Foremost financial institution in Nigeria, Union Bank, had entered into a partnership with the country’s first and leading online travel company, Wakanow.com, in a bid to improve business turnover of the company’s affiliates. The deal, according to a statement made available to Aproko247, was signed to provide a global limit of N1 billion overdraft with…
Nigeria’s foremost financial institution, Guaranty Trust Bank plc, GTBank, recently made Africa proud when it emerged the ‘Best Bank in Africa’ at the 2014 Euromoney Awards. The Bank was also named the ‘Best Bank in Nigeria’ at the same event. This now made GTBank to become first Nigerian Bank to win Euromoney ‘Best Bank in…
Policemen, as Nigerians have been made to believe by the Nigeria Police Force, are meant to be citizens’ friends, but in reality, they have mostly become enemies. There are many cases of extra-judicial killings by these ‘men in black’, as police officers are sometimes called by Nigerians, due to the colour of their uniform. It…
Union Bank is in the news, and this time, for the wrong reason. The bank has been dragged to Magistrate’s Court sitting at the Ojokoro, Agbado area of Lagos by an 87-year-old woman, Mrs Sanusi Adebisi, who claimed an amount of money was allegedly removed from her account without her consent. The aged woman, a…
In this part of the world where women are still struggling to have a strong voice in a male-dominated society, Diamond Bank, a leading retail bank in Africa, has shown that it cares about the female gender. This was evident when the respected bank recently launched the ‘Diamond Woman’, specifically designed to cater to the…
The name, Tony Usidamen, is synonymous with class and expertise. No wonder this suave and upwardly mobile man was able to record groundbreaking successes when he was the Head of Corporate Communications at Dana Group. And like the Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Usidamen has decided to climb to the next level in the pyramid. …
As a result of the leadership style and giant strides achieved by the Group Managing Director and CEO of Diamond Bank Plc, Dr Alex Otti, the Public Policy Research and Analysis Centre, PPRAC, at an event organised recently, has honoured the Bank’s boss with the 2013 Zik Leadership Prize. This Otti won in the Professional…
Frauds, undoubtedly, cannot be totally taken away in financial institutions as big as Fidelity Bank, but when such becomes rampant, it gives customers several reasons to worry and probably, have their hearts in the mouths. This can probably best describe the situation of things with customers of the financial institution that ironically prides itself as…
Shareholders of FCMB Group Plc have unanimously commended the financial institution for it performance in 2013. The investors also approved the payment of a cash dividend of 30 kobo per ordinary share, for the year ended December 31, 2013. This translates to a total amount of N5.94billion. The decision was reached at the first Annual…
Two leading players in their respective industries; Diamond Bank and Wakanow, have put heads together to put smiles on the faces of Nigerian travellers. Diamond Bank is one of Nigeria’s foremost retail banks, while Wakanow is regarded as Nigeria’s leading online travel company. The new deal, Aproko247 learnt, will see the introduction of the Wakanow…