Capital Market

Ecobank’s Biggest Investor Wants CEO to Quit as Old Board Kept

Ecobank Transnational Inc.’s (ETI) biggest investor repeated a call for Chief Executive Officer Thierry Tanoh to quit after a shareholder meeting yesterday failed to resolve corporate governance issues. “We believe it is in the best interest of the company that he steps down,” Dan Matjila, chief investment officer of South […]

NSE Set to Slash Transaction Cost by Over N1bn

Press Release Investors in the Nigerian Capital Market are in for good times as The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE)has commenced the reduction of the cost of its Trade Alert service by about N1.24 billion from March 2014 via the scrapping of the current charge of 0.06% of every trade on […]

The World’s Billionaires: The Class of 2014

This year Forbes welcomes a record 268 first-time faces to our annual listing of the World’s Billionaires, including 42 women, the most ever. They minted their fortunes from social media in Silicon Valley, real estate in China, fashion in Nigeria and every combination in between. The largest contingent – 50 […]