First Bank Nigeria, FBN, has been ranked as Nigeria’s number one banking brand in 2014. The bank has been so ranked for the third consecutive time. In the top 500 banking brands ranking of the world, released by The Banker Magazine, Financial Times Group and Brand Finance, United Kingdom, UK, FBN came top amongst…
Keke Marwa: New Business Frontier for Women
Driven by the need to make ends meet, many women have abandoned their traditional area of business to become commercial tricycle operators, which they consider more profitable Time was 7.30am, Tuesday, February 4, 2014, and Bose Ogunlana, 34, had just finished preparing her three children for school. She too was getting ready to leave the…
UBA Joins Convention on Business Integrity
Philips Oduoza, group managing director and chief executive officer, United Bank for Africa, UBA, is convinced of one thing – a business reputation suffers severe damage by being associated with corrupt practices in the public mind. So, in line with that conviction, he recently led the board and executive management of the bank to sign…
No Quick Fix for Power
With the many challenges facing the power reform programme, it appears Nigerians have to wait a little bit longer before they get respite from low generation of power and incessant power failure On the surface, it sounded like an explanation from someone desperate to reassure his fellow countrymen not to lose hope in the power…
No Cause for Alarm
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, finance minister, sends a 102-page document to the House of Representatives Committee on Finance, showcasing the government’s achievement so far Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, minister of finance and coordinating minister for the economy, has probably never been under as much pressure as she has experienced recently. Since mid-last year, she had at one time or…
No Cause for Alarm
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, finance minister, sends a 102-page document to the House of Representatives Committee on Finance, showcasing the government’s achievement so far Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, minister of finance and coordinating minister for the economy, has probably never been under as much pressure as she has experienced recently. Since mid-last year, she had at one time or…
A Case for the Mentally Ill
A combination of lack of access to proper medical care, social stigmatisation and poverty swells the ranks of Nigerians suffering from one form of mental illness or the other From the way he dashed into the reception of a private psychiatric hospital in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, no one was left in…
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