BUSINESS

UBA Upgrades Mobile App, Introduces Exciting New Features for Customers

LAGOS: United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, a Pan African financial institution, has upgraded its mobile banking application, introducing lots of exciting and interactive features to aid banking, whilst allowing customers to perform unlimited transactions with simple taps on their mobile phones. The award winning innovative Bank which was the …

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Pushing E-Commerce Frontiers As COVID-19 Enters Community Transmission Stage In Nigeria

By Ayomide Oriade LAGOS: As fear heightens over probable backlash of relaxed lockdown in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun States amidst frightening community transmission of Coronavirus (COVID-19), e-Commerce remains the most practical and safest method for curtailing the virus and driving social distancing. The relaxation of lockdown in Abuja, Lagos and …

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Jumia, Mastercard Incentivize Consumers To Use Cashless Payments For Essential Products In Africa

LAGOS: Jumia, Africa’s leading e-commerce platform and Mastercard on Monday, May 11, 2020 announced a partnership to incentivize the use of cashless payments platforms as people look for safer ways to pay in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a press release e-signed and made available to StarTrend …

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COVID-19: Government Must Make Policies To Curb Community Transmission As Lockdown Is Lifted

Opinion: By Ayomide Oriade  LAGOS: Clearly, Nigeria has climbed the plateau of Coronavirus crisis with the daily upsurge in the confirmed cases and deaths. Nearly the entire 36 states, including Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are on the infected case chart. COVID-19 contagion is now at the community transmission …

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IMF Asks Nigeria To Keep Receipts Of How It Spend $3.4 Billion Emergency Financial Assistance

Kristalina Georgieva, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has urged the Nigerian government to keep the receipts of the $3.4 billion emergency financial assistance. Georgieva, who gave the advice on Tuesday, May 5, 2020 in an interview with CNBC Africa, disclosed that the IMF had already disbursed …

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Could The FIRS Be Asking Too Much? 

Opinion: By Tunji Andrews The circular from the Executive Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Muhammad Nami, to taxpayers over payment of taxes, is one that has left me heavily puzzled. The circular, which gave an update on the good work by the federal government on palliative measures to …

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Access Bank Is Set To Open 10 ‘CLOSA’ Branches

LAGOS: As part of its commitment to increase customers’ access to banking services in communities across the country, Access Bank has concluded plans to commission 10 Access ‘CLOSA’ outlets in 6 cities in Nigeria. According to a press release e-signed and made available to StarTrend Int’l magazine & www.startrendinternational.com by Esther …

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Coronavirus Stimulus Checks: 120 Million Americans Have Received Money

DENITSA TSEKOVA Around 120 million Americans have received their stimulus check payments, according to the latest information from the Treasury Department. “Economic Impact Payments are being delivered to Americans in record time — the first 120 million payments delivered in less than three weeks,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Yahoo Money on Monday. Social …

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Shareholders Commend Access Bank’s 2019 Performance at AGM

LAGOS: It was commendation galore at the 31st Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Access Bank Plc held in Lagos as shareholders hailed the Board of Directors, Management and Staff of the  of the Bank for the highly impressive performance for the  2019 financial year. According to a press release e-signed and made available …

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Covid-19: MSMEs Sustainability and Risky World of Delivery Agents

By Segun Koiki LAGOS: In many countries around the world, doctors, nurses, lab scientists and other frontline health workers in battle against Coronavirus are being celebrated and honoured. They deserve the honour as our heroes, who put their lives at risk so we can live as the world continues to …

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