Ecobank has launched the Ecobank Mobile App, an instant and convenient way of banking via the mobile phone. It is the first unified app delivered by any institution for use in 33 countries. Group CEO, Ade Ayeyemi unveiled the new App at a large product launch in Lagos, which brought […]
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Book Haram releases 21 kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls
Islamist Boko Haram today released 21 out of the more than 200 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped in April 2014 to Nigerian government. Sahara Reporters reported that a government source disclosed the information. The sources disclosed that the girls were picked up by military helicopter from Banki area of Borno state where […]
Interview: Mohammed Kari
Kari What can be done to increase the level of awareness of insurance products in Nigeria? MOHAMMED KARI: The level of insurance awareness in the country has improved considerably over the years. What has been missing is a commensurate improvement in penetration, which has been challenged by socio-economic, religious and […]
‘Pension Contributors now enjoy good returns on investment’
Having won two awards at the just concluded World Pension Summit-African Special, the Managing Director, Premium Pension Limited (PPL), Wilson Ideva, in this interview with Chuks Udo Okonta, spoke on this feat and where the pension industry will be in the next five years. Ideva Double awards like these come […]
Making “Change-Begins- with Me” Campaign Work
Adaramola For two years running, the Ogun State Chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations had chosen to be futuristic in the choice of its annual colloquium by focusing on what it perceived as the major source of the intractable socio economic malaise plaguing Nigeria. The professional body recognized […]
My vision is to create new insurance markets – Opadokun
Opadokun Determined to take insurance practice in the country to lofty heights, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, FBN General Insurance Limited, Olabode Opadokun, in this interview with Chuks Udo Okonta, said he would leverage the enormous economic opportunities to widen insurance space. Now that a new MD has come on […]
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Brexit: Ecobank Group Research reveals Africa’s five hot spots for investment
With the United Kingdom having voted in its recent referendum to leave the European Union, many businesses with existing or planned investments in the UK will be looking to new investment frontiers. Africa’s move to diversify its economies and its rising consuming class are creating an array of new investment […]
G20 Nations Jeopardize Energy Transition
Allianz SE Group Communications & Corporate Responsibility Media Release • Growing gap between investments and needs • South Africa has the highest investment needs • G20 putting climate goals and competitiveness at risk • Germany, UK, France and China the most attractive for investors The G20 nations are at risk […]
‘Green fields’ of insurance growth
By Mark Anderson Africa’s insurance markets are expanding more slowly than other emerging regions’, but major groups are looking to enter new markets, which could speed things along. African insurers are still waiting for rising incomes to transform their bottom lines. The growth of insurance premiums in sub-Saharan Africa slowed […]
