Nigeria primed to be Africa’s industrial powerhouse— Ex-UNIDO DG
By Yinka Kolawole A former Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), Dr Kandeh Yumkella, has said Nigeria has the essential foundations to become Africa’s industrial powerhouse but must translate its huge market, natural resources and entrepreneurial capacity into competitive production and exports. Yumkella, who identified Nigeria’s financial depth and strategic position within […]
Ecobank CEO advocates Credit Guarantee Schemes for MSME’s
CHIEF Executive Officer of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, Ade Ayeyemi, has called on the Nigerian Government to introduce Credit Guarantee Schemes for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) as a measure to hedge their risk.
Pension queues set to return as FG defaults in meeting obligations
MORE than 90,000 federal government employees could be forced to create pension queues again which the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, had eliminated.
Afrinvest Reports: Bank asset quality metrics to improve in 2017
AFRINVEST Limited has said that banks asset quality metrics is expected to improve in 2017, even as the banking sector continues to experience further widening in the gap between tier-1 and tier-2 bank market share.
APC’ll concentrate on grassroots empowerment —Kachikwu
MINISTER of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, weekend, said the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, will further concentrate on the empowerment of the grassroots in moving all Nigerians from poverty to wealth.
Insurance stocks have prospect for higher returns as economy improves — CEO Consolidated Hallmark
For us, much as we are on threshold of raising the money, we still felt it was better to combine our operations and we decided to look for other partners
