Ethopia
Ethiopia: Safaricom Ethiopia to Go Operational in 2022
Safaricom Ethiopia PLC will start operating in 2022 as per the business license agreement, said Ministry of Finance. Discussing the progress and the ...
Kenya
Kenya: Octagon Africa, SaveApp Group partner to launch ‘Ukonga’ micro-savings App
Octagon Africa and SaveApp Group have partnered to launch a micro-savings solution dubbed Ukonga, a revolutionary platform that enables users to save their ...
Africa
Namibia: Bank Windhoek Wins Two International Awards
Bank Windhoek was recently recognised by the international Global Brands Magazine for exemplary work done for three of its local marketing campaigns. These ...
News
Nigeria: Access Bank CEO Herbert Wigwe named Best Banking CEO by Global Brands Award
The CEO and Group Managing Director, Access Bank, Herbert Wigwe has emerged as the Best Banking CEO in the recently concluded 2021 Global ...
News
South Africa: MTN warns on potential digital load shedding
Telecommunications company MTN has warned that the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s (Icasa’s) decision to take back temporary radio frequency spectrum on ...
News
Zenith Bank reports N40 billion in Oil and Gas loans are not performing
Nigeria’s largest bank by net asset, Zenith Bank disclosed in its half year Investor Presentation that 29.9% of its non-performing loans are oil ...
News
Access Bank to pay N10.7 billion interim dividend to shareholders for H1 2021
The Board of Directors of Access Bank Plc has earmarked a total sum of N10.7 billion as dividends to shareholders for the period ...
Africa
Africa: Bumpa raises $200k pre-seed to build e-commerce solutions for African merchants
Bumpa, an e-commerce solution startup helping African retailers manage and grow their businesses from their mobile phones, has closed a $200k pre-seed funding ...
Africa
Standard Chartered Is Now Part of The Global Digital Finance Alliance
By joining the Global Digital Finance, Standard Chartered became the first bank part of the association. The leading British financial institution – Standard ...
News
CBN appoints new directors
The Central Bank of Nigeria has confirmed the appointment of eight directors, including Osita Nwanisobi as the Director, Corporate Communications Department. Nwanisobi had ...