The Chief Executive Officer of The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Mr. Oscar N. Onyema, OON was on Tuesday 19, 2017, inducted as an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS) of Nigeria at the induction ceremony held at the Stock Exchange House, Lagos. With this, Mr. Onyema has become the first CEO of […]
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The Nigerian Stock Exchange is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2017 edition of its prestigious NSE CEO Awards. The winners were unveiled at the awards ceremony on Wednesday, December 13, 2017, at the Stock Exchange House, Lagos. Dangote Cement Plc was named the Most Compliant Listed Company for 2017, having demonstrated the highest […]
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Indigenous brewer, Nigerian Breweries Plc, has announced the appointment of Mr. Jordi Borrut Bel as the company’s managing director/chief executive officer. The appointment takes effect on January 22, 2018, according to a company statement. Borrut Bel will succeed Mr. Johan Doyer, who has served as MD/CEO on an interim basis since June 16, 2017. The […]
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Interswitch, the leading Africa-focused integrated digital payments and commerce company, has announced the appointment of Mr. Kenneth Olisa OBE, as its new Chairman, succeeding Adedotun Sulaiman. This appointment follows the recent minority investment by TA Associates in Interswitch in March of this year, a landmark transaction being TA’s first ever investment in the African continent. […]
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By delivering solid financial results that beat Wall Street’s expectations for both revenues and profits on Thursday, Apple Inc’s CEO Tim Cook put to rest concerns that the company’s flagship device, the iPhone X, wouldn’t be ready in time for the holiday shopping season. But beneath the headline revenue and profit figures, Cook also seemed […]
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The chief executive of Uber Technologies Inc, Dara Khosrowshahi, said on Tuesday that his company’s future in Brazil depends on government decisions, as the Brazilian Senate prepared to vote on regulating car hailing apps. “It depends on the decisions of the government,” Khosrowshahi told reporters when asked whether Uber would leave Brazil if the bill […]
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The Nigerian Agip Oil Company, a subsidiary of Italian oil major, Eni, said it had begun feasibility studies for the construction of a new 150,000 barrels-of-oil-per-day refinery in the Niger Delta. The Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, NAOC, Mr. Massimo Insulla, disclosed this on Tuesday in Yenagoa during a two-day succession planning workshop for NAOC’s small […]
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The two Chief Executives of Dutch companies have urged the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to urgently inject the funds recovered from corrupt former government officials into the local economy, saying it is the only way to boost the economy. They also decried the country’s foreign exchange policy, lamenting that it is making it almost impossible […]
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Shareholders of Oando Plc from across the South-West states has called for the resignation of its Chief Executive Officer on Tuesday in staged a protest in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. This is as a result of the firm’s poor financial position. Making reference to the report of the last Annual General Meeting of the […]
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Fidelity Bank Plc, is set to celebrate the first anniversary of its highly regarded Export Management Programme (EMP). Launched in 2016, the EMP is a sector focused capacity building programme run by the Bank in partnership with the Pan-Atlantic University and the Nigerian Export Promotions Council (NEPC), to deliver impactful, world-class export management education to […]
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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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