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Nigeria: Risikatu Ahmed, ASO Savings CEO, bags CIBN Fellowship Award
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of ASO Savings and Loans Plc, Hajia Risikatu Ahmed, last Saturday bagged the Honourary Fellowship of the ...
Tanzania
Tanzania: Government to deepen financial services for Tanzanians
The Tanzanian government has planned a series of events and sessions aimed at disseminating public awareness on financial services in Tanzania. The programme ...
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Nigeria: CBN spends N3.9bn to destroy N4.13trn worth of dirty naira notes -Report
The Central bank of Nigeria (CBN) has revealed that in the last six years it spent N3.88 billion to throw away N4.13 trillion ...
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Zimbabwe: Zim Forex Inflows to Hit Record High
ZIMBABWE’S foreign currency earnings are poised to hit record high since 2010, spurred by mineral exports and diaspora remittances, the Reserve Bank of ...
Nigeria
Nigeria: CBN to blacklist Anchor Borrowers’ loan defaulters
The Central Bank of Nigeria has said farmers who fail to repay the loans collected under its Anchors Borrowers Programme will be barred ...
Africa
Ed-tech startup Semicolon Africa raises $1.2m in seed funding
Semicolon Africa, an ed-tech startup, creating employment and economic opportunities by training software engineers and techpreneurs, has closed a US$1.2 million seed round ...
South Africa
SA financial education startup FinMeUp raises seed funding
South African startup FinMeUp has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding to help it add a host of new features to its ...
Nigeria
Nigeria: MTN, Airtel gets regulatory approval to operate payment service bank
MTN Nigeria and Airtel Africa Plc have been granted an approval in principle to operate a payment service bank (PSB) in the country. ...
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Nigeria: Non-performing loans to Entrepreneurs almost 100% – BOI
“People believe that any money from the Bank of Industry that is owned by the government is part of the national cake,” BOI ...
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5G: MTN, Airtel want Nigeria’s $197 million licence fee slashed
MTN wants as much as 75 per cent cut and a validity period extension by 10 years. Wireless operators want a reduction in ...