Pan-African financial Institution, United Bank for Africa Plc got double honours over the weekend as it emerged the Bank of the year 2019; while its Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Kennedy Uzoka, also emerged CEO of the year at the Business Hallmark Newspaper Awards, held at the Civic Centre in Lagos on Sunday. Uzoka…
Day: November 13, 2019
Stanbic IBTC Wins 5 Awards At 2019 FMDQ Gold Awards
Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, member of the Standard Bank Group, has won five awards at the 2019 edition of the FMDQ Gold Awards which held on Friday, November 8 at the Oriental Hotel, Lagos. Stanbic IBTC Bank PLC, a subsidiary of Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, emerged the overall winner in the Secondary Market category, winning…
Stanbic IBTC Gives Limbless Children Succour Via Together4ALimb Initiative
Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, a member of Standard Bank Group, has continued its quest to provide succour for children living without limbs through its Together4ALimb initiative. The scheme, now in its fifth year, is the company’s flagship CSI initiative, through which it provides prosthetic limbs to children from underserved communities suffering from limb loss. On…
Rescuing African Agriculture from Climate Change
Ministers of agriculture from 30 African countries, including Nigeria recently met to discuss actionable solutions to the threat posed by climate change to agriculture in Africa. The meeting was the 2nd annual ministerial conference of the Adapting African Agriculture (AAA) Initiative, themed “Food Security Facing Climate Change”. The 2-day conference which was held at the…
Lagos, Ogun Produce 2019 Cowbellpedia Mathematics Champions
In a trilling, but energy-sapping mental duel last weekend, representatives of Lagos and Ogun States shrugged off all challenges to emerge victorious in the finals of season 5 of the Cowbellpedia Secondary Schools Mathematics Television Quiz Show sponsored by Cowbell Milk, the flagship brand of Promasidor Nigeria Limited. In an electrifying final battle of the…
Top Global Designers Storm Lagos For “Style By Zenith 2.0” Lifestyle Fair
Top global designers and brands will storm Lagos for the “Style by Zenith 2.0” Fair, the second edition of Zenith Bank’s highly anticipated Lifestyle Fair, which holds from Friday, November 29 to Sunday, December 1, 2019 at the Eko Energy City, Eko Atlantic, Victoria Island, Lagos. Some of the top designers billed to feature at…