Diamond Bank Plc is set to sell its West African banking operations to Manzi Finances S.A., a Cote d’Ivoire-based financial services holding company, in order to focus on Nigeria’s significant retail banking opportunity. The bank said on Friday that it had agreed to sell its operations in Benin, Togo, Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal. According to […]
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Med-View Airline says it is expanding its flight operations in the West Coast with the inauguration of services to Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire; Dakar, Senegal and Conakry in Guinea. According to the airline, flight services to the new destinations will be three times a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday with early departures from Lagos, and […]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has disclosed plans to extend the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) from Ghana to Cote d’Ivoire. The move, according to the corporation, is part of the Federal Government’s West Africa energy integration policy aimed at penetrating the region. Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, stated this yesterday […]
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has dismissed a report that he is on exile in Cote d’Ivoire. The report, published yesterday by a national newspaper, claimed that Dr. Jonathan had been given asylum in that Francophone country. His associates were alarmed at the report. But Dr. Jonathan yesterday said it was all false. He told The […]
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[su_dropcap]D[/su_dropcap]angote Cement Plc has announced the commencement of the construction of a new three million metric tonnes per annum capacity cement grinding plant in Cote d’Ivoire. The project is coming just as the company announced the ground-breaking of a new six million metric tonnes per annum Greenfield cement plant in Okpella, Edo State, and commencement […]
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