Ecobank Nigeria Promotes Entrepreneurship; Extends Agric Loan to 70,000 Farmers

Ecobank Nigeria Promotes Entrepreneurship; Extends Agric Loan to 70,000 Farmers

Ecobank Ecobank Nigeria has restated its commitment to the Agricultural sector and is supporting over 70,000 farmers with special loans to increase their capacity and yields during this planting season. This is one of the bank’s initiatives to promote entrepreneurship in the sector and is in support of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Anchor Borrowers […]

Ecobank Group Named Africa's Best Bank for Corporate Responsibility by Euromoney

Ecobank Group Named Africa’s Best Bank for Corporate Responsibility by Euromoney

Proshare Nigeria Pvt. Ltd. The leading pan-African banking group, Ecobank, has won the coveted prize of Africa’s Best Bank for Corporate Responsibility in the Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2020. Euromoney recognises Ecobank’s focus on sustainability and partnerships and its core capabilities in delivering positive social and environmental outcomes across Africa. Carl Manlan, Chief Operating Officer […]

Ecobank named Africa’s Best Bank for Corporate Responsibility

Ecobank named Africa’s Best Bank for Corporate Responsibility

In a statement last week, the Lome (Togo) based bank said Euromoney recognises its focus on sustainability and partnerships and its core capabilities in delivering positive social and environmental outcomes across Africa. “At Ecobank we leverage human capabilities and other core resources to partner for African transformation. We are passionate about co-designing partnerships to drive […]

Nigeria is not our biggest market, it’s our biggest opportunity – Ecobank

Nigeria is not our biggest market, it’s our biggest opportunity – Ecobank

The Group CEO of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), Ade Adeyemi, said Nigeria is not only the pan-African bank’s biggest market. Instead, “Nigeria is our biggest opportunity,” he told business journalists during a virtual press conference that was held, yesterday, to introduce the company’s new Chairman, Alain Nkontchou. Adeyemi’s clarification was in response to a particularly […]

Aggrieved Ecobank outsourced staff commend NUBIFIE for wading into workers plight

Ighomuaye Lucky, Benin Aggrieved Ecobank Outsourced Staff, Benin, yesterday, commended the National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions, (NUBIFIE), for wading into the issues of alleged salary arrears and welfare of staff by their employers. The leader of the aggrieved Outsourced staff, Paulic Jesuorode Okonikhere, in a press statement signed and made available to […]

ETI Ecobank Transnational : Ecobank Reports Profit Before Tax of $170 million and a return on tangible equity of 15.2% for the first half of 2020

ETI Ecobank Transnational : Ecobank Reports Profit Before Tax of $170 million and a return on tangible equity of 15.2% for the first half of 2020

Ecobank Reports Profit Before Tax of $170 million Diluted EPS of $0.0036 and Tangible Book Value Per Share (TBVPS)1 of $0.048 Ade Ayeyemi, Group CEO said: "I am pleased with our diversified business model and the investments that we have made in people, systems, and processes. These have enabled us to serve our customers and […]

Bawumia commissions 100-bed infectious disease centre sponsored by Ghana Covid-19 Private Sector Fund

Bawumia commissions 100-bed infectious disease centre sponsored by Ghana Covid-19 Private Sector Fund

The vice president has hailed the remarkable display of patriotism by Ghanaians in partnering with the government to realise the dream of building the nation’s first Infectious Diseases Centre Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia commissioned the 100-bed hospital in Accra, which was built to cater for infectious disease, following the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic earlier this […]

Oil exposure raises questions for West Africa's big banks in age of coronavirus

Oil exposure raises questions for West Africa’s big banks in age of coronavirus

West Africa’s major banks could suffer a spike in loan defaults as lower oil prices and the acute economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic hits the region, analysts said. In Nigeria, Africa’s biggest oil producer and fourth-largest banking sector by assets, lenders are heavily exposed to the energy sector. Lending to oil and gas companies […]