom Parliament over the incessant killings in North-central part of Nigeria, especially between herdsmen and farmers. Danjuma was earlier scheduled to speak to select leaders of the British House of Lords on September 5, 2018 at the instance of two…
The UBA Foundation is now accepting entries for this year’s edition of the National Essay Competition. The first prize for the competition is a N2 million educational grant for the winner to study in any African university of his or her choice, a 100% increase from N1 million which was awarded last year, while the…
Guaranty Trust Bank Plc has released its unaudited financial results for the period ended September 30, 2018 to the Nigerian and London Stock Exchanges. The results, when reviewed, showed positive performance across all financial indices, reaffirming the Bank’s position as one of the most profitable and well managed financial institutions in Nigeria. Gross earnings for…
The corpse of the foremost industrialist and philanthropist, Dr Iyayi Efionayi (MFR), on Monday, arrived the Benin airport in preparation for burial slated to take place in his country home in Egba, Uhunmwode Local Government Area of Edo, on a date to be announced by the family. Efionayi’s eldest son, Dr Caesar Osaheni-Iyayi, received the…
From Thursday, October 25 to Wednesday October 31, 2018, lovers of beer will converge in Lagos for the second edition of the Nigeria Beer Festival, which organisers promised to be filled with maximum entertainment. The event is hosted by the Lagos State government and speaking on the festival, the Permanent Secretary in the State’s Ministry…
Entrepreneurship simply put is taking the risk of running your own business. In the case of Nigeria, young Nigerians have to brave quite a myriad of challenges before they can actually float their businesses. This has, however, discouraged, aspiring Nigerians to shelf their entrepreneurship dreams. Unknown to them, being an entrepreneur does not mean you…