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Crowdfunding: Alternative source for SMEs financing

Crowdfunding: Alternative source for SMEs financing

By Yinka Kolawole THE challenge for the average entrepreneur at the early stage is usually financing to fund their business idea or start up. The banks won’t give loans, family and friends don’t believe in the ideas enough to lend you the money and even if you sold your belongings to raise the money, you […]

‘MSMEs constrained by absence of structures, operating environment’

‘MSMEs constrained by absence of structures, operating environment’

CHIEF Executive Officers of Business Development Service Providers (BDSPs) organisations have identified numerous factors inhibiting the growth and development of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to include lack of adequate structures and harsh operating environment, amongst others. The BDSPs CEOs, unfolded the challenges during the Bank of Industry (BoI) customers’ engagement forum, tagged “Growing MSMEs in Lagos and Ogun States: The Challenges and Prospects.”

Zenith Bank shareholders okay N63.4bn dividend

Zenith Bank shareholders okay N63.4bn dividend

SHAREHOLDERS of Zenith Bank Plc, yesterday, unanimously endorsed the final dividend of N55.573 billion, bringing the total dividend for the year ended December 31, 2016 to N63.422 billion. This represents a final dividend per share to shareholders at N2.02 from N1.77 per share declared in the corresponding period of 2015.

Anambra indigenes in Kaduna sue Obiano, others over revoked land

Anambra indigenes in Kaduna sue Obiano, others over revoked land

INDIGENES of Anambra State residing in Kaduna have dragged the Anambra State government, the state Commissioner of Police and a private developer to court over the state government’s alleged revocation of over 200 plots of land allocated to them by the earstwhile governor of the state, Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju in 2000.