Fidelity Bank Bags Award for Best SME Bank in Nigeria
Fidelity Bank Bags Award for Best SME Bank in Nigeria F idelity Bank Plc, one of the Nigeria’s foremost financial institutions, has added yet another accolade to its burgeoning collection of awards. This time, the Bank has been recognized as the ‘Best SME Bank in Nigeria’ by the Global Finance Banking & Finance Awards 2022. According to the organizers, Global Banking and Finance review, the bank was presented the award after a comprehensive review and assessment of its intervention and provision of long-term financing support for sm…
2023 APC presidential primary: Updates, Results from Eagles Square, Abuja
2023 APC presidential primary: Updates, Results from Eagles Square, Abuja The ad hoc delegates for the presidential primary election of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, are all set to elect the party’s flagbearer for the 2023 general elections. The primary election starts today, Monday, June 6th, 2022. The ruling party sold 28 forms to 28 different aspirants at the rate of N100 million each and 23 of these contestants were screened last week. Among the 23, 13 of them were said to have passed the screening exercise, according to Joh…
Lagos Schools Dominate Western Conference of MILO Basketball Championship
Lagos Schools Dominate Western Conference of MILO Basketball Championship David Hall College, Obalende, Ikoyi, and Topfield College, Ajegunle, Apapa, both in Lagos have dominated the Western Conference of the 22nd MILO Secondary Schools Basketball Championship. Their wins have qualified them to play in the National Finale of the Championship this year. Hard fighting David Hall College, Obalende, Ikoyi, Lagos, defeated the girls from Oshogbo Grammar School, Oshogbo, Osun State, 31 to 15 to emerge Champions in the girls category. In the …
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Access Bank To Fund Entrepreneurs To Boost Economy
Access Bank To Fund Entrepreneurs To Boost Economy Access Bank Plc has pledged to fund entrepreneurs, and create market access for small businesses across the country. A statement by the Deputy Managing Director of the bank, Mr Victor Etuokwu, in Abuja on Friday, said the bank remained resolute in its drive to engage and empower Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). Etuokwu made the pledge during an interactive session with customers in the MSME sector. He said the bank viewed MSMEs as critical segments of the economy, noting that …
Tiwa Savage: Olamide declined feature after writing 49-99
Tiwa Savage: Olamide declined feature after writing 49-99 Tiwa Savage has revealed how rap star and record label executive, Olamide declined a feature after writing her 2019 single, 49-99. Savage made this known during a chat with Ayo Shonaiya for a documentary on Afrobeats entitled Afrobeats the Backstory. The 42-year-old singer and mother of one revealed that the song was written by Olamide and when she asked him to feature on it, he declined to say he wrote and composed the song for her not for him to feature or perform it. Savage also reve…
Buhari’s senior aide rallies support for Tinubu
Buhari’s senior aide rallies support for Tinubu Mallam Ya’u Darazo, Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Special Duties, has urged Nigerians, especially members of the All Progressives Congress(APC), to ignore the malicious attempt by opponents of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to misrepresent what he told party leaders and delegates in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Thursday. Darazo, in a statement he signed in his personal capacity as supporter of the presidential ambition of Tinubu, noted the distortion of what the frontline presidential…
Stanbic IBTC Holdings links earnings rise to loans growth
Stanbic IBTC Holdings links earnings rise to loans growth Chief Executive, Stanbic IBTC Holdings, Demola Sogunle has linked the bank’s uptick in earnings in the 2021 financial year to increased loan volumes and assets growth. Speaking during the bank’s 10th Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Lagos, the bank chief said: “We attained a record high of N946.3 billion (N665.3 billion in December 2020) on our gross loans, as we prudently grew loan volumes by 44 per cent. This further stabilised our earning capabilities for the foreseeable future, as we…
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