Emzor Pharmaceutical Industries, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mrs. Stella Okoli, is to be honoured at the inaugural Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) Awards on October 5, at the third AWIEF Conference and Exhibition at the Century City Conference Centre in Cape Town. Others to be honoured include Abisola Ijalana, M12 Photography, Temie Giwa–Tubosun, […]
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Sim Tshabalala has become the first black person to lead Africa’s largest bank by assets without sharing power, after his co-CEO stood down, South Africa’s Standard Bank said on Tuesday. Tshabalala, a 49-year old company veteran who describes himself as “a Zulu boy from Soweto”, joins only a handful of black executives at the helm […]
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Oando Plc 40th Annual General Meeting (AGM) held yesterday at the Ibom Hall in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. The event in which shareholders of the company vote unanimously, expresses confidence in the management team, led by its Group Chief Executive Officer, Wale Tinubu, and retaining the company’s Board of Directors. The Chairman of the Board, […]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is planning to allocate 80 per cent of its crude Oil lifting deal to NNPC Trading, an arm of the corporation which evolved from the merger of its trading companies. Managing Director of NNPC Trading Limited, Ibrahim Waya, revealed this in an interview published in the corporation’s quarterly magazine. […]
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UBER Technologies Inc chose Dara Khosrowshahi, the chief executive of travel company Expedia Inc, as its chief executive on Sunday, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter, handing him the challenge of leading the ride-services company out of a nearly year-long crisis. Khosrowshahi, 48, would take on the daunting task of mending Uber’s […]
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Governing Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) has appointed Mr. John Evbodaghe as Registrar/Chief Executive officer while Dr. Ben Ukaegbu and Mukaila Lawal were appointed Deputy Registrars. Evbodaghe, a fellow of the institute is a consummate professional whose experience cuts across various sectors of the Nigerian economy and also a versatile […]
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The Nigeria’s first 4G/LTE-Advanced network yesterday following the resignation of pioneer Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Kamar Abass. A statement signed by Director, External Affairs, the company, Mr. Osondu Nwokoro, said, “Mr. Abass has stepped down from his role as CEO due to urgent personal and medical considerations. The NatCom board has named Abhulime Ehiagwina […]
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The Sultan of Sokoto, Sultan Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, commended the Tony Elumelu Foundation and its Founder, Tony O. Elumelu for their contribution to entrepreneurship and creation of jobs for young people in the North. The Sultan made this commendation during a courtesy visit paid by Tony Elumelu, Chairman of UBA Group and Founder of […]
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Google aims to train 10 million people in Africa in online skills over the next five years in an effort to make them more employable, its chief executive said on Thursday. The U.S. technology giant also hopes to train 100,000 software developers in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, a company spokeswoman said. Google’s pledge marked […]
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Nestle and other big brands have to go “an extra mile” to win consumers’ trust, as the world’s largest packaged foods maker battles the small, local upstarts that are currently winning in the marketplace, its new CEO said on Thursday. Mark Schneider, who took charge of the maker of KitKat chocolate and Nescafe coffee in […]
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