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- 7 Feb 2015
Philips, Medical Credit Fund & Diamond Bank Offer Clinics Access to Fund
Royal Philips, the Medical Credit Fund, part of the Pharm Access Group and Diamond Bank Plc are launching a partnership to improve access to quality healthcare in Nigeria. Small and medium-sized…
- 20 Sept 2022
Remedial Health Secures $4.4 million in Seed Funding to Provide Access to Credit for Neighbourhood Pharmacies
Remedial Health, a healthtech startup that develops solutions to make Africa’s pharmaceutical value chain more efficient, has raised $4.4 million in seed funding to accelerate its expansion across…
- 29 Jul 2019
Access Bank Dangles Collateral-Free Loan to SMEs, Others
Access Bank has unveiled a fresh audacious plan to fund the small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) as well as health and education sectors after a similar exercise for the players in the creative…
- 26 Jul 2019
Access Bank, GE Healthcare Partner to Provide Financing to Nigeria’s Healthcare Providers
Access Bank and GE Healthcare are to provide sustainable healthcare equipment financing to private healthcare providers; The partnership will help the private healthcare providers to deliver access…
- 23 Dec 2025
AfDB Group Mobilises Global Private Capital to Close Africa’s Financing Gap
Building on the successful conclusion of the 17th replenishment of the African Development Fund (ADF-17), which mobilised $11 billion for Africa’s most vulnerable countries, the African Development…
- 5 Nov 2020
Afreximbank Earmarks $1.5Bn To Boost African Economies
The African Export-Import Bank, Afrximbank has unveiled a $1.5 billion collaborative COVID-19 Pandemic Response Facility (COPREFA) to back African economies with rapid financial assistance to reduce…
- 3 Nov 2022
Benjamin Joseph, Alleged Zinox Blackmailer, Skips Court Appearance
Benjamin Joseph, owner of Citadel Oracle Concepts Limited, an Ibadan-based ICT retail firm, has failed to appear in court to defend a case of malicious falsehood and false petitioning filed against…
- 13 May 2026
Olusi, BOI MD Harps on the Media as Nigeria’s Biggest Development Partner
Dr. Olasupo Olusi, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Bank of Industry, has described the media as Nigeria’s most important development partner, noting that effective communication…
- 25 Sept 2020
CBN Bans Customer-to-Customer Forex Transfer
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has banned transfer of foreign exchange (forex) from one customer to another. According to the apex bank, forex cash lodgements into domiciliary accounts can only be…
- 22 May 2022
Sterling Bank Signs MoU with Optometrists on Funding, Capacity Building
Sterling Bank Plc, Nigeria’s leading commercial bank, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Nigerian Optometrist Association (NOA) to automate operations, enhance capacity and…
- 10 Aug 2026
Subscribers to Seek Legal Redress if Poor Quality of Service Continue in September
Telecommunications subscribers under the umbrella of the National Association of Telecoms Subscribers (NATCOMS), has handed telecommunications operators in the country September deadline to improve…
- 8 Mar 2022
Growth Africa Startups Signs 7 New Entrepreneurs
Business acceleration company, Growth Africa Startups has signed seven new emerging startups to the portfolio of companies under its advisory management. The seven startups according to Mr. Samuel…
- 17 May 2020
COVID-19: Heritage Bank to Disburse CBN’s N100bn Intervention Fund
As part of proactive measures to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 and revamp the nation’s dwindling economy, Heritage Bank is set to disburse the N100billion set aside by the Central Bank of…
- 18 May 2020
Heritage Bank To Disburse CBN’s N100bn Loan, Sell Forex To SMEs, Others
Heritage Bank is set to disburse the N100billion set aside by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), as part of proactive measures to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 and revamp the nation’s dwindling…
- 22 Apr 2020
NIRSAL to Begin Disbursement of CBN’s N50Bn COVID-19 Fund Today
NIRSAL Microfinance Bank said it will today (Thursday) begin the disbursement of the first tranche of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) N50 billion targeted credit facility. Mr. Godwin Emefiele, CBN…
- 17 May 2020
UBA Upgrades Mobile App, Introduces New Features for Customers
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Pan African financial institution, has upgraded its mobile banking application, introducing lots of exciting and interactive features to aid banking, whilst allowing…
- 10 Feb 2025
Customers File Class Action Suits against Access and Zenith Banks
Customers have instituted a class action lawsuit against Access and Zenith Banks, two of the leading banks in the country. In the first case, customers of Access Bank have alleged gross negligence,…
- 27 May 2015
Cost of Data Breaches Increasing to $3.8M – Report
The cost of data breaches is rising for companies around the world as sophisticated thieves target valuable financial and medical records, according to a study released yesterday. The total average…
- 21 Mar 2025
Nigeria, Kenya among Nations Running out of HIV Drugs - WHO
Eight countries - six of them in Africa, including Nigeria, Kenya and Lesotho - could soon run out of HIV drugs following the US government's recent decision to pause foreign aid, the World Health…
- 21 Feb 2017
CBN Directive to Banks: Not Yet Uhuru for Naira- Otunuga
With the Dollar demand for school fee payments overseas and personal travel allowance enforcing downside pressures on the parallel market, the move by the CBN to sell Dollars to retail users via…
- 28 May 2020
Access Bank Begin Loan Disbursement to Nigerian Health Sector
Access Bank Plc s set to release loans through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) credit support scheme to ramp up the capacity of Nigeria’s pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. The loan scheme…
- 19 Jul 2020
Women to Get 60 Per Cent of CBN’s N220Bn MSMEs Fund
Federal government has announced plans to roll out a N2.3 trillion stimulus package and survival fund for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to stay afloat amid the economic challenges…
- 16 Mar 2020
Facebook Steps Up Efforts to Help Nigeria Tackle Misinformation on Coronavirus
As global numbers continue to rise, and with Coronavirus (Covid-19) reported in a number of countries across Africa, including in Nigeria, Facebook continues in its commitment in helping to keep…
- 25 Apr 2017
Yudala Partmers Linda Ikeji to Inspire Thousands at Self Made Woman Conference
Yudala, leading composite e-commerce company, joined forces with Africa’s most popular blogger, Linda Ikeji to empower thousands of female participants at the inaugural edition of Linda Ikeji’s Self…
- 16 Feb 2017
Hudibia: Medical Solutions Taken to The Next Level
Getting access to medical attention on time can be the difference between life and death. Technology is, however, seeing to improvement in this. I recently had a chat with Dr. Njoku Amadi-Obi, the…
- 21 Jun 2026
BoI's EIB-Backed Financing Accelerates Fidson's Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Growth
Fidson Healthcare Plc has commended the Bank of Industry (BoI) for its pivotal role in facilitating concessionary financing that is accelerating the growth of Nigeria's pharmaceutical manufacturing…
- 13 Aug 2021
Bank Chiefs Threaten Arrest, Prosecution of Customers Involved in Fraudulent Forex Purchases
The chief executives of deposit money banks in the country have warned customers against using fraudulent methods to get access to foreign exchange (Forex) from banks, saying those caught…
- 27 Aug 2018
Google Kicks off Launchpad Accelerator Africa Class 2
Google on Monday launched its second Launchpad Accelerator Africa class as part of its ongoing efforts to support entrepreneurship on the continent. It would be recalled that the first Launchpad…