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UBA CEO wins CEO of the Year Award

Press Release Lagos; 26/09/2013: The Group Managing Director of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Mr. Phillips Oduoza, has been named Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) 30 “CEO of the Year” by African Investor; one of the leading investment and specialist communications firm advising governments and businesses on investments in […]

Risk management in banks at rudimentary stage — CBN

The Central Bank of Nigeria on Wednesday said risk management practices among financial institutions in the country was still at a ‘rudimentary stage.’ The Deputy Governor, Financial System Stability, Dr. Kingsley Moghalu, in a keynote address at the Moody’s Analytics 2nd Annual West Africa’s Risk Management Conference in Lagos, said […]

Environmental Degradation: World’s Poorest Nations to be Hit Soonest-Lagarde

By Peter OBIORA InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Christine Lagarde, Managing Director (MD) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Tuesday at the United Nations in New York said that if environmental degradation is not checked, it can hurt the economy and the world’s poorest nations will be hit soonest and hardest. Lagarde said […]