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2024 Financial Year: UBA Grows Profit to N804bn, Declares N3.00 Kobo Final Dividend

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Africa’s Global Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has released its audited financial results for the full year ended December 31, 2024, with all major indicators witnessing significant improvement. The 2024 financials, filed with the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGx) on Monday, showed an impressive rise in the bank’s profit after tax which went up […]

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Tony Elumelu Foundation Donates $15m to Young African Entrepreneurs

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The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has announced a $15 million grant to support 3,000 budding entrepreneurs from 52 African countries. TEF Founder, Mr Tony Elumelu, made this known recently in Abuja during the unveiling of the 2025 cohort of the foundation’s Entrepreneurship Programme. He stated that each beneficiary would receive a $5,000 seed grant to […]

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ICT Experts Echo Need For More Than CNII Order To Secure Telecom Investments

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Industry leaders have identified important measures to secure telecommunications infrastructures in the country and ensure that investments in the telecoms space are protected. They argued that as much as the effective implementation of the Executive Order on the Designation and Protection of Critical National Information Infrastructure (CNII) is important, the Order cannot solely guarantee infrastructure […]

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Lagosians Hail Dangote over Impact of National Food Relief Programme; As rice Distribution Spreads Across beneficiary Local Govts

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Chairman of the Aliko Dangote Foundation and Africa’s wealthiest person has continued to draw widespread commendation over the socio-economic impact of his national food relief programme, as the Foundation continues the distribution of 80,000 units of 10kg bags of rice to the vulnerable in Lagos State. Recall that the Lagos flag-off of the nationwide rice […]

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US Imports Over 2m Barrels of Jet Fuel From Dangote Refinery; Experts Hail Refinery, Drum Support

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The growing influence of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals is extending far beyond Africa and the Middle East, as the United States imports over two million barrels of jet fuel from the world’s largest single-train refinery in March. Experts assert that this development should bring immense joy to Nigerians, as it attests to the […]

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IMF Names Tony Elumelu To Advisory Council on Entrepreneurship and Growth

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Founder of Heirs Holdings and Group Chair, Tony O. Elumelu, CFR, has been appointed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to its Advisory Council on Entrepreneurship and Growth, convened by IMF Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva. Elumelu, Africa’s leading advocate of entrepreneurship and whose Foundation has funded, mentored and trained over 25,000 African entrepreneurs since 2015, […]