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Tripple Gee Appoints Omotola Osunkiyesi new Managing Director

By Yakubu LAAH InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Triple Gee & Company Plc on Monday announced the appointment of a new managing director (MD) Omotola Akinwole with effect from May 02, 2014. The company in a notice to the Nigerian stock exchange (NSE) said with the appointment of Osunkiyesi as the new    […]

Pfizer walks away from $118 billion AstraZeneca takeover attempt

Pfizer said on Monday it had abandoned its current attempt to buy AstraZeneca for nearly 70 billion pounds ($118 billion) as a deadline approached without a last-minute change of heart by the British drugmaker. Pfizer had until 5.00 pm (1200 ET) on May 26 to make a firm offer or […]

Skye Bank Targets 22 Percent ROE by 2017

Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Peter OBIORA, Online Editor at InvestAdvocate in his usual manner on May 22, 2014 captured a Question and Answer Session with the management of Skye Bank Plc at its pre-annual general meeting media chat with business editors and other financial journalists. Below are excerpts of the Q & A […]