LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The Western Union Company, a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement, has appointed Mohamed Touhami el Ouazzani as Regional Vice President and Head of North, Central and West Africa, based in Casablanca to lead Western Union’s business in the region with focus on expanding digital money transfer, reinforce the retail agent…
LAGOS APRIL 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Banks, telcos, ministries of finance, central banks and leaders in the banking industry from 10 nations across the West African region are set to gather in Lagos at The Future Banking Technology Summit to discuss efforts aimed at increasing financial inclusion in the sub-region by 2020. A statement made available To NewsRangers…
By Dr. Mudashiru Olaitan LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dr. Mudashiru Olaitan is currently the Director of the Development Finance Department, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). He is charged with the responsibility of implementing the development finance initiatives which involves the formulation and implementation of various policies, innovation of appropriate products and creation of enabling environment for…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Reports already predicted Ghana as the fastest-growing economy in the world this year, according to the IMF. The lender’s growth forecast of 8.8 per cent for the producer of cocoa, gold and oil dwarfs the 6.6 per cent median in a media survey. The West African country is expected to become the…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)— Speaking at a high-level dialogue in Washington D.C. on the sidelines of the World Bank-IMF Spring meetings, the President of the African Development Bank Akinwumi Adesina, said “It is time to turn around the declining investments of the U.S. in Africa. As the world’s private sector leader, the United States has…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Shell Companies in Nigeria have emerged the International Oil Company with the most impactful Local Content Initiatives in the upstream category at the 2019 edition of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Opportunity Fair (NOGOF) held in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State on April 4, 2019. Shell beat other competitors ,Total and Exxon Mobil to…
LAGOS APRIL TH (NEWSRANGERS)-LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria is building a new deep-seaport and considering two additional facilities to ease congestion at Apapa seaports, which currently handle about 80 per cent of all shipping traffic in the country. A new facility is already under construction in the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos through a public-private…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 40 leaders in the banking industry in West Africa region will gather in Lagos, Nigeria between the coming 23 -24 April, to discuss efforts aiming to increase financial inclusion across West Africa region by 2020 in the Future Banking Tech West Africa Summit. The first of its kind event…
