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CEO Rowland Okorie Tips Clark Swanson As World Leader Project Nwafor Igbo

Ihesiulo Grace 15 June 2023 0

CEO Rowland Okorie of Equity Concepts is tipping his mentor Clark Swanson to be the World Project Leader of Project NWAFOR Igbo. A project focused at bringing massive development in the Eastern part of Nigeria mainly comprising five major states, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo. Mr.

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How The Shawn Exchange protects customers―CEO

Ihesiulo Grace 21 June 2022 0

Fears of hackers and scammers have been the bane of digital services but the CEO of The Shawn Exchange has given assurances that digital companies work endlessly to mitigate the problem. Using the Shawn Exchange as an example, its founder and CEO, Ajayi Oluwadamilare Michael said: “In a world of social media where it doesn’t […]

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Challenges of digital companies surmountable, says CEO of The Shawn Exchange

Ihesiulo Grace 21 June 2021 0

Every business will face a period of challenge in its early years according toAjayi Oluwadamilare Michael, the founder and CEO of The Shawn Exchange, a new digital service company. Drawing from his experience, he said: “Before I started The Shawn Exchange, I was into other businesses so I knew for sure that this business, like […]

Sports

BREAKING: Liverpool CEO, Peter Moore to leave the club

Ihesiulo Grace 31 July 2020 0

The 2019/20 Premier League season winner are set to have a change in leadership as Peter Moore is set to step down as the Chief Executive Officer for the current managing director Billy Hogan by end of August. Owners of the reds, Fenway Sport Group have refused to extend Moore’s contract after the end of […]

Business

FMDQ sponsors FMDA workshop on derivatives

Ihesiulo Grace 13 March 2019

Mathew Dadiya The FMDQ OTC Securities Exchange will be sponsoring the Financial Market Dealers Association, FMDA, Conference on deepening the derivatives market holding next week in Lagos. The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) Africa Chairman, Mr. Brett Gallie, Partner at Clifford Chance, Derivatives and Structured Trades, Mr. Matthew Grigg and

Business Capital Market

Why we are selling African Subsidiaries- Diamond Bank CEO

Ihesiulo Grace 6 November 2017 0

Diamond Bank Plc has agreed to sell its operations in Benin, Togo, Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal to Manzi Finances S.A., a Cote d’Ivoire-based financial services holding company. Regulatory approvals have been obtained in all jurisdictions for the transaction, which is anticipated to close before December 31, 2017. The bank which is one of Nigeria’s fastest […]

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[ICYMI] Onne Verde resigns as Dangote Cement CEO

Ihesiulo Grace 22 October 2017 0

…as company grows Q3 PAT by 44.6% Afolabi Adesola Onne Verde will step down from his position as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Dangote Cement Plc. (DCP) by the end of the 2017 financial year. This was disclosed by the company’s board of directors in a regulatory filing with the Nigerian Stock Exchange on […]

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DHL named top Employer among 18 African countries

Ihesiulo Grace 13 October 2017 0

DHL Express has been certified as a Top Employer in Africa for the fourth executive year, at the prestigious Top Employer Africa 2018 certification ceremony, held at Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on Thursday, 12 October 2017. Hennie Heymans, CEO, DHL Express Sub-Saharan Africa, explains that this is the fourth consecutive year that DHL has […]

Business Interviews

‘7,000 Megawatts is achievable in 2017’ – Afolabi

Ihesiulo Grace 8 January 2017 0

Dr Ade Afolabi is the Chairman/ CEO, Dansaki Petroleum Limited, an integrated oil company, aiming to grow from upstream through the midstream to the downstream. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, Fellow of Nigerian Institute of Mechanical Engineers, and the past council chairman of Society of Petroleum Engineers. In this interview with Simon […]

Aviation Business

Medview Airline rewards partners, staff as CEO expects better 2017

Ihesiulo Grace 27 December 2016 0

Chairman of Medview Airline, Alhaji Muneer Bankole, has urged the government not to relegate aviation to the back burner as it is the catalyst for growth everywhere in the world. This is even as he acknowledged that the year had not been particularly good for airlines with all the inherent challenges. Bankole called on the […]

Tech

Tim Jacobs Resumes as New CEO at MultiChoice

Ihesiulo Grace 30 April 2015 0

MultiChoice Africa, a South Africa-based pay-media company, has appointed Tim Jacobs as Chief Executive Officer to replace Nico Meyer who left the company last month for ‘personal reasons’. Tim Jacobs, a qualified accountant joined MultiChoice in 2013 as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of MultiChoice South Africa Holdings. He later became a member of the […]

Business Power & Energy

Investing in African Energy Sector, Critical to EU – Expert

Ihesiulo Grace 28 April 2015 0

Eni Oil and Gas Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr Claudio Descalzi, says that Africa has the potential to power the European Union in years to come. This is contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja by the CEO. Descalzi said global energy companies had a unique role to play in helping to […]

Entertainment

Kanye West and Kim Kardashian Listed among Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People

Ihesiulo Grace 22 April 2015 0

Both Kanye West and Kim Kardashian has joined a list of celebrities, icons and politicians on Time magazine’s list of 100 most influential people. The rapper is celebrated as a “titan” while his wife Kim Kardashian according to television personality, Martha Stewart, is a media phenomenon. She goes on to praise the reality television star  […]

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Transcript: IATA’s Director General and CEO at the IATA Ops Conference Los Angeles

Ihesiulo Grace 15 April 2015 0

Tony Tyler, IATA’s Director General and CEO, spoke at the IATA Ops Conference in Los Angeles yesterday, where he emphasized that aviation is safe and getting safer, while also noting that the past 13 months have been an extraordinary period. He recognized that the industry is in the spotlight globally and faces changing expectations for […]