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By Adedapo Adesanya South African football club, Mamelodi Sundowns, have emerged as the first-ever champions of the African Football League (AFL) title, defeating top Moroccan side, Wydad Athletic Club, 2-0 in Pretoria on Sunday. Sundowns trailed 2-1 from the first leg played in Casablanca last weekend, and they ensured they won by a margin of two goals with a clean sheet to engrave their names in the books of history. The South African Premier Soccer League side sealed a 3-2 aggregate win to claim the top prize. Sundowns striker, Peter Shalulile, returning to the team after weeks out with injury,

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By Aduragbemi Omiyale An innovative initiative called Omo Adugbo, designed to tackle the high rate of unemployment among youths across Nigeria, has been introduced by a foremost bookmaker, BetWGB. This schemed, which is part of the company to bridge the youth unemployment gap in the country, involves the provision of an outlet in each local government across the country to serve as the organisation’s contact office within the local area. By establishing these outlets across the country, BetWGB Nigeria aims to impact positively on the local economy and bridge the unemployment gap that has affected many young Nigerians. With a

By Dipo Olowookere Wife of former President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, Helen, is organising a mentorship class for Chief Executive Officers of companies in the Nigeria. The event, in its fifth edition, is slated for Saturday, December 28, 2019 at the African Broadcasting Network, Delta state, Nigeria by 2:00pm. Participants of the previous editions of the programme have testified of how valuable the class has been to their businesses. Mama Helen Oritsejafor, as she is fondly called, is a first-class entrepreneur and business tycoon, who is a practical success of how to run a viable

By Aduragbemi Omiyale Insurance companies operating in Nigeria will struggle with lower profitability indices in the 2022 financial year, a pan-African credit rating agency, Agusto & Co. Limited, has predicted. This will be caused by inflation and higher claims from the violence that led to the destruction of public and private properties during the #EndSARS protest of October 2020. During the year, insurance firms and other businesses had to shut down because of the restriction of movement put in place by the federal government to contain the spread of COVID-19. The lockdown negatively impacted insurance products distribution, especially with the

By Dipo Olowookere A businesswoman, Mrs Osibogun Bosede Adebola, has purchased over a million units of FBN Holdings stocks. Mrs Adebola is a non-executive director on the board of directors of the oldest financial institution in Nigeria. On Friday, at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), the product of the University of Ibadan, Oyo State initially bought about 202,487 units of the company’s shares at N4.85 per unit and later acquired additional 940,250 units at N4.70 each. The two transactions, according to a disclosure from the company, resulted in her accumulating a total of 1,142,737 units of the stocks at the

By Dipo Olowookere Mid-tier lender, Wema Bank Plc, on Wednesday released its audited financial result for the year ended December 31, 2017. The innovative bank, which launched ALAT, Africa’s first fully digital bank, confirmed the growth of its gross earnings by 20.07 percent from N54.36 billion in FY2016 to N65.27 billion in FY2017. The growth was supported by the launch of ALAT, Nigeria’s first fully digital bank enhancing Wema Bank’s already existing alternate platforms which recorded a combined growth rate of 205.67 percent in transactions executed and with an estimated 30,000 accounts opened monthly. In the financial results analysed by

By Modupe Gbadeyanka A powerful, but yet simple to use Unified Digital Experience Platform (UDxP) that will accelerate a CSP’s journey into digital services has been launched by global leader in providing mobility solutions, Comviva. This new initiative enables the firm to deliver an integrated, automated, intelligent bouquet of services to customers, while ensuring a frictionless experience across channels. Telecom service providers have provided the backbone to digitization for many industries. However, they have been slow to digitize their own operations and offerings, putting them at risk of becoming minor players in the emerging digital economy, leading them to lose

Some customers of Diamond Bank in the South eastern Nigeria were recently rewarded with a total sum of N25 million and a brand new SUV. The bank said move was made to appreciate its customers. This took place at the eight season of its annual Diamond Xtra Savings account draw held at the New Berry Park, Enugu State. A total of 40 winners won cash prizes of 500,000 and N1million Naira whilst a lucky winner went home with the grand prize of a Sports Utility Vehicle (popularly called a Jeep in Nigeria). Diamond Bank stated that the 40 customers that

By Adedapo Adesanya The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the six yearly Nobel Prize, has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics category for the year 2021 jointly to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann and the other half to Giorgio Parisi. Manabe and Hasselmann won for “groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems and” and “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming” while Parisi got his for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales. In a statement released

By Dipo Olowookere One of Nigeria’s most innovative banking service providers, Heritage Bank Plc, has unveiled plans to organise an annual sporting event for secondary schools in Nigeria with the aim of discovering and rewarding talents. The project known as Skoolympics, is aimed at building a heritage of champions using Lagos State for the pilot scheme. Managing Director and Chief Executive of the bank, Mr Ifie Sekibo, officially flagged off the project in Lagos, at a crowded corporate forum/ presentation. Addressing representatives of prospective brand partners at the first official press briefing, the Heritage Bank’s boss who was represented by