Lagos – The Managing Director, Ecobank Nigeria, Mr Patrick Akinwuntan, says the bank is set to support the Nigerian movie industry to project everything good about Nigeria. Patrick Akinwuntan, Managing Director, Ecobank Nigeria Akinwuntan was quoted by a statement on Monday to have said this at the premiere of the movie ‘The Bling Lagosians’ in […]
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Former Head of Ecobank EDC Stock Brokers dies
File-photo: Alhassan Mahama Iddrisu Investment Banker and Former Head of Ecobank Development Corporation (EDC) Alhassan Mahama Iddrisu has died. The Investment Banker died over the weekend after a short illness. Mahama Iddrissu is said to have played a significant role in investment banking and capital development in the country. He also worked on a lot […]
Corporate organizations urged to support dentistry, oral health as part of CSR
Corporate organizations have been urged to extend their support to the dentistry and oral health sub-sector as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). According to Lecturer at the KNUST School of Medicine and Dentistry, Dr Mrs Ama Amoasi, this could go a long way to improve their market share as the health sector presents […]
Barclays seeks to sell three closed branches at Sh65m
Barclays CEO Jeremy Awori. FILE PHOTO | NMG Barclays Bank of Kenya’s three closed branches are up for sale with the lender putting their value at Sh65 million. Information contained in the annual report for the period ended December 2018 shows that the closed branches — Bamburi, Maragua and Supplies — are now up for […]
GH¢95m transferred across different networks in Q1
Just a year after its launch, Mobile Money Interoperability—a system that makes mobile money transactions among different networks possible—has hit GH¢95.88million in value for the first quarter of 2019, the Payment Systems Statistics report published by the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GHIPSS) has revealed. The report, published by the Ghana Interbank Payment and […]
Banks’ profit up 38.9%
Bank of Ghana The 24 banks, currently operating in the country, registered an after-tax profit of GH¢1.1 billion, representing a year-on-year growth of 38.9 percent compared with 5.8 percent growth for the same period last year. The profit margin is a remarkable growth, after the clean-up of the banking industry. Majority of the profits were […]
Former Head of EDC Alhassan Mahama Iddrisu dead
Investment Banker and Former Head of Ecobank Development Corporation Alhassan Mahama Iddrisu is dead. The Investment Banker died over the weekend after a short illness. Mahama Iddrissu and capital market development in the country Mahama Iddrissu is said to have played a significant role in investment banking and capital development in the country. He also […]
CFA Institute To Partner Ecobank on Training, Research
The Chief Executive and President Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute, Paul Smith has called for a closer collaboration with Ecobank Nigeria along areas of mutual interest in the nation’s financial industry. Smith who was speaking during a courtesy visit to Management of Ecobank Nigeria in Lagos on Friday, said its call is predicated on the […]
Corporate infractions: SEC to partner with FIRS, NSE, others
Securities and Exchange Commission plans to share findings from the forensic audit of Oando Plc with other regulatory agencies, IFEANYI ONUBA reports Following the regulatory intervention of the Securities and Exchange Commission in the affairs of Oando Plc over alleged sundry abuses; the commission plans to refer the alleged abuses to other regulatory bodies. The […]
Auditor General Report: University of Ghana has multiple bank accounts; some have less than GhC100
Auditor General, Daniel Yao Domelevo The Auditor General has revealed that Ghana’s premier university, the University of Ghana (UG) is operating multiple bank accounts with some either being inactive or having less than GHC100 as the credit balance. According to the Auditor General’s 2018 special audit report, the has led to poor management of the […]