By Sanya Ademiluyi, editorA usually upbeat President Muhammadu Buhari was pictured looking glum as he pored over the Budget 2022 presented to him as approved by the National Assembly. The document looked nothing like what he had presented to the legislative chambers over a month ago,while asking or a quick approval process. True enough, the […]Continue Reading
Ecobank Nigeria Plc has appointed Jide Sipe as the new head of the bank’s marketing and Communications. Sipe joins the bank from Heirs Insurance where he held a similar position.Sipe is an experienced banking corporate communications hand, having worked for several years at rival GTBank where he was head of corporate communications for several years.Sipe […]Continue Reading
Leading commercial bank, Access Bank has been granted a $50 million loan facility by the International Finance Corporation, IFC for onward lending to Small to Medium Scale businesses in the country, July 19,2020.Access is the third Nigerian commercial bank to benefit from IFC’s SMEs financing facility in the past four week period. Others are GTB […]Continue Reading
The Buhari administration is proposing a new N15 trillion state-owned infrastructure company which will be led by the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, Governor of the bank has said.Emefiele who revealed this in his press briefing following the meeting of the Monetary policy Committee of the CBN, July ,2020 however, did not disclose how […]Continue Reading
The Rada ,Ukraine’s parliament, has approved President Zelenskiy’s nomination of Kyrylo Shevchenko, CEO of state-owned Ukrgasbank, as the new Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU),mid July. Shevchenko replaces Yakiv Smoliy who resigned abruptly on July 3,2020, citing political pressure.“ Given the very sensitive nature of Smoliy’s departure and accusations, in Continue Reading