Thirteen African countries have been ranked higher than Nigeria in Forbes Magazine’s Best Country for Business ranking for 2019. Nigeria emerged as the 110th Best Country for Business, below South Africa, ranked 59, Morocco (62), Seychelles (66), Tunisia (82), Botswana (83), Rwanda (90), Kenya (93), Ghana (94), Egypt (95), Namibia (96), Senegal (100), Zambia (103) […]
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African leaders on Monday used a regional forum to underline the need for the continent to assure its own security after years of Western interventions, while also calling for international funding to support the anti-terror fight.. The annual Dakar International Forum on Peace and Security this year brings together the presidents of Mali, Rwanda and […]
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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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Africa Prudential Registrars Plc has been named the Best Registrar Firm in West Africa by Africa-Canada Trade Alliance at the 7th Edition of the West Africa Innovation and Excellence Awards ceremony which held at Abuja recently. According to a letter issued by the organisers, the innovation award celebrates outstanding innovations, brands and personalities in the […]
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Cote D’Ivoire, Senegal and Sao Tome have beaten Nigeria to the fourth position in the World Bank new global trade Logistics Performance Index (LPI) for the year 2016. The World Bank ranking revealed that Cote d’Ivoire led the West African region with an average point of 2.6, closely followed by Senegal and Sao Tome with […]
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Gambia’s defeated leader Yahya Jammeh announced early Saturday he has decided to relinquish power, after hours of last-ditch talks with regional leaders and the threat by a regional military force to make him leave. “I believe it is not necessary that a single drop of blood be shed,” Jammeh said in a brief statement on […]
Read More Nigeria’s foremost financial institution, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, a subsidiary of FBN Holdings Plc has announced that FBNBank Senegal, formerly registered as International Commercial Bank (ICB), has commenced operations. According to a statement by the bank, the unveiling was part of the integration process and agreement reached by FirstBank and International Commercial Bank Financial […]
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