Shobo, former Agusto CEO, gets special recognition at African Banker Awards
Businessam Staff
August 28, 2020
Vivien Shobo, the former Augusto & Co chief executive, came up for special recognition at the 2020 Africa Banker Awards as winner of the magazine’s Icon Award for the year at a virtual ceremony held recently. She joins notable past winners, including Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former finance minister and contender for the director-generalship of the […]
Sanusi, former CBN governor, becomes academic visitor at Oxford University
Businessam StaffAugust 13, 2020
…To write book on bank’s 2009-2013 response to global financial crisis Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the immediate past Emir of Kano, is returning to the world of academia in October at the prestigious Oxford University in the United Kingdom where he is taking up a […]
Encomiums as billionaire BUA Group founder/CEO, Rabiu, turns 60
Chris IkosaAugust 4, 2020
Billionaire founder, chairman and chief executive officer of BUA Group, one of Africa’s leading conglomerate, Abdul Samad Rabiu, turned 60 today and encomiums have been pouring in from different sources, including from President Muhammadu Buhari, who extended his warm greetings to the entrepreneurial businessman. Buhari’s greetings were sent via a statement by Garba Shehu, his […]
Anambra congratulates first black vice chancellor of a British university
Ben EguzozieJuly 17, 2020
…as Gov Obiano honours two JAMB best candidates The government of Anambra State has congratulated Charles Egbu, a professor of Quantity Surveying of Nigerian descent (Anambra State), on his emergence as the first black vice chancellor of a British university. Egbu will on November 1 this year, assume duties as the vice chancellor of Leeds […]
SEPLAT taps top banker, accountant Onwuka, as finance chief, ED
Businessam StaffJuly 11, 2020
Banker was GMD of acquired Diamond Bank in heyday Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc, the dual Nigerian Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange listed Nigerian indigenous oil and gas company, has tapped top Nigerian banker and accountant, Emeka Onwuka, as its chief financial officer and executive director, the company announced at the weekend. Onwuka once […]
Indigent Rivers boy on Total E&P’s CDY wins Cambridge outstanding learner 2020
Ben EguzozieJuly 7, 2020
An educational support initiative, Catch Dem Young (CDY), championed by oil exploration and production company, Total E&P Nigeria, has made global footprints as one of its beneficiaries, Holy Destiny Ike, has emerged winner of the 2020 Cambridge International (Outstanding) Learner’s Award. The CDY initiative was designed by Total E&P Nigeriaf or indigent children from mainly […]
Access Bank celebrates Tracy Batta, W Power loan beneficiary, as Forbes Africa’s 30 under 30
Businessam StaffJuly 1, 2020
Nigeria’s Tier-1 lender, Access Bank, is celebrating Tracy Batta, one of the beneficiaries of its W Power loan product, who has just been named by Forbes Africa in it’s prestigious and much covetted 30 under 30 list for 2020. “Helping female businesses grow through discounted access to finance is one of the many unique value […]
New Chevening Nigeria alumni leadership outlines major agenda
Businessam StaffJune 26, 2020
The new leadership of the Nigerian chapter of the global United Kingdom Chevening scholars body, Chevening Alunmi Association of Nigeria (CAAN), has outlined key areas it would focus on during the two years of its tenure. New president, Kester Osahenye, elected with his team at a virtual extra-ordinary general meeting (EGM) about two weeks ago, […]
Netflix inks multi-title deal with Nigerian producer Mo Abudu
Businessam StaffJune 12, 2020
Adaptations of Lola Shoneyin’s novel ‘The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives’ and Wole Soyinka’s play ‘Death and the King’s Horseman’ are among the multi-title parternship. Netflix is reaffirming its commitment to original African content, signing a multi-title deal with prolific Nigerian producer Mo Abudu. Through the partnership, Abudu — via her production company EbonyLife […]
Elusakin, chairman GRS Insurance, gets virtual accolades @ 60, from ex-IGI colleagues
Businessam StaffMay 29, 2020
Olusina Elusakin, the chairman of GRS Insurance Brokers and a former deputy managing director of then wave making Industrial and General Insurance Company Limited (IGI), got a surprise virtual world-wide gathering of his former IGI colleagues to celebrate his 60th birthday recently, a fallout of the global Covid-19 pandemic that has made physical get-together a […]