Seed capital for expansion is becoming increasingly challenging for businesses to locate. Understanding the critical importance of funding to Nigerian business owners and entrepreneurs, Start-Up Digest, in its characteristic manner, has dug up some of the places where entrepreneurs can access funds for their businesses. Finance is the fuel that…
Access Bank Plc shareholders on Thursday commended the board and management for the consummation of its merger with Diamond Bank and payment of dividend to both shareholders. The shareholders stated this in Lagos at the bank’s 30th Annual General Meeting (AGM) for the financial year ended Dec. 31, 2018. Speaking…
The French government has signed a development finance agreement with Tony Elumelu Foundation, TEF, for development finance and entrepreneurship in Africa. The agreement worth one billion Euros was executed yesterday in Lagos at the instance of the French President, Emmanuel Macron, who announced the deal yesterday during a talk show…
DIAMOND Bank Plc said it has committed N105 million in seven years in grants to support budding entrepreneurs in the country through its Building Entrepreneurs Today, BET, programme. The Diamond Bank’s BET programme is a six month intensive entrepreneurial training of 50 budding entrepreneurs every year from select sectors of the…
Chairman,Accion Microfinance Bank Limited, AMfB, Mr. Patrick Akinwuntan, in this interview on the sidelines of the bank’s annual general meeting speaks about the performance of the bank in the 2017 financial year and the bank’s effort to weather challenges confronting the subsector. Excerpt: WHAT are the facts behind the…
The Federal Inland Revenue Service, the Joint tax Board and the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria have entered into a partnership to improve the level of voluntary tax compliance by operators in the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises sector. The collaboration was sealed during a meeting that…
