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- 15 May 2019
Airtel Wins Award for Contributions to Nigeria Economy
Businessday, Nigeria’s business and economic newspaper in collaboration with the Nigerian Stock Exchange(NSE) has honoured Airtel Nigeria for its contributions to the economy and for creating…
- 11 Feb 2014
Etisalat Sponsors BusinessDay Competitive Strategy Master Class
Etisalat Nigeria is set sponsor the BusinessDay Competitive Strategy Master Class 2014, which comes up on February 19, 2014, at InterContinental Lagos, Victoria Island, Lagos. The program, themed…
- 25 Jan 2018
9mobile to File for Bankruptcy- Report
Troubled telecommunications firm 9mobile may be forced to file bankruptcy, a report in Nigeria’s authoritative BusinessDAY said on Thursday morning. Nigeria CommunicationsWeek cannot…
- 20 May 2017
Spectranet Bags Double Awards
Spectranet 4GLTE, premier internet service provider, has been recognised with two awards by BusinessDay and Nigeria CommunicationsWeek for its innovative drive in the Broadband and Internet Service…
- 5 Jan 2020
How MTN Continues To Create Value
On December 3, 2019, the 10th edition of the BusinessDay CEO Forum Nigeria was held at the Lagos Continental Hotel, Victoria Island, with the theme ‘Nigeria at Crossroads: The Private Sector…
- 24 Jan 2023
Union Bank Reiterates Support for Small Businesses at BusinessDay Top 100 SME Conference
Union Bank, Nigeria's leading financial institution, has reiterated their support for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the country to drive increased growth and development. This commitment was…
- 11 Jul 2025
NITDA DG: AI Is an Ally for Innovation, Not an Enemy
Kashifu Inuwa, director general of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has called on business leaders to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) as a collaborative partner in…
- 17 Oct 2017
UBA Emerges Best Bank in Support of Real Sector at Banking Awards
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Pan-African banking group, at the weekend was recognised for its extraordinary support of the real sector as it won best bank in the category, ahead of its peers.…
- 31 Jan 2022
Toriola, Wigwe, Olusanya to Join Uzoma Dozie on Sparkle Webinar for SMEs
In a show of support for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria, Olutokun Toriola, CEO, MTN Nigeria, will join industry leaders to discuss ways of creating a supportive environment for…
- 18 May 2022
Access Bank emerges Best Performing Stock, Awosika Best Chairman of the Year
Access Bank has emerged the best performing stock in 2021 by the Nigeria Exchange Limited (NGX). The Bank earned this recognition at the 2022 Nigerian Investor Value Awards (NIVA) organised by…
- 3 May 2017
Sidmach Recognised Among ‘Most Innovative in Education
Sidmach who recently scoops two awards at the just concluded Beacon of information communication technology (BoICT) awards as the Technology Innovation Hub of the Year and Indigenous Software Company…
- 6 Jul 2018
MTN Nigeria Begins IPO in August
MTN Nigeria’s Initial Public Offering (IPO) has been set for August as part of MTN’s plans to restructure debts and fund local investments in Nigeria with its local currency, according to…
- 27 Nov 2014
Visafone Wins CDMA Operator Award
Visafone Communications Limited has won the CDMA Operator of the Year award at the just concluded AfriICTA 2014 awards ceremony. Mkpe Abang , chairman of AfriICTA, who presented the award said…
- 13 Sept 2016
UBA Wins Big at Businessday Banking Awards
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Pan-African banking group, at the weekend carted home two very important laurels at the annual Businessday Banking Awards, winning the Best Bank in Sub-Saharan…
- 29 Jul 2015
MainOne Says Broadband Penetration will Drive Nigeria’s GDP Growth
MainOne, West Africa’s leading Broadband Communications provider, has tipped increased broadband penetration as would drive the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth on the long run.…
- 11 Nov 2022
DLM Capital Group, Sofri Win Big in BAFI 2022
Investment Bank in Nigeria, DLM Capital and its subsidiary – Sofri (Sofri, powered by Links Microfinance bank) have bagged award of recognition and excellence at the just concluded BusinessDay Banks’…
- 12 Dec 2023
Union Bank Pledges Improved Access to Capital for Small Businesses @BusinessDay 100 SME Conference
Foremost financial institution, Union Bank of Nigeria, has reiterated its commitment to providing easy access to capital for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the country to boost the growth and…
- 28 Jan 2021
Ecobank Nigeria Earmarks N50Bn To Boost MSME’s
Patrick Akinwuntan, the managing director, Ecobank Nigeria, has said the bank’s newly sourced N50 billion credit will be deployed to support Micro, Small and medium scale enterprises (MSMEs) and…
- 1 Jan 2015
Konga KExpress Boasts of Over 200 Vehicles in Less Than 5 Months
Nigerian Ecommerce Company, Konga.com, disclosed that it closed the 2014 year with remarkable successes across its top business metrics for the year in view, particularly the KExpress fleet increased…
- 6 Sept 2020
Ferdi Moolman, MTN CEO Wins Businessday’s Top CEO and Next Bulls Awards
Ferdi Moolman, the chief executive officer of MTN Nigeria has been named a Top CEO at the sixth edition of Businessday’s annual Top CEOs and Next Bulls awards. This year’s event, organized in…
- 30 Mar 2017
Can Technology and Connectivity Disrupt Insurance?
On my way to the Pinet eInsurance conference hosted in Lagos last week, I asked myself a question. What does insurance have to do with telecom or technology for that matter? Plenty I concluded!…
- 27 Mar 2018
Milost Ends Unity Bank $1Bn Deal over Threats from Politician
Milost Global Inc., a private-equity firm has ended talks to provide $1 billion to Unity Bank Plc, saying it received threats that it will be run out of Nigeria if the deal continues. The New…
- 15 Jul 2024
FCMB Unit CEO Calls for Innovation and Resilience Amid Economic Challenges
At the BusinessDay CEO Forum, Chukwuma Nwanze, MD/CEO of Credit Direct Finance Company Limited (Credit Direct), FCMB Group's consumer finance arm, emphasized the critical role of innovation and…
- 26 Jul 2024
60 Hearty Cheers to Dr. Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, GMD/CEO, Fidelity Bank
Tomorrow is your birthday Madam, kindly permit me to be the first to strike a positive chord and shine a spotlight on you, an exceptional woman, who is helping shape modern finance in Nigeria and…
- 12 Dec 2021
MTN Moves to up 50% Market Penetration with 575m Shares at N169 Per Share
As part of the move to increase Nigerian market penetration which currently stands at 50% market share and 89% population coverage, respectively, the nation's leading telecommunication company, MTN…
- 9 Aug 2019
Inlaks Wins IT Company of the Year @ the Nigerian Business Leadership Awards
Inlaks, the leading systems integrator in Sub-Saharan Africa emerged winner as the Information Technology Company of the Year at the Nigerian Business Leadership Awards organized by BusinessDay…
- 18 May 2022
Wema Bank Emerged ‘Best Overall Investor Relations’ Brand at NIVA Awards
Wema Bank Plc has again been recognized for its commitment to the highest standards of disclosure, transparency, and fairness in disseminating information to investors and other stakeholders. The…
- 25 Oct 2017
BVN: Banks May Beg Court to Stop FG
Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) operating in Nigeria may have to run to court to challenge an order granted by a court in Abuja to the Federal Government to takeover all funds in accounts without Bank…
- 18 Apr 2023
Polaris Bank, Network International Strengthen Partnership to Deepen Financial Inclusion, Digital Transformation
Network International, enabler of digital commerce across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, has renewed its partnership with one of Nigeria’s financial services provider, Polaris Bank, to…
- 5 Jun 2017
ATCON Says Increased Broadband Helps Banking Grow Customers by 23%
One of the sectors that Broadband has impacted is the banking sector as the sector can now boast of 23% bank account penetration, said Olusola Teniola, president, Association of Telecommunication…