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In pursuit of its Project Alpha plans, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has announced key appointments to drive its quest for industry leadership by 2015.  UBA’s Project Alpha is a 3-year road map of key transformation initiatives, designed to reinforce the Group’s strategic positioning and leverage its huge Africa presence to fully exploit the […]

Shareholders of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc Friday unanimously endorsed the bank’s annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December, 2013 just as they commended the board and management for sustaining the bank’s profitability, despite the challenging operating environment. Speaking at the bank’s Annual General Meeting, held at the Oriental Hotel, […]

American weekly magazine TIME, has named the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance of Nigeria, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in its 2014 TIME 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Okonjo-Iweala was listed under the “Leaders” category alongside China’s President Xi Jinping; United States Secretary of State, […]

…trains building materials dealers in Benin The nation’s foremost cement manufacturer , Dangote Cement last week expressed its willingness to partner members of Lagos State Bricklayers Association(LSBA) towards eliminating the spate of collapse building in Lagos even as the cement company collaborated with Standard Organisation of Nigeria(SON) to train building materials dealers in Benin, Edo  […]

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has said that the Minister of Petroleum Resources and Chairman of NNPC board, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke and the Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Engr. Andrew Yakubu are in harmonious working relationship and dismissed insinuations in some quarters of a phantom frosty relationship between the two key figures in […]

Cement dealers and distributors in the South West have endorsed the newly packaged Dangote cement’s 42.5 grade (3X) and expressed optimism that the entry into the market of the product would help sanitize the building and construction industry. Phoning in from different states in the region, callers during a live Yoruba programme of the Radio […]

In a bid to ensure a hitch free Easter celebration across the Nation, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and its downstream subsidiary the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, PPMC,  has injected 293, 326, 011 million litres of premium motor spirit otherwise called petrol into filling stations across  the country . Besides, major and Independent […]

One of Africa’s largest banking groups, Access Bank Plc, has announced its audited result for the financial year ended December, 2013. An analysis of the results released on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange today validated the Bank’s capacity for sustainable growth.  The results showed an increase in the Bank’s deposit base from N1.201 […]

To create maximum awareness on the competitive advantages of its new 42.5 cement grade, Dangote cement has embarked training of block makers from the South East on the proper use of the new cement and physical demonstration of sandcrete mixing with the 3x. The training came even as the Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines […]

UBA Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, weekend intensified its awareness campaign against Prostate Cancer through an initiative tagged ‘Cycling for Prostate Cancer’. The cycling event, which is the fourth edition of the Foundation’s annual prostate cancer awareness initiative, held in conjunction with ‘Jogging to Bond’; the employee […]

Dangote Cement Plc has clarified that the reason for the introduction of the higher cement grade the 52.5N, was to offer consumers variety of choices in their quest for quality products. This is just as block makers commended the initiatives of the cement company in producing a higher grade of the product at a time […]

To his admirers and detractors, he is certainly an intriguing personality. His calm mien makes it easy to underestimate him, but that will be at your peril. Mr Femi Otedola, needs no introduction.  Rich, successful and sometimes controversial, he is the second Nigerian to ever make the Forbes annual list of the world’s richest people.  […]