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YNaija March 17, 2025

UBA, ICAN Partner to Drive Innovation, Excellence in Finance and Accounting

Africa’s Global Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc on Friday, hosted the 60th President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Chief Davidson C. S. Alaribe, FCA,…

Top 5 Stories Of The Day | Senate Approves Tinubu’s $21bn External Borrowing Plan for 2025–2026

YNaija October 24, 2024

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s win is a reminder that we have huge untapped potential in Nigerian women

Former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (NOI) has attained another first. As is to be expected, a litany of congratulatory messages to her for clinching the position of Director General of…

Sponsor May 27, 2019

How Segun Agbaje changed the face of banking with GTBank

When is a bank not a bank? That is a question Segun Agbaje, the multiple award-winning CEO and Managing Director of Nigeria’s Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank) has been getting to grips with as…

Editor November 22, 2017

The Film Blog: Ndani’s ‘Analyse This’ takes on the business of movie making

Ndani's 'Analyse This' has had a spectacular season. They changed hosts, bringing on Honey Ogundeyi who does a stellar job of steering conversations with their guests towards intelligent resolutions and…

Sponsor September 8, 2017

Fidelity Bank posts impressive audited half year results as profits soar by 66% to N10.2bn

Top Nigerian lender, Fidelity Bank recorded a very strong financial performance in the first half of 2017, posting impressive growth in profits, gross earnings and other indices for the six…

Ezinne August 25, 2017

The Thread: This is the secret to securing your financial future

Wondering how to become the next Bill Gates? Investments are the next best thing. But if Bill Gates is too tall an order, how about retirement savings? Manasseh Egedegbe lectures…

Sponsor August 14, 2017

Nigeria’s Mutual Funds attracts increased interest locally and internationally

Against the backdrop of increased interest and investments in Mutual Funds in Nigeria, Nigeria’s Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that total Asset Under Management (AUM) of mutual funds in…

Sponsor June 15, 2017

Union Bank launches UnionAccelerate, a zero-cost, high interest Savings account for medium-sized businesses

Union Bank has announced the launch of UnionAccelerate, a high-interest savings account with zero bank charges for medium-sized businesses. UnionAccelerate is a full-featured innovative banking solution that helps manage the challenges…

Sponsor May 16, 2017

Your tax, your child and the future

Nigeria is our motherland, but most Nigerians would have disowned their biological mothers if she did the same thing this country has been doing to her citizens. Although the government…

Tolu February 20, 2017

Stakeholders endorse TSA at anniversary retreat

Stakeholders drawn from all spheres of the Nigerian economy have pledged their support for the Federal Government’s Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy which has since its September 15, 2015 implementation…

Tolu February 15, 2017

[The Legislative Blog]: Did the Senate just uncover padding in the 2017 budget?

First of all, it comes as no surprise that this irregularity was found in the budget proposal of the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing headed by Mr Babatunde Fashola…

Op-ed Editor October 29, 2016

Opinion: Why should we borrow our future?

by Owolabi Afeez Ashola Recently, the Federal Government sent a letter to the National Assembly for matters classified as urgent with billions of dollars involved to be borrowed through international…

Tolu October 29, 2016

$29.96 billion, 33000 | 5 numbers that mattered this week

$29.96bn - The amount of loan the Federal Government of Nigeria plans to borrow from the World Bank, African Development Bank, Japan International Co-operation Agency, Islamic Development Bank and China…

Op-ed Editor October 25, 2016

Opinion: Why Nigeria Is Its Own Worst Enemy

by Calvin Ebun-Amu The IMF predicts a stronger Nigeria growing out of recession in 2017. Fitch Ratings projected growth of 2.6%, thus instilling confidence in many potential investors. The IMF…

Op-ed Editor October 17, 2016

Opinion: Planning your finances

by Oluwatosin Olaseinde The Nigerian Naira is the world's worst performing currency against the US Dollar. So why are we starting with the currency? Because it addresses the very reason of…

Op-ed Editor October 15, 2016

Opinion: What’s behind Africa’s growing love for digital finance?

by Calvin Ebun-Amu 2007, Kenya’s dominant cellular provider, Safaricom, launched M-Pesa. The service allowed users to send and receive digital payments anywhere in the country as easy as sending a…

Roqeebah October 1, 2016

Dangote, Emefiele and 5 other people to blame if Nigeria actually goes broke

Remember how they want Nigeria to sell her assets? It started on September 17th with billionaire, Aliko Dangote saying it is what he would have done if his company ever…

Op-ed Editor September 30, 2016

Opinion: A beginner’s guide to evaluating any investment

by Derin Adebayo So you have some free cash lying around (lol, I know…. let’s just pretend you do) and someone approaches you while you’re jogging and tells you about…

Mazi Emeka September 27, 2016

Entertainment Roundup: Lil Wayne gets minor victory in case against Birdman | Nollywood actor ‘arrested’ from his home and more

Here are some stories from yesterday and others that unravelled while you slept – and are now buzzing this morning in today’s Entertainment Roundup. Nollywood actor, Kalu Ikeagwu, kidnapped…