Ms. Oyinkansola Olayiwola is a graduate of English Language from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye in Ogun State. She had been admitted to read Law and she actually started with Law but along the line, she crossed over to English Language Department to study the English Language. In this chat with Vanguard in Lagos recentl

Despite the global financial crisis, there has been increased foreign investment in microfinance sector globally, both in debt and equity, and this has quadrupled to over $13bn globally.Indeed, microfinance investing has become the flagship of the rapidly growing impact investment movement and the Nigeria’s microfinance sector is not left behind as there have been major foreign investments in sector in the past year.

The National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN) has hailed the marketing communications material deployed by various political campaign candidates during the just ended general elections in the country.

As the general elections have come to a close, insurance operators are heaving a sigh of relief that business might pick up once again.

Stakeholders in the Nigerian built sector comprising builders, consultants, operators of mortgage finance institutions and other related companies are set to embark on a capacity building training programme to the United States of America.

No fewer than 8,000 entrepreneurs across the globe in the last 25 years, have received Ernst and Young Global Limited’s ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ award, even as the company launched its West Africa chapter, with Nigeria and Ghana as focus.

Real estate developers and investors have been urged to concentrate on the development of housing in the low-end property market as a way of facilitating easier access to home ownership by Nigerians.

The World Bank and the United Kingdom (UK) Department of Foreign and International Development (DFID) have challenged governors of the 36 states of the federation to do away with elitist projects that benefit few and direct their energies towards improving the lives of the ordinary Nigerian.

Guaranty Trust Bank has introduced its mobile money product in a worldclass partnership with MTN to the Nigerian market. This development is pursuant to an approval-in-principle granted by the Central Bank of Nigeria for a pilot roll-out of mobile money services.

Nigerian leaders are at it again. This time as usual, it is a fight between the legislators and the executive arm of government over who gets what. The blueprint for government’s annual spending called the budget, is the means by which scarce resources are allocated. As at May, the federal budget is yet to be signed.

A real estate development company claimed it has invested about N3.4 billion in estate project developments across the country, with N650 million spent on projects in the federal capital territory alone.

The nation’s external reserves fell by $588 million last week, reversing the gains of the previous week.

Institute of Chartered Ac-countants of Nigeria (ICAN) needs to do a lot in sensitizing the northerners about the importance of the Institute’s examination to their future endeavours, says Commander of the 1 Brigade of the Nigerian Army in Sokoto State, Brigadier-General Tammy Dibi.

As part of efforts aimed at boosting housing stocks in the state, the Lagos State government will soon unveil new waterfront schemes developed by the Lagos State Waterfront Infrastructure Development for prospective developers.

The management of Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) is planning to recapitalise the bank to a minimum of N250 billion, a fifty-fold increase over its current capitalisation of N5 billion, over the next two years.