Brand & Business

Polaris Bank Flaunts New Corporate Website For Unique Features

Have you visited Polaris Bank corporate website, www.polarisbanklimited.com lately? If not, do not hesitate to check it out. You would be pleasantly surprised by the refreshing changes the Bank’s website has undergone, ostensibly to serve millions of her customers within and outside Nigeria. Below are the four unique features of the redesigned Polaris Bank corporate website you would see when you visit and navigate through… []

More Winners To Emerge In The Ongoing Polaris Save & Win Promo

The second draw of the on-going Polaris Bank Save & Win promo is scheduled to hold on Thursday December 8, 2022. The draw which will be conducted electronically, will hold at the Bank’s Victoria Island, Lagos headquarters, and will be broadcast live on the Bank’s social media channels where winners that emerged will be contacted and rewarded instantly. The first draw that was held on… []

Sterling Named Best Employer For The Fifth Time In A Row

Nigeria’s leading commercial bank, Sterling Bank PLC, has set a new milestone by winning the Overall Best Place to Work title for the fifth consecutive year at the annual Great Place to Work awards held in Lagos recently. The award recognises the best Nigerian firms to work for, with Sterling receiving first place in the Large Corporates category. ahead of multinationals such as DHL and… []

UBA Chairman, Tony Elumelu Bags ECOWAS Prize Of Excellence

-Tony Elumelu with his award plaques The Chairman of the United Bank for Africa, UBA, Tony Elumelu CFR, was yesterday, recognized for his contributions to the promotion of regional integration, peace and socio-economic development across Africa, through the Tony Elumelu Foundation. According the post on the Social Media platform of the platform, Tony Elumelu was awarded the ECOWAS Prize of Excellence, an award for deserving… []

ZENITH BANK EMERGES “BANK OF THE YEAR, NIGERIA” IN THE BANKER AWARDS 2022

  Zenith Bank Plc has emerged as Bank of the Year in Nigeria in The Banker’s Bank of the Year Awards 2022. The award, which was announced by The Banker Magazine, Financial Times Group, United Kingdom, during the awards ceremony held in London on December 1, 2022, was in recognition of Zenith Bank’s strong management, sound business model and strategy, support for small businesses and… []

(Photos) Wema Bank Declared Winner At Pearl Award Nigeria

L to R: Chairman, Lasaco Assurance Plc & Former Board Member, PEARL Awards Nigeria., Chief(Mrs) Teju Philips; Deputy Managing Director, Wema Bank, Moruf Oseni; Chief Financial Officer, Wema Bank, Tunde Mabawonku; Reputation Management Officer, Wema Bank, Olumide Yomi-Omolayo; CEO, NASD OTC Securities Exchange Limited, Mr. Longe Eguarekhide, presenting the Pearl Award to Wema Bank as the winner of the 2022 Highest Dividend Yield at Eko… []

Union Bank Unveils Brand New Sonic Identity – The Sound of Union

Union Bank of Nigeria has launched a brand-new sonic identity tagged ‘The Sound of Union. At 105 years, the Bank is now leveraging the universality of music to engage with new and existing audiences through this unique sound identity. The Bank tapped prolific and award-winning music producer Tee-Y Mix, to create a timeless sound and interpret it across multiple genres for today’s and tomorrow’s generations…. []

Polaris Bank Promotes SMEs, Sponsors The Fashion Souk

  Polaris Bank has reaffirmed its commitment to support the growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria. The Bank in a statement gave this assurance while disclosing plans to sponsor The Fashion Souk 7.0. The statement further noted that 3 successful entrepreneurs who emerge winners in a business pitch at the event will go home with N1million, N500,000 and N250,000 for the overall… []

International Day Of Tolerance: ASR Africa, 234Express Kicks Off ‘Reading Against Intolerance’ Project

The Abdul Samad Rabiu Africa Initiative (ASR Africa), the brain-child of Abdul Samad Rabiu, founder and Chairman, BUA Group, in partnership with an Abuja-based publishing firm, +234Express, has kicked off a social cohesion initiative titled Reading Against Intolerance (RAI) to curb all forms of violence and divisive ethnoreligious rhetoric in Nigeria. This is in commemoration of the United Nations International Day of Tolerance which is… []

Unity Bank, Kitian Training Hub Partner to Empower Over 300 Youths with Digital Skills

In a bid to promote SDG 8 for decent work and economic growth, Nigerian lender, Unity Bank Plc is collaborating with Kitian Training Hub, an Ibadan-based career l and l acquisition training centre to empower no fewer than 300 youths from Oyo State with different knowledge and skills designed to better equip beneficiaries to make career advancement. With the intervention, the Bank is providing support… []

Wema Bank To Support SMEs In Port Harcourt With SME Business School 4.0

Wema Bank Plc, the pioneer of Africa’s first fully digital bank, ALAT, has once again demonstrated its unwavering commitment towards developing the capacity of SMEs in Nigeria to scale by launching the fourth edition of its SME Business School in Port Harcourt. Designed to help build capacity for SMEs in the country, Wema Bank’s SME Business School was launched in Lagos in 2021. The second… []

Google Introduces Interview Warmup: To Help Job Seekers Prepare For Interviews

Google has gone live with the launch of Interview Warmup, a tool that enables job seekers to practise answering interview questions to become more confident and comfortable with job interviews. The tool, initially announced in October, 2022 at the second Google for Africa Event, was designed to help Google Career Certificates learners prepare for job interviews, but it is available for everyone to use. An… []

ALAT By Wema wins Overall Best Mobile App in Nigerian Fintech Awards

ALAT By Wema, the first fully digitalized bank in Nigeria, has been named the Overall Best Mobile App in the Nigerian FinTech Awards 2022, beating the other FinTech apps nominated alongside it in the category in the platform’s shortlist. The announcement was made at the award ceremony in Lagos, on Friday 4 November 2022. In its 10th year, the Nigerian Fintech Awards was founded by… []

Prudential Africa Leads Industry With Highest Number Of Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) Qualifier

Prudential Africa has announced that 222 of its sales representatives across seven of its markets in Africa have qualified for the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) in the first half of 2022. This is in comparison to 39 qualifiers from the same period last year, up 469 percent. This makes Prudential the company with the highest number of MDRT members in Africa, with the largest… []

ASR Africa Begins Construction Of ICT Hub, Student Affairs Building In UNIBEN

The Abdul Samad Rabiu Africa Initiative (ASR Africa) – the brainchild of Abdul Samad Rabiu, Founder and Chairman of BUA Group has performed the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of an Information & Communication Technology (ICT) building, and a Student Affairs Building at the University of Benin in Edo State in fulfillment of the N1billion tertiary infrastructure grant awarded to UNIBEN in July 2021 as… []

Sterling Bank dominates CIBN awardees list 

Sterling Bank Plc, recently named “The Overall Best Place To Work (Large Corporates)” in Nigeria by the Great Place to Work (GPTW) Institute for 2020 and 2021, has emerged the most awarded financial institution on the awardees list at the recently held 2022 Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) Fellowship Investiture. At the event, more than 20 senior executives of Sterling Bank were among… []

Sterling Reaffirms Commitment To Agriculture At Fifth ASA

– Mr. Abubakar Suleiman, CEO, Sterling Bank Plc Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sterling Bank Plc, Mr. Abubakar Suleiman has said the bank is ready and willing to invest more in Nigeria’s agricultural sector, having invested more than N100 billion; a figure that represents about 15 percent of the bank’s total loans portfolio. The CEO stated this in his closing remarks at the Agriculture Summit… []

Wema Bank grows earnings by 51% to N95.354 billion on loan growth

Nigeria’s most innovative bank and digital banking pioneer, Wema Bank Plc, has recorded gross earnings of N95.345 billion in the third quarter ended September 30, 2022, representing a growth of 51.17% year-on-year, from N63.077 billion posted during the same time in 2021. According to the bank’s unaudited financial results for the third quarter of 2022, the grow in gross earnings reflects an increase in loans… []

Unity Bank, Lagos Food Bank Partner to Donate Food Items to Lagos Community

In a massive collaborative initiative to support and promote interventions targetted to addressing hunger and malnutrition in communities, Agric lender, Unity Bank Plc and Lagos Food Bank have donated food items worth millions of Naira to Ogundimu Ilaje, a riverine community in the suburb of Lagos. A statement from the Bank adds that the intervention is part of the Bank’s strategic Corporate Social Responsibility aimed… []

Fidelity Partners SMEDAN To Empower SMEs

In what has been termed a major move to bridge the gap in helping small businesses access much needed funding and capacity development initiatives, leading financial institution Fidelity Bank Plc has announced a strategic partnership with the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (SMEDAN). At a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signing ceremony held in Lagos recently, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Fidelity Bank Plc, Mrs… []