Fidelity Bank Plc Signs The UN Principles For Responsible Banking

Fidelity Bank Plc has become an official signatory of the UN Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) – a single framework for a sustainable banking industry developed through a collaboration between banks worldwide and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). The Principles are the leading framework for ensuring that banks’ strategy and practice align with the vision society has set out for its future in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement. Banks who have signed the Principles commit to be ambitious in their sustainability…

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Nigeria’s 2024 Budget: Speech Of President Tinubu Budget Presentation At National Assembly

In furtherance of my sacred duties and obligations as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, it is my honour to be here today to present my administration’s 2024 Budget Proposal to this Joint Session of the 10th National Assembly. This moment is especially profound and significant to me because it is my first annual budgetary presentation to the National Assembly. Distinguished Senators and Honourable Members of the National Assembly, I commend your swift consideration and passage of the 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bills and the 2024-2026 Medium Term Expenditure Framework…

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There Is No Alternative To Partnership With Stakeholders Financial Sector Stability – NDIC’s Bello Hassan

The 20th edition of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) Workshop for Business Editors and members of the Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria (FICAN), which began on Wednesday November 29, in Owerri, the capital of Imo State, provided another rare opportunity to harness information regarding policy direction of the Corporation to deal with challenges confronting the Agency in the discharge of its responsibility. No doubt, the NDIC has worked tirelessly in promoting stability in the financial system and some notable achievements have modestly recorded over a period of time. In…

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REVEALED: Hadi Sirika’s Nigeria Air Deal With Ethiopian Would Have Ruined Domestic Airlines – Keyamo

By NewsBits Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo SAN, has expressed concerns over aspects of the deal signed between his predecessor, Hadi Sirika, on behalf of the Federal Government and Ethiopian Air over Nigeria’s proposed national carrier. Nigerians watched helplessly as Sirika, the immediate past Aviation Minister at the last minute of the former President Muhammadu Buhari’s unpopular administration tried to allegedly swindle the Nigerian aviation sector with the hoax of a deal that would have meant the end of domestic airlines. It is still worrisome to…

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