Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) Plc said it is targeting profit before tax of N125 billion for its full year ended December 2016, and will also focus on the retail end of the market to optimize returns.

The African Union Commission said that blocking illicit financial outflow from Africa and repatriating the funds were important in financing the Sustainable Development Goals on the continent. The AU Commissioner for Economic Affairs, Dr Anthony Maruping, said this at a news conference at the ninth joint Annual Meeting of the AU Specialised Technical Committee for Ministers of Finance and Economic Planning.

The Rotary Club of Isolo has empowered about 20 persons with tools and equipment to further enhance local output and encourage entrepreneurship among people living within Isolo community, commissioning a one block of two classrooms at the Isolo Comprehensive Senior High School, Alabe.

Worried by the prevailing hash economic situation in the country, the Managing Director of Kuka Consumer Healthcare Limited, an indigenous pharmaceutical company, Chris Ukah, has appealed to Nigerians to support efforts of the President Muhammadu Buhari – led government so as to put the nation’s economy on the path of sustainable recovery.

Peeved with the call for another economic conference in Nigeria, Yinka Olugbodi, the chief consultant, Team Building International (TBI), a training and development organisation, in a chat, reiterates the need for President Muhamadu Buhari to engage his presidential team through management retreat in order to achieve the change he envisages