Lafarge Africa Plc., a leading Sub-Saharan Africa building Solutions Company and member of Holcim, a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions, hosted the graduation ceremony of the 3rd set of students from its Cement Professional Technician Program (CPTP). This reiterates the company’s commitment to youth empowerment, bridging the skills gap in the cement industry and industrial sectors,…
Nigerian carrier Dana Air has announced that it is partnering the Nigerian Economic Summit Group and The Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning (MFBNP) on the 28th Nigerian Economic Summit (NES#28), scheduled to hold on 14th and 15th November 2022, at Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja. Speaking of the airline’s partnership with Nigerian Economic Summit,…
FBNBank UK, a member of First Bank of Nigeria Limited and Subsidiaries had London, the United Kingdom painted blue as it celebrated its 40th anniversary, themed Partnership Beyond Borders, on Friday, 11 November 2022. The event which had customers, members of government functionaries and the diplomatic community, regulators, captains of industries in attendance, was convened…
One of Nigeria’s leading airline Dana Air has announced that its celebrating its 14th anniversary by gifting free tickets onboard its flights for 30 days from the 10th of November 2022. Dana Air commenced scheduled flight operations on the 10th of November 2008, with an unrivaled on-time performance, world-class in-flight service as its unique selling…
By Ayomide Otitoju President of Afreximbank , Professor Benedict Oramah has called on manufacturing concerns on the continent to scale up their production in order to boost exports outside the continent.He disclosed this while delivering a paper entitled : ” Key financing by the Afreximbank in support of Intra-Africa Trade and Investment : If people…
By Ayomide Otitoju Towards filling the gap in some plants, the Dangote Group has disclosed that it has recruited graduates of engineering and other technology-based courses and trained them on many aspects of industrial operations. Speaking at the ongoing Lagos Trade fair yesterday, the group executive director, commercial operations, Hajiya Halima Aliko-Dangote, represented by Group…
By Ayomide Otitoju The Managing Director, Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, Bellow Hassan, has called on depositors of 20 liquidated banks to proceed for verification in order for them to be paid liquidation dividend. The affected banks are ABC Merchant Bank Limited; Allied Bank of Nigeria: Alpha Merchant Bank Plc.; Amicable Bank of Nig. Limited; Commerce…
The African Development Bank Group’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) initiative has launched its second call for proposals for the Women Entrepreneurship Enablers programme, targeting women’s business associations, incubators, accelerators, women-led cooperatives, and civil society organisations,promoting the development of women entrepreneurs on the continent. AFAWA aims to unlock $5 billion in financing…
The leaders of official export credit agencies (ECAs) from the G7 nations – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom and the United States of America – were hosted by Export Development Canada in Toronto, Canada to discuss a number of pressing geopolitical, economic and sustainability matters impacting exporters and global trade flows.Discussions examined how…
