BoI is getting very creative in raising money to ensure it lends at 10%

Businessam StaffMarch 1, 2018

Olukayode Pitan, President, bank of Industry

At 7 p.m. on May 27, 2017, following an announcement by the Presidency, Olukayode Pitan, effectively became the managing director and chief executive of Bank of Industry (BoI), the Nigerian development finance institution, which has a mandate to promote industrial development in the country through the provision of finance to businesses, small, medium and large […]

Tim Cook reveals reasons Apple is world’s most innovative company

Goddey OdinFebruary 21, 2018

The only things more impressive than Apple’s financial numbers are the products that generated them. For a company routinely slagged for not having had a hit since 2010’s iPad, Apple, which as of mid-January was valued at more than $900 billion, had a heckuva 2017: Its wireless AirPods became ubiquitous from Brooklyn to Boise, and […]

I vote for low interest rate, double digit growth- Chike-Obi

Businessam StaffFebruary 15, 2018

Mustapha-Chike-Obi

Mustafa Chike-Obi is an interesting subject for any serious financial journalist to interview. As an international investment banker with a Goldman Sachs’ pedigree, the pioneer Managing Director/CEO of Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), now Executive Vice Chairman, Alpha African Advisory, tapped by the Federal Government in the heady days of Nigeria’s own peculiar financial […]

Agriculture business can transform rural economies-AfDB president

Businessam StaffFebruary 13, 2018

Akinwumi Adesina, head, African Development Bank( AfDB)

Akinwumi Adesina is that President of the African Development Bank (AfDB). His philosophy is not only that Africa has a true comparative advantage in this field but that agriculture should be viewed as a business opportunity as opposed to development. The agricultural sector, he points out, has made more billionaires than most industries. African Business caught up with him […]

We should create more indigenous oil, gas companies for jobs, economic expansion – Bank-Anthony

Andy NssienFebruary 5, 2018

Bank-Anthony Okoroafor,

Bank-Anthony Okoroafor, the chief executive officer of Vherbarge International Limited and President of Petroleum and Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN),in this interview with Andy Nssen and Ajose Sehindemi bares his mind on a  number of burning issues including how genuine change from Nigeria’s government can solve the agitations in the restive Niger Delta and how […]

India jumps 42 places in ease of doing business after we came to power- PM

Businessam StaffJanuary 24, 2018

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks in an interview

Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke exclusively to Times Now’s Editor-in-Chief Rahul Shivshankar and Managing Editor (Politics) Navika Kumar and touched upon issues like Demonetisation and the GST, unemployment and inflation, simultaneous polls in states and at the Centre, and his efforts to make the life of the common man easy. Highlights of the interview – I am […]

JPMorgan Chase’s Dimon regrets calling bitcoin a ‘fraud’

Businessam StaffJanuary 10, 2018

Jamie Dimon is having second thoughts about wading into the bitcoin controversy. The JPMorgan Chase & Co. chief executive officer, who earlier called the cryptocurrency a “fraud,” said Tuesday he wishes he hadn’t dismissed the technology in such broad terms. “I regret making” those comments, Dimon said in an interview with the Fox Business network. […]

Nigeria’s Akwa Ibom pursuing private sector driven industrialisation agenda — Udoh

Businessam StaffJanuary 10, 2018

Commissioner of Information, Akwa Ibom State, Charles Udoh, in this interview with Financial Vanguard disclosed the state government’s drive to industrialise the state and efforts to build infrastructure to attract foreign investors in different sectors of the economy. He disclosed that opportunity exists to build gas fired thermal power, other factories, among other viable projects […]