MSMEs Crucial to Providing Employment to Growing Workforce – Peugeot Boss

The Managing Director/CEO, Peugeot Automobile Nigeria, Mr. Ibrahim Boyi has called for stakeholders’ support for Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) describing them as having the capacity to absorb the nation’s growing workforce. Boyi made this call yesterday while speaking as the Keynote Speaker at the Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN) MSME Summit held…

Heritage Bank Pledges Continued Support For Women Empowerment

Heritage Bank Plc has said it will continue to lend support to causes that promote women empowerment as this will impact positively on the nation’s socio-economic development. Managing Director, Heritage Bank, Ifie Sekibo, stated this at the “Raising Girls Summit ‘19” which held in Lagos last Friday as part of activities to commemorate the International…

Transcorp Records N6.7bn Profit After Tax in Q3; Maintains A Positive Revenue Outlook

Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc (Transcorp) yesterday announced its financial results for the third quarter ended 30 September 2019. Highlights of the result show the Group recorded a Gross revenue of N58.28bn and posted a Profit Before Tax (PBT) of N7.36bn for the period under review. Total Assets increased from N297.14bn as of FY 2018…

Lagos SCID Trains Police Officers On Community Engagement

In addition to efforts of the Nigeria Police Force and Lagos Police Command to further strengthen Community Policing and ensure maximum safety of lives and properties in the state, the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Lagos on Monday trained police officers on community engagement and security services. The one-day workshop, which was approved by the…

Stanbic IBTC Graduates 16th Batch Of Trainees

As part of its youth empowerment and socio-economic drive, Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, a member of the Standard Bank Group, recently graduated the 16th batch of Graduate Trainees. Stanbic IBTC’s Graduate Trainee programme is a scheme which recruits talented young Nigerians, who are either straight out of school or have minimal work experience. They are…

Expert Advises Nigerians as Mouka ‘Walks For Wellness And Health’

A medical practitioner, Dr Zubair Abdullahi has advised Nigerians to take the issue of their personal health seriously as Mouka, the nation’s leading mattress manufacturing company staged a health walk around Ikeja, Lagos on Friday, to sensitize its staff and Nigerians on wellbeing as part of activities marking its 60th anniversary in Nigeria. Abdullahi explained…

PHOTOS: Buhari, Heritage Bank, Zamfara, Others Discuss Solid Mineral Development

In a bid to boost the nation’s economic growth, Heritage, Zamfara State Government and the Pan African Capital, at the just concluded Russian-African Summit in Sochi, Russia, held a meeting to brief President Muhammadu Buhari on the African Export Import Bank cooperation with Zamfara on solid minerals development put together by the two aforementioned financial…

GTBank Removes All Bank Charges For Young Undergraduates On GTCRea8 Account Product

If you are an undergraduate, between the ages of 16-25, then you can now bank for free with Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank). The leading, youth-focused, financial institution has announced that it will cover all charges on transfers, USSD transactions and bank alerts for holders of its GTCrea8 Account, a bespoke banking product for young undergraduates…