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The leadership position of the nation’s Number One Bank Brand, First Bank of Nigeria Ltd was further confirmed as it was named the Best Bank in Nigeria, at the Global Finance Awards which held at a ceremony in Washington DC, United States of America. Speaking at the awards ceremony, Joseph D. Giarraputo, Publisher of the […]

Members of the Board of UBA, Africa’s global bank were recently taken through a comprehensive training in corporate governance in line with the bank’s desire to build the capacity of the board to adequately discharge its governance duties. The two day training organized by UBA Academy in collaboration with Euromoney, took the Board members  through […]

As a measure of its growing influence in the continent, Dangote Group has emerged among Africa’s top 10 most valuable brands in 2013 in a survey conducted by African Business Magazine, a pan-African business magazine. In a survey tagged ‘The Brand Africa 100 table’, Dangote emerged as the most valuable brand in the consumer goods […]

Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke has declared that the grave phenomenon of oil theft and its global support system represents another face of terrorism that has continued to remain a cog in the wheel of the nation’s high economic growth trajectory. Alison-Madueke stated this in London recently while delivering the Keynote address at […]

In its bid to continually improve banking services and ease customers’ experience, the number one banking brand, FirstBank is set to revolutionize the way consumers and merchants facilitate payment for goods and services using social and digital media. FirstBank in conjunction with 3AL limited has built a portal to provide various services which include retail, […]

UBA Global Investor Services, a Division of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc set up in September 2007 to process securities trades, safe-keep financial assets and service associated portfolios has won this year’s Custodian Bank of the Year Award for Nigeria, 2013 by Acquisition International, an International financial research and investor information journal based on […]

Operations at ExxonMobil in Eket, Akwa Ibom State have come to an abrupt halt, as agitating people of Eket Communities took to the streets on Thursday to say enough is enough. The mass protest, which was staged simultaneously around Mobil facilities namely the Airstrip in Eket, Mobil Terminal in Ibeno and Mobil Housing Estate in Eket saw […]

Newcross Petroleum Limited, the Operator of OPL 283 (formerly OML56) and its partner, Rayflosh Petroleum, under a Production Sharing Contract with NNPC (as the concessionaire), has announced the Efe discovery with the support of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR). According to Mr. Evi Otobo of the Exploration Unit, […]

Following the successful mobilization of $9 billion investment in refining and petrochemical sub sector of the petroleum industry, President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote has declared that only an enabling environment provided by all stakeholders in the industry will ensure meaningful investment in local oil and gas industry and ensure sustainable growth and development of […]

 Insinuations in some quarters that the recent spate of divestments from certain onshore oil blocks by some international oil companies (IOC) may lead to crisis in the nation’s oil and gas industry have been dispelled by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Speaking to journalists on the margins of the ongoing World Energy Congress in […]

President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote has been appointed to co-chair 2014 World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos-Kloster, Switzerland. The Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, Prof. Klaus Schwab in his invitation letter to the business mogul, said Aliko Dangote’s participation as co-chair will contribute significantly to the substance and relevance of exchanges […]

As part of intervention initiative in the focus area of health, Dangote Foundation on October 1, 2013, laid the foundation for the construction of 1,000 bed capacity ultramodern medical theatre complex and a diagnostic laboratory within Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital in Kano State The ultramodern medical theatre complex which has been named Mariya Sanusi Dantata […]