TheQueen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition (QCEC), a cornerstone of literary culture and expression, invites young talents to participate in the 2024 edition. Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Commonwealth, this prestigious competition stands as the world’s oldest international writing contest, o...
The shares of UBA are publicly traded on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and the bank has a well-diversified shareholder base, which includes foreign and local institutional investors, as well as individual shareholders. Products UBA is a financial institution, offering a range of banking and ...
Nor have African governments been found wanting in recognising the potential of turning a primarily domestic food item into an internationally tradable hot foreign exchange (forex) earner. Nigerian states, like Delta, are putting some tax money behind some of the training programs. Ghana’s principal...
An interesting complication there is that we see that small businesses tend to get started by certain ethnic groups -- Chinese, Indians (from India), Jews, Arabs, Koreans, Nigerian Ibos, etc. This happens because starting and running a small business requires particular kinds ofknowledgewhich ar...
However, I did work with the Nigerian Ministry of Education when a team of their people came over to Oxford. Africa is still somewhere that fascinates me, although I have left it too late to go there again, at least in terms of working there, and it is in working abroad that I have...
“It is my humble plea that the President would consider this request for TETFund support of Nigerian private universities and this could be achieved by amending the enabling Law which established the body,” she said. In the same vein, the Chancellor, Alhaji Sayyu Dantata, said th...
The Nigerian music industry has been through a cylce of a high growth phase of the 70’s through the 80’s propelled by a booming oil economy to a state of general decline in the 90’s and the upswing from the early 2000’s to date.’Music in my Ears’ examines and chronicles the ...
the decline would not be smooth - a sudden outage, say a strike at a Nigerian platform, would destroy it. You mean a few more incidents like this? LAGOS (AFP) - Nigerian militants blew up a key oil supply pipeline operated by US oil group Chevron, slashing output by 120,000 barrels ...
A Nigerian oil workers' strike that has halted production at Exxon Mobil Corp.'s local unit entered its eighth day with talks between union leaders and management scheduled to resume at noon local time, a union official said. The industrial action has cut crude output by 860,000 barrels a...
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, CORPORATE STRATEGY AND CORPORATE PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS LISTED ON THE NIGERIAN STOCK EXCHANGE The study aimed at proving that corporate governance structures should work in tandem with other stakeholders of the company to fashion a robust corporate strateg...