Nigeria’s economy may experience investments inflow in 2015 as the local currency appreciates by over seven percent. The battered Naira, which sold for between 228 and 230 to a dollar at Bureau de Change (BDC) weeks to the just concluded presidential election, has appreciated to about 208 -211 to the dollar. Though the inter-bank rate still stands at 197, experts are of the opinion that the exchange rate at BDC can go below 200, as many individuals who stockpiled dollars during the presidential campaigns are already selling it after the poll.

The Corporate Social Responsibility of one of the leading telecommunication in Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria has once again showed the need to help people that face everyday challenges. Passion and outlook reflect off by the premier episode of the focused television series, Airtel Touching Lives, has continued to celebrate and assist beneficiaries. Life in a rural community can be difficult and people still struggle to have a decent life, it is more difficult for people that are single and do not have support from their family; Hear the story of Mama Mercy who is a barren and has suffered most of her life as a result of rejection by her family and her community.

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.