Author: InvestAdvocate

Seven-Up Bottling Increase Dividend 14 Percent, Offers N2.50 Kobo

By Yakubu LAAH InvestAdvocateLagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Soft drink makers, Seven-Up Bottling Company Plc has increased its dividend payout to investors of the company for the financial year ended March 31, 2014 by 14 percent as it proposed a N2.50 kobo per share dividend. The soft drink maker paid N2.20 kobo in the […]

UBA introduces Twitter transaction notification service

United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has introduced twitter based transaction alerts for customers. The bank has announced   that customers will now have the option of receiving transaction alerts in their Twitter direct messages inbox. Before now customers can only receive transaction alerts as text messages on their mobile phones and […]

Nigeria slow in poverty reduction – World Bank

Nigeria is slow in the process of reducing poverty and faces the challenge of leveraging oil resources to promote sustained inclusive growth and reduce poverty, inequality and unemployment. The World Bank made these assertions in its Nigeria Country Partnership Strategy 2014-2017, which was released in Abuja on Monday. The bank […]