Zenith Bank Plc has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat for the development of the SMARTAfCFTA Portal, for trade promotion within the African continent. The SMARTAfCFTA Portal, which has the capacity to provide information like trade indicators, market trends, custom tariffs, trade agreements, rules of origin,…
The President of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, told the audience at the 2023 BusinessDay Forum, “For now, Nigeria is developing too slowly and well below its potential.” He suggested that, “The prosperous future (that Nigeria yearns for) can only be assured by strongly supporting the private sector to unlock wealth that will…
If it was President Bola Tinubu who asked Senate President Godswill Akpabio to test the waters by telling the Ekiti State Governor, Abiodun Oyebanji, and the Ekiti State caucus of the National Assembly that the Federal Government would be carrying out an upward review of salaries, that suggests he may have misdiagnosed Nigeria’s economic problem….
President Bola Tinubu’s N8000 freebie (for six months), to the 12 million so-called vulnerable Nigerian families is a regrettable and “underwhelming” reversal of gains. And it is difficult to understand why he chose that path. Not only connoisseurs of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s Afrobeat music will understand that the expression, “Overtake Don Overtake Overtake,” somewhat akin to…
Today, academic institutions and professional bodies, led by the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun State, are hosting “A day of Tribute” for Prof Lai Oso, a classmate in the Department of Mass Communication of the University of Lagos. The death of Prof Oso, who died in a car crash on the Benin-Sagamu Expressway, has ruptured…
For a third year running, Zenith Bank Plc has been named the Best Commercial Bank in Nigeria at the World Finance Banking Awards 2023. The bank also emerged as the Best Corporate Governance Bank, Nigeria, in the World Finance Corporate Governance Awards 2023, retaining the award for a second consecutive year. These awards were presented…
They say President Bola Tinubu is already compiling the list of his ministers in compliance with constitutional requirements that he must forward their names to the Senate within 60 days of his swearing-in. Section 147(3) of the constitution requires him to appoint at least one minister who is an indigene of each state. After the…
Zenith Bank Plc has retained its ranking as the Number One Bank in Nigeria by Tier-1 Capital in the 2023 Top 1000 World Banks’ Rankings, published by The Banker Magazine. For the fourteenth year in a row, the Bank has held its position as the number one Tier-1 bank in Nigeria, emerging as the 467th…
The Chief Financial Officer of Zenith Bank Plc, Dr. Mukhtar Adam, has been named ‘Chief Financial Officer of the Year’ at the 11th All Africa Business Leaders Awards (AABLA) in partnership with CNBC Africa. The award ceremony took place at the King’s Ballroom, Sun City, South Africa, on June 23, 2023. This honour places Dr….
Not a few businessmen and corporate organisations are scared stiff that the Bola Tinubu administration may replicate the stringent regulatory regime of Lagos State at the federal level. A friend expressed that fear in no uncertain terms. According to the report of The Policy Advisory Council set up by Tinubu after he was elected President…