The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive of Zenith Bank, Mr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu has called for a concerted effort towards diversifying the country’s export base through the promotion of non-oil exports. He made the call during a Webinar themed “Prospects of Non-Oil Export During and Post COVID-19” organized by the bank on Wednesday, August 26, 2020. According…
Surcharge is economic sabotage, insensitive, says Shippers’ Council Tension is mounting at the nation’s sea ports where importers who are groaning under huge surcharge imposed on them by the international shipping firms on cargoes imported from across the world are threatening fire and brimstone. The surcharge, according to them is adding to the high cost…
Times have evolved so much that the normal we were used to is likely not to return to us in the near future. The new norm is digital life, the easy way experts call it. Feminitease is offering a platform for networking and growth for women entrepreneurs and an online mall specially for women based…
The leading financial technology and brands marketing publication in Africa, Africa Brands Magazine, has concluded plans to hosts the continent biggest Fintech Brands Awards in Lagos Nigeria in August, 28, 2020. The most innovative Fintech Brands Africa Awards is a celebration of Africa’s Fintech Innovators and Leaders in 2020. The award is an initiative founded…
Prudential Zenith Life Insurance has donated the sum of One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$100,000) to Slum2School Africa to help combat the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education in disadvantaged communities in Nigeria. The donation was made through a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Fund from the Prudence Foundation, the community investment arm of…
Leading consumer and SME finance company, Zedvance Finance Limited has revealed plans to empower small and medium-sized businesses with interest-free credit to catalyze their growth against the backdrop of the global economic downturn occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic. Driven by a need to create a support system for SMEs at this uncertain time, the company will be…
Stanbic IBTC Bank has said it was considering taking a legal action against Ascon Oil Limited for allegedly retaking possession of a property along Lekki Admiralty Way illegally. The two companies are at loggerheads over a petrol station in the area and recently, the oil company took over the property, citing a court order. But…
Heritage bank Plc in collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), under the Nigerian Incentive-Based Risk Sharing in Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) has continued to drive improved investment outcomes and job creation. Through this partnership, Heritage Bank is not relenting in its efforts at boosting the agriculture base of the nation to make farming profitable…
The Next Robotics Legend is an initiative designed by Edu360, Union Bank’s education platform, in collaboration with Awarri, a pan-African technology company, to infuse Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the education of the Nigerian child. This stems from the realisation that the solutions to some of our most complicated problems as a nation lie…
The United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA), the leading pan-African financial services group, has acted as an Initial Mandated Lead Arranger with a consortium of Nigerian commercial and international banks in a $1.5 Billion Pre-Export Finance Facility for Eagle Export Funding Limited, to enable the forward sale of crude by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation…