Capital Market

$100 Million Elumelu Entrepreneurship Funding Programme Kick-starts

Press Release Lagos, Nigeria, January 1st 2015 – The $100 Million Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme – an annual programme of training, funding and mentoring, designed to empower the next generation of African entrepreneurs – is now open for entries through its application portal  http://www.tonyelumelufoundation.org/teep The flagship entrepreneurship programme from the Tony Elumelu Foundation opens its application portal […]

Nigerian Breweries completes merger with Consolidated Breweries

Nigerian Breweries Plc says it has completed its merger with Consolidated Breweries Plc. According to company, the merger was finalised on December 31, 2014. The company said these in a statement by its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Nicolaas Vervelde. The statement explained that the merger was completed […]

Nigerian Stocks End Year Negatively, Year-to-Date Down 16.14%

By Peter OBIORA InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)- Year-to-Date (YTD) returns at the Nigerian bourse on Wednesday went down 16.14 percent as Nigerian stocks ended the year on a negative note with all-share index and market capitalisation declining 0.08 percent to close at 34,657.15 basis points and  N11.478 trillion respectively. According to the […]