Yemisi Izuora Heritage Bank Plc, has said it would continue to partner with MultiChoice Nigeria Limited, owners of the DSTV and GOTV brands to bring the Big Brother Nigeria reality TV show to viewers across Africa and beyond. Mr. Fela Ibidapo, Group Head, Corporate Communications of Heritage Bank disclosed this at the grand finale of the BBNaija which held over the weekend. According to him, “we will continue to partner with Multichoice on the project because we believe in entertainment, adding that they are also interested in working with the Ex-housemates to finance Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) for…
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Yemisi Izuora The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), says it would commence cashless transactions across airports in the country in order to foster ease of payment, create payment options and improve the speed and convenience of payment The general manager corporate communications Mrs Henrietta Yakubu, in an interview in Lagos, said all necessary arrangements have been made for the smooth take off of the exercise bid to commence across the airports soon. According to Mrs Yakubu, the cashless transactions will reduce the carrying of cash as transactions will be made in different ways such as POS, money transfers adding…
Yemisi Izuora The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has injected the sum of $210 million into the inter-bank Foreign Exchange market in continuation of its efforts to sustain liquidity in the market. The apex Bank offered the sum of $100 million to authorized dealers in the wholesale segment of the market. The Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) segment received the sum of $55 million while the sum of $55 million was apportioned to invisibles such as tuition fees, medical payments and Basic Travel Allowance (BTA) A statement from the Bank’s Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, Mr. Isaac Okorafor, confirmed…
Gerard Izuora Liverpool will face Real Madrid in the Champions League final on the 26th May following a 7-6 aggregate victory over Roma on Wednesday evening. The Reds seemingly settled the contest in the first half with goals from Sadio Mane & Georginio Wijnaldum, but Roma fought back at the end when Raja Nainggolan scored twice in four minutes left the Italian side needing one goal to progress with seconds to play. After a commanding 5-2 lead from the first leg, Roma had no margin for error and made a fatal mistake just nine minutes into the match as Firmino…
Yemisi Izuora Navigate Response welcomes two new partners to its global crisis communications network to strengthen coverage in the key maritime hotspots of West Africa and the Mediterranean. Continuing pirate activity in West Africa has repeatedly drawn international media attention and presented signification local changes for shipping companies. To further strengthen the support available to our clients, Navigate Response is proud to have partnered with Caritas Communications led by Adedayo Ojo. With offices in Lagos, Nigeria and Accra, Ghana, Caritas is a leading Africa-focused reputation management and communications agency. Caritas specialises in crisis management, having developed emergency response procedures for…
Yemisi Izuora/Agency Report Fidelity Bank Plc, has increased its provision against indebted telecoms firm, 9mobile to 50 per cent. This is just as the commercial bank said it is considering issuing local debt to raise funds to boost lending. The Chief Operations and Information Officer, Gbolahan Joshua, disclosed this Wednesday, Reuters said. He said Fidelity had placed indebted telecoms firm 9mobile on a watch list and increased provisioning on its N17.3 billion loan to the company to 50 per cent. In October, it said it had taken only a five per cent impairment charge against 9mobile. Formerly Etisalat Nigeria, 9mobile…
Three communities in Numan Local government area of Adamawa State, Bolki, Bang and Gon have been attacked by armed bandits suspected to be herdsmen. Many houses were also razed down in the attack. Chairman of Numan Local Government Area, Arnold Jibla confirmed this on Wednesday. According to him, the number of casualties cannot be accounted for yet because the attack was still ongoing. When contacted, the State Police Public Relations Officer Superintendent of Police says he is yet to be briefed. Bang village, is a border community between Adamawa and Taraba States. Local residents who spoke from Bang through a…
Joseph Bakare Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Wednesday said that the least Nigerian would not describe the performance of President Muhammadu Buhari as superlative. He made the declaration even as he distanced himself from a purported report trending on the social media that he had made a U-turn on his verdict of non-performance and had declared support for President Buhari. He dissociated himself from the report in a statement by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Obasanjo ascribed the social media report to some elements in Buhari’s camp or his support group that was desperate to secure a…
Yemisi Izuora OVH Energy, has announced the commencement of its creative writing competition in commemoration of the World Creativity and Innovation week which took place from April 15-21, 2018. This competition is the 2nd edition of the company’s Prodigy series titled “So You Think You Can Write”. The Prodigy Series is an intellectually stimulating creative writing competition designed to support and encourage the art of creative writing in Nigeria, whilst proffering pragmatic solutions to business issues. This initiative was conceived in line with the United Nations 2030 sustainable development agenda and is open to Nigerians between the ages of 20-35…
Yemisi Izuora The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), has received the 2018 award for “CSR in Education” from Lagos Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LCCI) on Tuesday, May 1, 2018 at the Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos. According the Director of Advocacy & Research, LCCI, Dr. Vincent Nwani, “the objective of the annual awards is to recognise, celebrate and promote private and public institutions that have exhibited the core values of best business practices, growth through innovations, business sustainability and have positively impacted the society. This award is the outcome of a painstaking selection process from numerous entries received for this…
