Segun Ogunsanya Emerges African Business Leader of the Year

By Adedapo Adesanya Fils has launched a platform to help global businesses turn intent into action when integrating sustainable values into the core of digital payments. The new innovation paves the way for trust and safety in carbon markets, bringing together buyers with capital, and suppliers with high-integrity carbon credits, at the rate and scale required to rebalance the planet.  Designed as a holistic, enterprise-grade B2B2C product offering, Fils leverages the power of leading technologies for its end-to-end infrastructure to transform various industries, including financial services, hospitality, and e-commerce. This makes it easier for businesses to act on the core

By Adedapo Adesanya  The Vice President,  Mr Kashim Shettima,  has said the private sector forms an integral half of the crucial foundation that holds the Nigerian government, noting that President Bola Tinubu is committed to creating an environment that fosters entrepreneurship and innovation. This, according to him, explains why the president’s vision for Nigeria is grounded in eight priority areas, including poverty eradication, economic growth, job creation, and equitable access to capital. The Vice President spoke on Thursday while commissioning some projects, including the Ijele 93.1 FM Radio Station, Phase Two of the Sir Emeka Offor Foundation (SEOF) Touch-a-Life Housing

By Modupe Gbadeyanka An initiative aimed to promote the diversity of the African continent and showcase its rich cultural heritage to the rest of the world has been launched by YouTube. The social campaign, The Voices of Africa, will be used to celebrate the continent’s unique and traditional expressions through a select group of African creators. They will create and share videos on their YouTube Channels of their unique cultural heritage stories about their local traditions and practices, conversations with friends and family, and with people in their local communities. Some of the creators who are part of the campaign

By Adedapo Adesanya Wema Bank has unveiled the 2020 edition of the Wema Hackathon tagged ‘Hackaholics 2.0’, which will mark the second edition of the innovative programme of the institution. The event will be hosting participants virtually in a two-day pitch competition from October 30 -31 to exhibit innovative solutions with excellent market potential, capable of solving essential, everyday business problems. This year’s edition will seek to provide innovative solutions under five major verticals – Agritech, Healthtech, Edutech, Fintech, and Gaming and startups can win up to $40,000 in prizes. The successful startups will proceed to a 4-week Accelerator Bootcamp

By Modupe Gbadeyanka Last week, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) realised N500 billion from the sale of treasury bills via the secondary market. This amount realized by the apex bank from the OMO auction was enough to offset N476.21 billion T-bills which matured last Thursday. According to analysts at Cowry Asset, NIBOR fell for all tenor buckets amid sustained liquidity ease in the financial system – in line with their expectation. Specifically, NIBOR for overnight, 1 month, 3 months and 6 months tenor buckets fell w-o-w to 3 percent from 4.56 percent, 13.43 percent from 14.64 percent, 14.17 percent

By Adedapo Adesanya Crude oil prices appreciated on Friday after the International Energy Agency (IEA) advised the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) to boost supply to the market. In its monthly report, the Paris-based IEA said oil demand is expected to exceed pre-coronavirus levels by the end of 2022, urging the world producers to open the taps. Consumption declined by a record 8.6 million barrels a day last year as coronavirus raged around the world. It is expected to rebound by 5.4 million barrels per day this year as vaccines are rolled out and countries

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As part of its commitment to support access to quality education in Ghana, a foremost stakeholder in the mining industry, Geodrill, has made a donation for equipping a science laboratory complex at Achimota School. The firm, through its CEO, Mr David Harper, presented a cheque of GHS150,000 to the Old Achimotan Association (OAA) at a ceremony held on June 14. Mr Harper emphasised the importance of education to the students present and he expressed his hope that their education at Achimota School, and particularly in science, would set them on the path to successful adult careers and to contribute meaningfully

“Give me my tally number” – This would sound weird to millennials and young adults as the days of ‘tally numbers’ are long gone. Well, “who is the last person on the queue?” or “your machine has ‘swallowed’ my card”, may sound more familiar as people try to perform electronic payments using Automated Teller Machines (ATM) in the country. Well, e-payments in Nigeria has arguably taken an innovative turn since one man, Mitchell Elegbe, Founder and Group CEO of Interswitch, took it on himself to champion the vision and a series of strategic interventions over almost 2 decades towards transforming

By Dipo Olowookere The much-anticipated CashlessAfrica Expo will kick off today, Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at the Lagos Oriental Hotel and will end on Thursday, March 23, 2017. Experts will gather to discuss the future of finance in Lagos, the economic hub of Nigeria and the conversation will be on via the #CashlessExpo on Twitter. The event has attracted more than 35 speakers from 30 countries to attend what has become a leading regional digital financial services conference in West Africa. Vice President and Area Business Head for West Africa, Mastercard, Ms Omokehinde Adebanjo, will open the first day with

By Dipo Olowookere Leading fintech lending company, Renmoney, capped its activities for 2018 by hosting its staff to a memorable end of the year party. CEO of the firm, Tobi Boshoro, speaking at the event, described 2018 as splendid, saying, “It’s been an amazing year. We have learnt a lot about our customers and served them much better than we did in the past. We hope that in 2019, we’ll be able to provide our services to even more people and deliver a stronger impact on the economy.” During the ceremony, awards were issued to outstanding employees in different categories