Barely a month after Stanbic IBTC Stockbrokers Limited won the ‘Best Dealing Member’ on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Chief Executive of Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc, Mrs. Sola David-Borha, has been named among the top chief executives of companies listed on the Exchange. At the 2015 ‘Top 25 CEOs Awards’, organized by Businessday, which held on Friday, March 20, 2015 at the Wheatbaker Hotel, Ikoyi, Lagos, David-Borha was honoured for her contributions in the evolution of the Stanbic IBTC Group into a leading end-to-end financial solutions provider, and a blue chip quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

It is no longer news that Skye bank recently acquired Mainstreet Bank, formerly Afri Bank of Nigeria. What is news is whether this is going to be Nigeria’s newest mega bank.? It was late literary giant, Prof Chinua Achebe that stated in his novel, Things Fall Apart that a chick that will grow into a cock will be spotted the very day it was hatched.

Ivory Coast said on Thursday it is banning the import of poultry from avian flu-hit Burkina Faso to prevent the spread of the disease.

CROSS — Border or intra-African investments also known as Africans investing in Africa (AIA) is growing by more than 30 percent per annum.

Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCo, has reportedly shut down its flow stations in Southern Ijaw and Ekeremor Local Government Areas of Bayelsa state following anxiety that ex-militants may attack the facilities because of the outcome of presidential election.