As students get set to resume another academic session, FastCash, powered by First City Monument Bank (FCMB), is offering parents and guardians up to N200,000 to help them cover the costs of school fees and back-to-school supplies. The credit line supports the purchase of school uniforms, books, bags, confectionaries, and other items required to enhance…
ProvidusBank has restated its commitment to supporting its clients in the quest to grow a sustainable export-based domestic economy.The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, ProvidusBank, Walter Akpani, stated this in his welcome address at the financial institution’s hybrid 3rd Non-Oil Export Summit in Lagos. Akpani who was represented by the Deputy Managing Director ProvidusBank, Mr. Kingsley…
By Ayomide Otitoju the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) a multi stakeholder partnership to facilitate sharing of intellectual property (IP) knowledge and innovations has announced three new licensing agreements acquired through the medicines patent pool MPPthe agreements include the following licenses to transfer know how materials and clinical data needed in different countries: medigen vaccine…
A judge in the United States has ruled that an 84-year-old white homeowner who shot and seriously injured a Black teenager after he mistakenly went to the man’s house must stand trial. Missouri’s Clay County Judge Louis Angles issued the ruling on Thursday after hearing from several witnesses at a preliminary hearing, including Ralph Yarl,…
Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, next week as Ankara and the United Nations seek to revive a Ukraine grain export deal that helped ease a global food crisis. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that Putin and Erdogan would meet on Monday in Russia’s Black…
Fidelity Bank Plc says it will help schools to prepare adequately for the next session and deliver quality education as summer break gets to an end. In a statement, it said through its product known as the Fidelity Edu Loan, administrators of registered private primary, secondary and tertiary institutions in Nigeria could access loans of…
The former Chief Executive of Stanbic IBTC Holdings, Sola David-Borha, has sold 615,812 units of the lender’s shares. In a notice on the director’s dealings, it was revealed that David-Borha carried out the transaction on Thursday on the platform of the Nigerian Exchange Limited. The shares sold at an average rate of N63.21 per unit,…
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry has said that the removal of fuel subsidy and unification of exchange rates in the country negatively impacted the growth of businesses in the first half of the year. The President of the LCCI, Michael Olawale-Cole, represented by his deputy, Gabriel Idahosa stated this during the half-year economic…
A non-executive director of Sterling Financial Holdings Plc, Abubakar Suleiman, has increased his stakes in the group by 7,882,228 units. Suleiman, who is also the chief executive officer of Sterling Bank, purchased the shares on Tuesday and Wednesday on the Nigerian Exchange Platform in Lagos, according to an insider trading notice filed with the Nigerian…
