Fidelity Bank's gross earnings rise by 45%, shareholders' funds cross N1trn mark
Fidelity Bank Plc has reported a 45 percent increase in gross earnings for the 2025 financial year, as the lender’s shareholders’ funds crossed the N1 trillion mark following sustained balance sheet expansion and fresh capital injection. Analysis from the audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2025, reveals that the bank delivered robust results…
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Polaris Bank Partners Cyclotron Club to Advance LiveWell Initiative and Promote Healthy Living
Polaris Bank, Nigeria’s leading digital retail and commercial Bank institution, has announced a strategic partnership with Cyclotron Cycling Development Initiatives, otherwise known as Cyclotron Club, to advance LiveWell by Polaris, the Bank’s flagship wellness initiative designed to promote healthy living, preventive healthcare, and overall wellbeing among employees…
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Union Bank Honoured by ASBON at Nigeria National SME Business Awards
Union Bank Honoured by ASBON at Nigeria National SME Business Awards Union Bank of Nigeria has reaffirmed its reputation as a strong supporter of Nigerian businesses, receiving the Best SME Growth Banking Initiatives Award for 2025 from the Association of Small Business Owners of Nigeria (ASBON) at the Nigeria National SME Business Awards, held recently in Lagos. T…
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NDLEA Arrest 3 Physically challenged persons for drug trafficking
A 60-year-old man Romanus Nwabara was among three persons with disability (PWD) arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for drug trafficking during interdiction operations in parts of Anambra and Kwara state. Based on credible intelligence, Nwabara was on Wednesday 6th May 2026 traced to Akpaka Forest, Onitsha where he was found wi…
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Banking Beond the Balance Sheet: Union Bank’s ASBON Recognition and Nigeria’s Small Business Economy
Union Bank of Nigeria has been named winner of the Best SME Growth Banking Initiatives Award (2025) at the Nigeria National SME Business Awards, organised by the Association of Small Business Owners of Nigeria (ASBON) in partnership with the Lagos State Government through the Ministry of Commerce, Cooperatives, Trade and Investment. The recognition arrives at a mom…
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Polaris Bank Supports the Launch of NACCIMA Call Center to Drive Growth for Nigerian Exporters
Polaris Bank, Nigeria’s leading digital retail and commercial bank, has proudly facilitated the launch of the NACCIMA Export Support Call Center, a vital initiative designed to provide comprehensive support to Nigerian exporters, especially those operating in the non-oil sector and enhance their ability to access global markets. This partnership marks a significant s…
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NDLEA arrests 83-year-old, 78-year-old grandpas for Drug Trafficking in Abia, Ekiti
- As NDLEA nabs notorious drug dealer in Ibadan; recovers large consignment of illicit substances in Lagos, Borno, Kaduna, Jigawa, Edo, Osun raids An 83-year-old grandfather, Pa John Ofiel and a 78-year-old grandpa, Ogunjobi Samuel were among suspects arrested in ongoing nationwide crackdown on illicit drug traffickers and dealers by operatives of the National Drug…
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Educating Nigeria, One Community at a Time: Inside Union Bank of Nigeria’s Approach to Corporate Responsibility
Nigeria's economic ambitions, whether higher productivity, a more competitive private sector, or stronger household resilience, all eventually run through the same bottleneck: the quality of the country's human capital. For a bank, that fact carries a quiet implication. The customers, entrepreneurs, and employees of the next two decades are sitting in classro…
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Ecobank and DHL Equip Nigerian SMEs to Compete Beyond Local Markets
...Participants hail programme as transformative and future-focused Ecobank Nigeria, in partnership with DHL, has successfully concluded a three‑week intensive capacity‑building programme aimed at equipping Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) with the skills, tools, and insights required to scale beyond local markets and compete globally. The programme brought togeth…
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Dangote Refinery Exports 1.1bn Litres of Aviation Fuel to Europe, Supplies 95% of Nigeria’s Jet A1 – AON
The Airlines Operators of Nigeria (AON) has described the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals as a critical pillar of support for Nigeria’s aviation industry, disclosing that the refinery currently supplies over 95 per cent of the Jet A1 fuel consumed nationwide, while also exporting 1.1 billion litres of aviation fuel to Europe between March and April 20. …
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Fidelity Bank Advocates for Inmates’ welfare with donation to Enugu Custodial Centre
Tier one lender, Fidelity Bank Plc has reaffirmed its commitment to health and social welfare with the donation of food and essential items to inmates at the Enugu Maximum Security Custodial Centre. The outreach was carried out by the newly inducted Legacy Class of 2026 and executed under the bank’s flagship Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) platform known as the…
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Please be careful, there’s WhatsApp scam going around - Access Bank warns
Scammers are currently impersonating Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, the Chairman of Access Holdings Plc, to trick people into fake investment schemes. They’ve created a WhatsApp group called *“Value Focus Club 60”* using this number: *+234 915 708 8290*, and even used his picture to make it look real. *Important things to know*: • The Chairman is NOT on WhatsApp running…
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Sterling Bank Deepens Commitment to Women Entrepreneurs with OneWoman Financing Dialogue
Sterling Bank, through its women focused initiative, OneWoman, convened a powerful gathering of women entrepreneurs, development finance institutions, ecosystem leaders, and business stakeholders at the Funding Her Future Breakfast Dialogue in Lagos. …
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NDLEA arrests Two for Shipping Cocaine in Palm Oil Tins
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have successfully dismantled a drug trafficking syndicate in high stakes intelligence led operations that lasted three weeks during which cocaine consignments concealed in tins of palm kernel extract heading to the United Kingdom were intercepted and the warehouse where the shipments are packaged raided w…
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Union Bank Looted: How former directors gambled with billions and nearly destroyed a national bank
The former directors and owners of Union Bank did not just fail, they engineered a financial disaster. They manipulated reports, hid massive losses, diverted foreign loans and treated depositors’ money like a private wallet. Investigators uncovered billions of dollars in misconduct. These directors buried over ₦250 billion in losses, piled a $300 million foreign loan…
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Fidelity Bank Partners Aircraft Finance Germany to Grow African Aviation Industry
Leading financial institution, Fidelity Bank Plc, has announced the signing of a strategic partnership agreement with Aircraft Finance Germany (AFG) to advance the aviation sector in Nigeria and across Africa by both organisations. The agreement was formally executed by Mr. Christian Hatje, Managing Director, Business Aviation and SVP Commercial, representing AFG; an…
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Family cries out as Ojokoro LCDA driver goes missing
The family of a driver with the Ojokoro Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Ifako, Ijaye, Lagos State, Mr Akintayo Olanrewaju, has raised the alarm over his disappearance, urging authorities to intensify efforts to find him. Olanrewaju, who works with the council as an official driver, was last seen on Friday morning after leaving home to retrieve a faulty officia…
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